Category: Arts Entertainments

After a nearly year-long and highly publicized search, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has appointed its…

This week, the New Museum in New York City announced its temporary closure through early 2025 for a site expansion…

Thousands of Palestinian families are looking to evacuate into Egypt as the Israeli military has forced over a million civilians…

New Red Order: Jackson Polys (Tlingit), Adam and Zack Khalil (Ojibwe) with Riley Hooker, The World’s Unfair series (2023), posters…

‣ Powerhouse photorealist painter and longtime New York artist Audrey Flack, now 92 and still painting, talks with Curbed‘s Wendy…

A new bill introduced in the United States Congress yesterday, March 20, aims to establish a Smithsonian museum of American…

Ryan RedCorn and Ashley Richards (Osage/Otoe), “Make The World Better” (2009), silkscreen on paper, 20 x 34 inches (courtesy Ryan…

Lesia Khomenko, “I’m a Bird II” (2023–24), acrylic on canvas, 47 1/4 x 35 7/8 inches (all photos by Michael…

Yong Soon Min, “Defining Moments No. 2” (1992), silver gelatin print, lacquered wood frame, 20 3/8 x 16 3/8 x 1…

Over the recent Lunar New Year weekend, I attended the opening and panel discussion for the exhibition Scratching at the…

Archaeologists excavating at the ancient Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in southern Turkey have uncovered the remains of unbaked, leavened bread…

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Emily Hall Tremaine and Steingrim Laursen of Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Kimball Art Museum in 1976. (photo via the Archives…

Bree Gilliam, “There Goes the Neighborhood” (2022), oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches (courtesy the artist; image courtesy the…

Patrick Moore will be resigning as director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, effective May 2024. In a…

Damien H. Ding, “IM Pei Dreaming” (2023), egg tempera on aluminum, 36.875 x 30.875 inches framed (all images courtesy Steven…

While a TikTok ban looms in the United States, we decided to dedicate this week’s edition to what we culled…

First Look is the Museum of the Moving Image’s annual celebration of experimental cinema. This year’s edition features an intriguing…

Ever since Sanford Wurmfeld began exhibiting in the mid-1960s, he has rigorously investigated the ways the viewer can experience color…

The United States House of Representatives unanimously voted yesterday, March 12, to move forward with a bill that could result…

Charles Gaines, “Faces 1: Identity Politics, #10, Edward Said” (2018) on view at the ICA Miami on March 7 (photo…

As the Whitney Museum’s signature event, the Biennial is a highly anticipated exhibition that often acts as a barometer of…

VIENNA — History Tales. Fact and Fiction in History Painting, an exhibition that draws on the rich collection of the…

Mark Rothko, “Yellow Band” (1956), oil on canvas, 86 1/10 × 79 1/2 inches, Sheldon Museum of Art (all photos…

Having collaborated for more than three decades across visual and print media, artists Kent Monkman (Fisher River Cree Nation) and…

Over a dozen artists and UrbanGlass workers withdrew their work from a group exhibition at the Brooklyn institution after its…

As a curator, writer, and artist, my work is grounded in storytelling. Contextualizing the work of artists past and present…

LOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 organizers, artists, and film workers gathered in Hollywood today, March 10, to call for…

Members of the activist group Palestine Action spray-painted and slashed a portrait of British former Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour…

This spring, SITE Santa Fe presents three exhibitions featuring the works of Carmen Herrera, Arturo Herrera, and Erin Shirreff. Arturo…

Posted inSponsored Exhibition Announcement Japan Society explores the origins of Zen Buddhism over four centuries of work from painter-monks, including…

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Interim CEO Sara Fenske Bahat has resigned as the institution’s galleries remain closed…

‣ For the New Yorker, Manvir Singh takes a deep dive into Dune’s fictional language, or “conlang” (and why the…

Approximately 30 demonstrators disrupted the opening of Israeli artist Michal Rovner’s exhibition Pragim at Manhattan’s Pace Gallery tonight, March 7.…

Sarah Grilo, “America’s going…” (1967), oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 26 inches (© The Estate of Sarah Grilo; image…

Next year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, yet the world still finds itself in…

Sheida Soleimani, “Noon-o-namek (bread and salt)” (2021), archival pigment print, 62 x 45 5/8 inches (all images courtesy the artist…

Art collectors Lorenzo Legarda Leviste and Fahad Mayet have withdrawn quilt works by Loretta Pettway from an exhibition at London’s…

