New Yorkers Aren’t Thrilled About the New Museum’s Expansion
This week, the New Museum in New York City announced its temporary closure through early 2025 for a site expansion that has been in the works since 2008. The project will encompass the since-razed property adjacent to its current SANAA-designed…
Raising Funds to Help a Family of 10 Exit Gaza
Thousands of Palestinian families are looking to evacuate into Egypt as the Israeli military has forced over a million civilians to the edge of the Gaza Strip and vowed to center its impending attacks on the city of Rafah. Various…
Can We Find Our Way to Indigenous Joy?
New Red Order: Jackson Polys (Tlingit), Adam and Zack Khalil (Ojibwe) with Riley Hooker, The World’s Unfair series (2023), posters on paper; placard posters: 24 x 36, inches; subway sheet: 45 x 59 inches (photo Brian Johnson/Hyperallergic) New Red Order: Jackson…
Required Reading
‣ Powerhouse photorealist painter and longtime New York artist Audrey Flack, now 92 and still painting, talks with Curbed‘s Wendy Goodman in her Manhattan apartment, chock-full of ephemera, art, and other gems: She pioneered photorealism along with Chuck Close, Richard…
Legislators Push Bill for American Jewish History Museum
A new bill introduced in the United States Congress yesterday, March 20, aims to establish a Smithsonian museum of American Jewish history. The legislation, which would help transfer ownership of the existing Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in…
How Can a Poster Sing?
Ryan RedCorn and Ashley Richards (Osage/Otoe), “Make The World Better” (2009), silkscreen on paper, 20 x 34 inches (courtesy Ryan RedCorn) Ryan RedCorn and Ashley Richards (Osage/Otoe), “Make The World Better” (2009), silkscreen on paper, 20 x 34 inches (courtesy…
Lesia Khomenko Distills the Resolve of Ukrainians
Lesia Khomenko, “I’m a Bird II” (2023–24), acrylic on canvas, 47 1/4 x 35 7/8 inches (all photos by Michael R. Lopez and courtesy Voloshyn Gallery) Lesia Khomenko, “I’m a Bird II” (2023–24), acrylic on canvas, 47 1/4 x 35…
Yong Soon Min, Intrepid Korean-American Artist, Dies at 70
Yong Soon Min, “Defining Moments No. 2” (1992), silver gelatin print, lacquered wood frame, 20 3/8 x 16 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches (image courtesy the artist) Yong Soon Min, “Defining Moments No. 2” (1992), silver gelatin print, lacquered wood frame, 20…
Asian-American Art Is Plagued by Generational Amnesia
Over the recent Lunar New Year weekend, I attended the opening and panel discussion for the exhibition Scratching at the Moon at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The show is described on the museum’s website as the “first…
Discovery of 8,600-Year-Old Bread Gives Rise to Half-Baked Claims
Archaeologists excavating at the ancient Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in southern Turkey have uncovered the remains of unbaked, leavened bread dating to around 6600 BCE. Within a furnace structure in the ancient proto-city, archaeologists found wheat, barley, pea seeds, and…
Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: March 2024
Posted inCrosswords Look out for pink dolphins and Louis XIV in this maximalist mini crossword. Tagged: Crossword Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He…
Bright-Green Banksy Mural Pops Up On Saint Patrick’s Day
A new Banksy mural emerged in London’s Finsbury Park neighborhood over the weekend, to the delight of residents on Hornsey Road. On the side of a currently empty apartment building, the bright-green work aligns with the trimmed limbs of a…
The Multigenerational Legacy of Black Arts in Buffalo
Bree Gilliam, “There Goes the Neighborhood” (2022), oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches (courtesy the artist; image courtesy the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives) Bree Gilliam, “There Goes the Neighborhood” (2022), oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches (courtesy…
Patrick Moore to Resign as Warhol Museum Director
Patrick Moore will be resigning as director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, effective May 2024. In a statement today, March 15, Moore said his departure was due to his plans to move to Spain with his husband….