Less than a year after the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) declared bankruptcy and shuttered its doors, a new nonprofit…

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Phillip Allen’s paintings are paradoxes that have stayed with me ever since I first saw his work in 2013 at…

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when you finish one art book, a dozen more pop up in its place.…

LOS ANGELES — “I have a deep skepticism of the art market, with its structure predicated on privilege, wealth, class,…

LOS ANGELES — In pouring rain, a group of 20 unaffiliated cultural workers gathered to protest the United States’s continued…

LOS ANGELES — When I heard that the latest performance from dance collective Volta was going to explore the subject…

Spring is finally peeking through the cold and clouds and New York galleries and museums are in full bloom with…

LOS ANGELES — There’s a perennial booth rule at Spring/Break Art Show: “No white walls.” This directive gave the warehouse…

LOS ANGELES — It’s my fourth rodeo at Felix Art Fair, which sets up its booths inside the poolside cabanas at…

A screenshot from the “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” website (left) and a photo from the actual event (right) (screenshot Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic,…

Gazan artist Fathi Ghaben died on Sunday, February 25 from health complications after Israeli authorities refused to give him permission…

A Welsh man has accused arts and craft retail chain Hobbycraft of racial profiling him after staff at the store’s…

As an artist-curator whose practice is focused on death and dying, I’m deeply invested in the work of my peers.…

Every year, Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown hosts the city’s biggest celebration of the Lunar New Year in an elaborate parade that…

In a curatorial coincidence, three current exhibitions across lower Manhattan are addressing the ecological devastation of the Amazon, raising awareness…

Front (left) and back (right) of Annibale Carracci and students, “The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalen / Sketches of figures” (c.…

Albrecht Dürer, “Self-Portrait at 28” (1500), oil on lime, 26 2/5 x 19 1/5 inches; held by Alte Pinakothek, München,…

CHICAGO — Black women in general experience the world differently from those who are not Black and female. It’s a…

Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 “Chair With Pipe,” on view at Britain’s National Gallery in London. (via Wikimedia Commons) The National…

Thousands of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) organizers and allies marched over several blocks toward the American Israel Public Affairs…

The average pedestrian on a city stroll is more likely to notice the tall, flowering trees they see above them…

New York City’s spring art fair season is almost upon us, and this year’s lineup promises another busy few months.…

‣ Reporting for New Lines Magazine, Matthew Petti finds out that a fanatical Israel settlement is being funded by suburbanites on…

Greece Culture Minister Lina Mendoni lambasted the British Museum after the Parthenon Marbles were used as a “backdrop” for a…

In my time presenting Chicano/Latino/Latinx prisoner art in museums, visitors have expressed enthusiasm that is frequently coupled with confusion over…

Yale University has issued an official apology in response to findings related to the school’s historical ties to slavery. The…

LOS ANGELES — In just over a week, three art fairs will be popping up throughout Los Angeles: Frieze at…

BEVERLY HILLS — When Joey Terrill tested positive for HIV in 1989, he assumed he had only a short time…

LONDON — “No, not that way,” the young man behind the press table tells me as I head toward the…

“He’s acting like he wants to buy me,” a flapper scowls at her shady landlord, her glossy black bob trembling.…

Eight artists defaced their own artwork on display at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) during a pro-Palestine…

NEW YORK — Nearly three years ago, on March 16, 2021, a gunman killed eight people, six of whom were…

Today, February 16, the curators of the Berlinale international film festival’s Forum Expanded program joined artists’ expressions of solidarity with…

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles has become home to three new art fairs over the past few years, including multi-national…

Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory may be the most romantic of New York City’s art fair venues. The historic building boasts…

Two stubborn misconceptions that persist in American media about women who change the world are that they are (a) Western,…

‣ KVOA in Tucson, Arizona, reported that Nkechi Diallo, formerly Rachel Dolezal, lost her job over her OnlyFans account. 2024 is…

Arts Council England (ACE), a governmental funding body for the promotion of the nation’s arts sector, has informed its grant…

A clay model shows a couple kissing. The work is dated approximately 1800 BCE, originating from Mesopotamia. (© The Trustees…

Pro-Palestine protesters disrupted a performance by Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof on Saturday, February 10,…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Amid “flyover country,” as it’s colloquially and insultingly referred to, in an unendingly flat city nicknamed “Cowtown,”…

Everyone deserves a good death. This is a common phrase used in the deathcare field. It speaks to the humanity…

If paño arte is the private-facing practice of artists serving time in penitentiaries across the United States, then artepaño encompasses…

Artist Danielle De Jesus grew up near the intersection of Jefferson Street and Knickerbocker Avenue in a Puerto Rican household…

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan unexpectedly closed its galleries to the public at around 3:45pm Saturday, February…

From reframing how the art world sees art made in prison to Indigenous print design, we’re excited to share what our…

‣  After a speaker shared the title of his talk on Gaza for a London Review of Books lecture series,…

Death is one of life’s few universal experiences. As long as people are born, people will die. And as long…

I first encountered paño arte, intricate ink or pencil drawings on handkerchiefs created by incarcerated Chicanos, as a boy in…

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) drew criticism online on Sunday, January 21, after its Director-General Eli Eskozido posted an Instagram…

The Year of the Dragon commences on Saturday, February 10, marking a new cycle in the lunar calendar. The event…

BERLIN and PARIS — In recent years, impending ecological apocalypse has spurred a number of contemporary artists to visualize fears…

This month, we’re turning to books that spark questions and crack open new possibilities, with digital culture on our minds…

I’ve been thinking about absence since last spring, when I visited a patch of churned dirt at Health Sciences Park…

“MY WORK HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY FAITHFUL TO ME,” reads an emphatic text in a 1997 print by Joan Snyder. It…

Walking into Company Gallery in Soho late last year felt like walking into a faerie wonderland. During a casual Wednesday…

Barrow Parke, “Shapes in Time” (2022), acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen, 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches (image courtesy…

Onassis AiR invites artists, curators, designers, theater makers, activists, writers, choreographers, performers, architects, creative coders, filmmakers, and other practitioners working…

There’s nothing like springtime in New York City, blooming with color, people, and things to do. Museums, galleries, and public…

A man died after falling from the Tate Modern building in London on Friday morning, February 2. In a statement…

From Pointillism to stippling, Ben Day to halftones, the compilation of dots to construct an image can be traced through…

‣ There’s a cottage industry for everything: ‣ Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts, and Jeffrey Watumull wrote an opinion piece for the New…

1. Pacita AbadBasco, Philippines, 1946-2004, Singapore 2. Mariam Abdel-AleemAlexandria, Egypt, 1930–2010 3. Etel AdnanBeirut, Lebanon, 1925–2021, Paris, France 4. Sandy…

Contemporary printmaker and designer Lisa Hunt, who was celebrated for her intricately precise gold leaf artistry and expanding studio practice,…

Wilder Alison’s knit kite (all images courtesy This Long Century) Wilder Alison’s knit kite (all images courtesy This Long Century)…

Artemisia Gentileschi, “Judith and her Maidservant” (1618–19), oil on canvas, 44 x 36.61 inches In the Book of Judith, the…

“When I sued Richard Prince more than seven years ago, it was hard to imagine I’d be, along with Donald…

Visual artist, musician, and filmmaker Laurie Anderson is the latest target of Germany’s crackdown on speech critical of Israel. After…

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — The story of the Brazilian art movement Generation 80 is often told as a return to…

The past few years have been busy for multidisciplinary Anishinaabe, French and Canadian artist Caroline Monnet, from completing a feature…

‣ For History Today, Isabella Rosner tells the story of Annie Parker, a 19th-century artist who was frequently incarcerated and crafted…

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) has canceled an exhibition focused on the legacy of art historian Michael Fried’s…

Taqralik Partridge has departed from Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), becoming the second Indigenous curator to exit the Canadian…

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City will shutter two expansive galleries showcasing Native objects tomorrow,…

Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher are cheerleaders of the Hudson Valley, a growing art scene that flowers with galleries, artist-run…

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has released the list of artists in the 81st edition of…

Carl Andre, the mid-20th century Minimalist sculptor whose legacy is clouded by allegations that he murdered Cuban artist Ana Mendieta,…

Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault and harassment. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call…

Malavika Rao, “dream home” (2023), gouache on paper, 29 x 22 inches, one of the works withdrawn from the MFA…

As part of its new initiative, Lunder Institute @, the Colby College Museum of Art’s Lunder Institute for American Art…

Most of the time that Tomashi Jackson is creating art, she says that she doesn’t know what the final product…