Damien H. Ding’s Dreams of a Modernist Past
Damien H. Ding, “IM Pei Dreaming” (2023), egg tempera on aluminum, 36.875 x 30.875 inches framed (all images courtesy Steven Zevitas Gallery) Damien H. Ding, “IM Pei Dreaming” (2023), egg tempera on aluminum, 36.875 x 30.875 inches framed (all images…
Required Reading
While a TikTok ban looms in the United States, we decided to dedicate this week’s edition to what we culled from the video-sharing social media platform for your viewing pleasure. Also, did you know 40% of adults in the United…
Fiction and Fact Intermingle at the First Look Film Festival
First Look is the Museum of the Moving Image’s annual celebration of experimental cinema. This year’s edition features an intriguing assortment of films that remix archival materials, blend nonfiction and fiction, or do both. Elene Asatiani and Soso Dumbadze’s Limitation…
Sanford Wurmfeld Investigates How We Perceive Color
Ever since Sanford Wurmfeld began exhibiting in the mid-1960s, he has rigorously investigated the ways the viewer can experience color in painting. In the important 1968 exhibition, Art of the Real USA 1948-1968, at the Museum of Modern Art, curated…
Artists Respond to TikTok’s Nebulous Future in the US
The United States House of Representatives unanimously voted yesterday, March 12, to move forward with a bill that could result in a nationwide ban of TikTok if its owner, the Chinese internet technology company ByteDance, doesn’t sell it in 180…
Questions Remain After ICA Miami Removes Portrait of Edward Said
Charles Gaines, “Faces 1: Identity Politics, #10, Edward Said” (2018) on view at the ICA Miami on March 7 (photo used with permission) The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA) quietly removed a portrait of the Palestinian-American scholar and activist…
First Impressions From the 2024 Whitney Biennial
As the Whitney Museum’s signature event, the Biennial is a highly anticipated exhibition that often acts as a barometer of trends and ideas percolating in global art communities, as told through an American lens. It tells us a great deal…
A Transhistorical Approach to Five Centuries of Art
VIENNA — History Tales. Fact and Fiction in History Painting, an exhibition that draws on the rich collection of the Academy of Fine Arts, reveals the ways we view the world, including our nations and our identities, to be social…
The Dark Clouds Closing In on Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko, “Yellow Band” (1956), oil on canvas, 86 1/10 × 79 1/2 inches, Sheldon Museum of Art (all photos Anthony Majanlahti/Hyperallergic) PARIS — Mark Rothko’s work has come to epitomize mid-20th-century art in the United States. The immediately identifiable…
A True and Exact History of Queer Indigenous Sovereignty
Having collaborated for more than three decades across visual and print media, artists Kent Monkman (Fisher River Cree Nation) and Gisèle Gordon (settler) released their most ambitious work to date: The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and…
UrbanGlass Staff Leave Exhibition After Board Excludes Palestinian Artist’s Work
Over a dozen artists and UrbanGlass workers withdrew their work from a group exhibition at the Brooklyn institution after its board of directors voted to remove a Palestinian staff member’s neon artwork featuring the phrase “from the river to the…
The Synergetic Spirit of Buffalo’s Black Arts Community
As a curator, writer, and artist, my work is grounded in storytelling. Contextualizing the work of artists past and present for broad audiences is an incredible responsibility; arts administrators play a significant role in determining whose stories are preserved in…
LA Protesters Block Traffic, Chanting “No Oscars During Genocide”
LOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 organizers, artists, and film workers gathered in Hollywood today, March 10, to call for “no Oscars during genocide” amid the ongoing siege and bombardment of Gaza, denouncing what they described as Hollywood’s silence and…
Pro-Palestine Activists Slash Portrait of British PM Associated With Nakba
Members of the activist group Palestine Action spray-painted and slashed a portrait of British former Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour on view at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. The protest action was documented in a video posted to Instagram today,…
Three Shows at SITE Santa Fe Champion Abstraction Across Generations