On view now through March 16, Pratt Manhattan Gallery’s new exhibition, The New Village: Ten Years of New York Fashion,…

I was surprised how soon James Siena had his second exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery, following his first in late…

Workers at Jack Shainman Gallery were so engrossed in preparing for their grand opening last Friday afternoon that they didn’t…

Tulsa Artist Fellowship, a place-based, durational award that aims to support visionary arts practitioners, is now accepting applications for its…

“The Simpsons predicted it” is by now such a popular adage that there are lists upon lists for apparent Simpsons…

Leaders from over 30 arts institutions across New York City are urging Mayor Eric Adams to restore funding to the…

Blake, a successful musician, has recently escaped rehab to return home. The safety of his house is soon disrupted by…

‣ Programming around a new Rothko exhibition in DC aims to illuminate the artist’s musical influences, including Mozart. Michael Andor Brodeur…

Low-ResidencyA truly nomadic institution, the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) fuses interactive online education with intensive…

One of Rose Marasco’s goals in her photographs is to chronicle “the actual and symbolic significance of everyday household objects,”…

Graham Shay 1857  presents two cohesive exhibitions, on view together in our main gallery showroom, for the 2024 edition of Master…

Italian authorities are investigating junior culture minister and art critic Vittorio Sgarbi, accused of owning and displaying a 17th-century painting…

Posted inSponsored Choose from over 50 Adult Continuing Education courses at one of the top art schools in the US,…

Posted inCrosswords A hint for the first mini art crossword of the new year: 2- and 3-Down are both too…

Alexandra Rubinstein, “The Venus Trap” (2023), menstrual blood on canvas, 40 x 40 inches (image courtesy the artist and Kravets…

LONDON — The National Gallery has brought together an oil painting and pastel version of the same composition, known as…

Posted inSponsored Opportunities NYC-based artists who identify as AAPI are invited to submit outdoor banner designs for the museum. The…

Joyce Jeffrey’s photo of Annie Chapati for her 2010 series Knot Bad (all photos courtesy the Charles H. Wright Museum…

Only one year ago, Twitter (now X) announced that paid users on the site could set an NFT as their…

Hundreds of artists and cultural workers around the world signed a petition calling to boycott German cultural institutions in response…

Richard Artschwager (1923–2013) was 42 when he had his first solo show. The exhibition, which was at Leo Castelli gallery,…

Artist Samia Halaby (photo via Wikimedia Commons) Over 1,300 people have signed a petition urging Indiana University at Bloomington (IU)…

William Matthew Prior, “Mrs. Nancy Lawson” (1843), oil on canvas (© Shelburne Museum; image courtesy the Shelburne Museum) William Matthew…

Shepard Fairey poster based on an image taken by Palestinian photojournalist Belal Khaled in Gaza on November 8, 2023 (all…

Musée de la Villa les Camélias in Cap d’Ail, France, presents La révélation de Meyreuil, an exhibition of 50 small…

Sandro Botticelli, “The Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist” (“Madonna of the Rose Garden”) (c. 1468),…

What’s a New Year’s resolution list without some art books in the mix? For our first art reads of 2024,…

“Funny how plastic never seems to go away, except for when you want it to stay,” Paola Antonelli, senior curator…

Many people dream of building an enduring creative legacy, one which will outlast them and forever imprint itself into the…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is deaccessioning a rare oil painting of George Washington, which could sell…

LOS ANGELES — A planned art museum in Las Vegas hopes to establish itself as a major cultural center, succeeding where…

LONDON — True to the zeitgeist of championing women in the arts, 2023 museum programming has consciously put female artists…

Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their work. Subscribe…

An edition of Koloman Moser’s “Frommel’s Calendar” (c. 1912) at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (© Museum Associates/LACMA) New…

Planning on sleeping in on Public Domain Day? Well … Wake up and smell the unbridled access to another novel…

The Eiffel Tower closed to the public today, December 27, after unionized staffers went on strike to protest the tower…

‣ The Maya Train, a highly contentious project, has officially opened in Mexico. Andrea Sachs explains the railway’s threats to the…

In Hyperallergic parlance, “powerless” conjures a very specific status. Historically, our Powerless 20 list has shone a light on those…

In the midst of a hyper-charged news cycle throughout 2023, we still managed to see a lot of art and…

See for yourself why Pratt is one of the top 10 art and design colleges in the world! Our experienced…

The five-pointed parol has long been a symbol of the holiday season in the Philippines. The star-shaped lanterns are crafted…

A portrait of Pope.L (photo by Peyton Fulford, courtesy Modern Art London) Artist Pope.L, who worked across the interdisciplinary fields…

This month, the world lost the extraordinary gallery owner Margarete Roeder, known as one of the sharpest eyes of the…

Well, 2023 was quite a year. For our part, we are proud of our reporting and the critical lens we…

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — Looking for the hottest club in town? Ask your grandma. “Grandma Nightclub,” a cozy two-seater bar…

LOS ANGELES — In The American Way of Death, first published in 1963, author Jessica Mitford critiqued the United States…

On a crisp December morning, Seeta Chiang loaded around 20 artworks by various Chinese artists on a small truck. The…

SAN FRANCISCO — Every few months, a custodian at Greg Lamarche’s elementary school in Queens would climb up to the…

Left: Marie Ucci, “The Shape of Dreams” (2023), acrylic, canvas, dryer lint, felted wool, dried fruit and vegetables, leaves, ceramic…

In London, a new anti-war artwork by the British street artist Banksy was stolen less than an hour after he…

In the 1960s the Hudson River coastline below Chambers Street was the site of deserted and dilapidated docks. As the…

With Christmas upon us, many observers of the Christian holiday commemorate the season with reconstructions of the famed Nativity scene,…

It’s time for a holiday edition of our column of new and noteworthy video essays! Granted, none of these videos…

‣ If you couldn’t make it to the epic Vermeer retrospective earlier this year at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam … well,…

The first known painting by Vincent van Gogh to depict the outdoors is joining the collection of The Metropolitan Museum…

The James Webb Space Telescope’s new photo of Uranus (all images courtesy NASA) Uranus may not be the butt of…

Did you enthusiastically agree to and then completely forget about your friend’s white elephant gift exchange? Are you scrambling to…

PRINCETON, New Jersey — As I wander through the solo exhibition Threading Memories / MiKyoung Lee, I feel a rising…

LOS ANGELES — Long before reality television series like the ever-popular Naked and Afraid, true crime shows, and WWE and…

This December, the New Bedford Whaling Museum revealed the groundbreaking restoration of one panel from Charles Sidney Raleigh’s “Panorama of…

David Diao loves pure abstract painting as embodied by the highly revered work of Barnett Newman and Kasimir Malevich, even…

Centuries ago, in 2022, the FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art and hauled away 25 fake Basquiats that had…

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), artist Yuan Goang-Ming, and curator Abby Chen are pleased to announce Everyday War, the…

An ancient larger-than-life sandstone Buddha head, a bronze sculpture of a seated Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, and a 10th-century goddess statuette from…

As workers and tourists traversed the cobblestone streets of Lower Manhattan today, December 15, about 20,000 red paper poppies rested…

“Draped Male Figure” (circa 150 BCE–200 CE) at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In a previous description on the museum’s…

‣ This week in art market shenanigans, a British couple avoids paying millions in inheritance taxes by donating a Renaissance bronze…

We’re not sure what we like more — giving or getting books — but we do know they make perfect…

Us explaining to our moms what a 2023 meme looks like (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) As we close the…

Posted inSponsored Opportunities This residency at the University of Michigan offers a $20,000 honorarium, housing, studio space, and up to…

The holiday season has always been more than just a special time to spend with loved ones, as corporations seize…

HMong* indigeneity is complicated by centuries of political conflicts, displacement, erasure, and disorientation in HMong homelands of China and Southeast…

Morgan Patten’s signs reading “Zionism is Fascism” and “Free Palestine” (all images courtesy Morgan Patten) In mid-October, amid Israel’s deadly…

NXTHVN is pleased to announce the opening of its annual open call for Studio and Curatorial Fellows. Founded by Titus…

After receiving many incredible proposals for the Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, we’re proud to announce this year’s…

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has appointed art historian and curator Duygu Demir to the post of Curator of…

The guerrilla action involving twenty activists at the Brooklyn Museum yesterday, December 8, was merely a drop in the bucket…

MIAMI BEACH — As fair visitors flowed in and out of the Miami Beach Convention Center on the third day…

Around 20 pro-Palestinian protesters held a guerilla action at the Brooklyn Museum today, December 8, ahead of a mass protest…