This spring, SITE Santa Fe presents three exhibitions featuring the works of Carmen Herrera, Arturo Herrera, and Erin Shirreff. Arturo Herrera and Erin Shirreff’s exhibitions are on view through May 27, while Carmen Herrera’s is on view through September 16…
Zen Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection
Posted inSponsored Exhibition Announcement Japan Society explores the origins of Zen Buddhism over four centuries of work from painter-monks, including celebrated Buddhist master Hakuin Ekaku. Left: Sengai Gibon “Kanzan and Jittoku” (late 18th or early 19th century), hanging scroll; ink…
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts CEO Resigns Over Pro-Palestine Action
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Interim CEO Sara Fenske Bahat has resigned as the institution’s galleries remain closed since February 15, following a pro-Palestine action led by eight exhibiting artists. Fenske Bahat’s departure follows weeks of turmoil at…
Required Reading
‣ For the New Yorker, Manvir Singh takes a deep dive into Dune’s fictional language, or “conlang” (and why the Hollywood adaptation curiously erases many of its Arabic influences): Although Peterson’s version of the Fremen language retains a vaguely Arabic…
Activists Disrupt Israeli Artist Michal Rovner’s Opening at Pace Gallery
Approximately 30 demonstrators disrupted the opening of Israeli artist Michal Rovner’s exhibition Pragim at Manhattan’s Pace Gallery tonight, March 7. Accusing the artist of ignoring the reality of Palestinians and decrying her use of poppies, a flower that carries special…
Sarah Grilo’s Prescient Abstraction
Sarah Grilo, “America’s going…” (1967), oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 26 inches (© The Estate of Sarah Grilo; image courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.) Among the 17 paintings by artist Sarah Grilo in Galerie Lelong’s The New York Years, 1962–1970,…
Piano Transcriptions Songs That Are Both Familiar and Fresh
Piano Transcriptions Songs Featuring piano transcriptions songs that are both familiar and fresh. These pieces range from classics to newer compositions, providing an exciting way to learn to play music that is both well known and new. The recognizable melodic…
Reimagine Peace, No Matter How Long the Path
Next year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, yet the world still finds itself in uncertain circumstances, rampant with war and unjust violence. The Japanese-American concentration camps were the most inhumane consequence of WWII situated…
Inside the Life of Bird-Rehabilitator-Artist-Professor Sheida Soleimani
Sheida Soleimani, “Noon-o-namek (bread and salt)” (2021), archival pigment print, 62 x 45 5/8 inches (all images courtesy the artist unless otherwise noted) To hear Iranian-American artist, educator, and wildlife rehabilitator Sheida Soleimani tell it, there was a time when…
Lenders Withdraw Works From Barbican Show, Alleging “Censorship”
Art collectors Lorenzo Legarda Leviste and Fahad Mayet have withdrawn quilt works by Loretta Pettway from an exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre in protest of the arts organization’s alleged repression of free speech around Palestine. The pair’s choice to have…
Nonprofit Led by Laurene Powell Jobs Acquires SF Art Institute for $30M
Less than a year after the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) declared bankruptcy and shuttered its doors, a new nonprofit led by philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, has purchased the campus complete with its iconic 1931…
The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: March 2024
Posted inCrosswords Infamous affairs in art history, Harlem Renaissance icons, New York’s beloved escapee owl, and more art clues to puzzle over this month. Test your knowledge of Harlem Renaissance icons, affairs in art history, the latest in art worker…
A Painter Suspended Between Beauty and Waste
Phillip Allen’s paintings are paradoxes that have stayed with me ever since I first saw his work in 2013 at Kerlin Gallery in Dublin. As I stated in my review at the time, it was evident to me that “Allen…
8 Art Books to Read This March
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when you finish one art book, a dozen more pop up in its place. That’s where we come in with a list of titles to check out this month, including a charming Beatrix Potter…
Dispatches From Inside (and Outside) Frieze LA
LOS ANGELES — “I have a deep skepticism of the art market, with its structure predicated on privilege, wealth, class, and race,” artist Jennifer Wofford told Hyperallergic. Despite her reticence, she was there in the belly of the best, at…
Protesters Call Out Art World’s Silence on Gaza at Frieze LA Fair
LOS ANGELES — In pouring rain, a group of 20 unaffiliated cultural workers gathered to protest the United States’s continued funding of Israel’s attacks on Gaza. Citing Frieze partner Deutsche Bank’s ties to Israel, the organizers rallied outside of the…
Glass House Is a Dance of Drama and Domesticity
LOS ANGELES — When I heard that the latest performance from dance collective Volta was going to explore the subject of home, I thought it would be about a global sense of place. Glass House, a four-show run presented by…
8 Art Shows to See in New York This March
Spring is finally peeking through the cold and clouds and New York galleries and museums are in full bloom with great shows. This month we’re highlighting some artists’ artists — from celebrated figures in art history like Paul Cadmus to…
Trippy Highlights From LA’s Spring/Break Art Show
LOS ANGELES — There’s a perennial booth rule at Spring/Break Art Show: “No white walls.” This directive gave the warehouse space in Culver City the aura of a migraine without the headache. I was offered a tour during the fair’s…
Getting Cozy at Felix, LA’s Art Fair Underdog
LOS ANGELES — It’s my fourth rodeo at Felix Art Fair, which sets up its booths inside the poolside cabanas at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. It’s the second biggest event happening in the Los Angeles art world during so-called “Frieze Week,”…
Children “In Tears” at Disastrous Wonka Factory “Experience”
A screenshot from the “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” website (left) and a photo from the actual event (right) (screenshot Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic, photo by and courtesy Stuart Sinclair) A screenshot from the “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” website (left) and a photo from the…
Palestinian Artist Fathi Ghaben Dies After Israel Blocks Travel for Treatment
Gazan artist Fathi Ghaben died on Sunday, February 25 from health complications after Israeli authorities refused to give him permission to leave the besieged region to access medical treatment. He was renowned for his oil paintings that paid homage to…
UK Store Accused of Racially Profiling Man Attempting to Buy Spray Paint
A Welsh man has accused arts and craft retail chain Hobbycraft of racial profiling him after staff at the store’s Cardiff location refused to sell him spray paint. The incident took place on Saturday, February 24, when 32 year-old Louis…
How Artists Reimagine Our Relationship With Death
As an artist-curator whose practice is focused on death and dying, I’m deeply invested in the work of my peers. Many of us share an ongoing process of reclaiming our cultural traditions, language, and social permissions of grief, mourning, and…
Lunar New Year Parade Calls Out Displacement in Chinatown and Palestine
Every year, Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown hosts the city’s biggest celebration of the Lunar New Year in an elaborate parade that weaves its way through the historic New York neighborhood, abound with intricate performances, brightly colored confetti, and traditional puppets. The…
Pink Dolphins Bear Witness to the Amazon’s Destruction
In a curatorial coincidence, three current exhibitions across lower Manhattan are addressing the ecological devastation of the Amazon, raising awareness of historic and present-day extractive practices, as well as their dire consequences. Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre at Jack Shainman Gallery,…
Prado Show Reveals the Hidden Artworks on the Backs of Masterpieces
Front (left) and back (right) of Annibale Carracci and students, “The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalen / Sketches of figures” (c. 1585–1600), oil on panel on front; black chalk, charcoal, sepia ink, and oil on panel on back, 14.76 x 11.61…
Albrecht Dürer, a Humanist Messiah
Albrecht Dürer, “Self-Portrait at 28” (1500), oil on lime, 26 2/5 x 19 1/5 inches; held by Alte Pinakothek, München, Germany (image via Wikimedia Commons) Albrecht Dürer, “Self-Portrait at 28” (1500), oil on lime, 26 2/5 x 19 1/5 inches;…
The Black Girlhood Altar Implores Us to Remember
CHICAGO — Black women in general experience the world differently from those who are not Black and female. It’s a truth that seems almost too obvious to acknowledge. And yet, it’s worth examining how every facet that makes up Black…
Of Chairs and Pomeranians
Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 “Chair With Pipe,” on view at Britain’s National Gallery in London. (via Wikimedia Commons) The National Gallery Photographi How to grapple with London these days, when the best and the worst of those who govern over…
Jewish Voice for Peace Channels Young Lords in “Dump AIPAC” March
Thousands of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) organizers and allies marched over several blocks toward the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) headquarters in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, February 22, protesting the lobbying organization’s influence on politicians’ opposition to…
Documenting Ridgewood’s Abandoned Tree Beds
The average pedestrian on a city stroll is more likely to notice the tall, flowering trees they see above them than the remnants of trunks no longer there. Photographer Alexa Hoyer is unique: It was the derelict, abandoned sidewalk tree…
Your Guide to NYC’s 2024 Spring Art Fairs
New York City’s spring art fair season is almost upon us, and this year’s lineup promises another busy few months. The Affordable Art Fair kicks off the madness on March 20, and Brooklyn’s Other Art Fair will wrap up the…
Required Reading
‣ Reporting for New Lines Magazine, Matthew Petti finds out that a fanatical Israel settlement is being funded by suburbanites on Long Island: A lot of money is at stake. An investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz found that the settlements…
British Museum Hosts Runway Show With Parthenon Marbles as “Backdrop”
Greece Culture Minister Lina Mendoni lambasted the British Museum after the Parthenon Marbles were used as a “backdrop” for a runway show during London Fashion Week. Mendoni told the Telegraph that the decision to allow the sculptures’ display as part of…
Artepaño Dispatches From the US Carceral System
In my time presenting Chicano/Latino/Latinx prisoner art in museums, visitors have expressed enthusiasm that is frequently coupled with confusion over the symbolism they encounter. Many find the signage impenetrable or fear that their personal interpretations might draw on offensive stereotypes….
Yale University Acknowledges Its Role in Slavery
Yale University has issued an official apology in response to findings related to the school’s historical ties to slavery. The February 16 statement from Yale President Peter Salovey and Joshua Bekenstein, a senior board trustee for the Yale Corporation, follows…
10 Offbeat Art Events During LA’s Art Fair Week
LOS ANGELES — In just over a week, three art fairs will be popping up throughout Los Angeles: Frieze at the Santa Monica Airport, Felix at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, and Spring Break in Culver City. While much of…
Joey Terrill’s Playful Tributes to Gay Artists We’ve Lost
BEVERLY HILLS — When Joey Terrill tested positive for HIV in 1989, he assumed he had only a short time to live. In the 1980s, contracting AIDS was considered a death sentence and losing friends to the disease had become…
When Museums Become Instagram Bait
LONDON — “No, not that way,” the young man behind the press table tells me as I head toward the usual entrance to exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery. “That door over there!” He points to the right of me, to…
Pandora’s Box Unleashes a Universe of Male Oppression
“He’s acting like he wants to buy me,” a flapper scowls at her shady landlord, her glossy black bob trembling. “I’d rather be thrown in prison.” The first silent film to openly sympathize with a sex worker — and, for…
Artists Deface Their Work, Protesting San Francisco Institution’s “Silence” on Gaza
Eight artists defaced their own artwork on display at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) during a pro-Palestine demonstration yesterday evening, February 15. Two of the artists alleged that the San Francisco arts center had prevented them from…
Massage Workers’ Collective Challenges Racism With Art
NEW YORK — Nearly three years ago, on March 16, 2021, a gunman killed eight people, six of whom were Asian women, in a series of shooting incidents in Atlanta-area spas. Amid the ongoing racial justice dialogues in the wake…
Berlinale Film Festival Curators Join Call for Gaza Ceasefire
Today, February 16, the curators of the Berlinale international film festival’s Forum Expanded program joined artists’ expressions of solidarity with Palestine and called for a ceasefire in Gaza in the first such public expression by German festival programmers. The statement…
LA Art Show Has Some Hidden Delights
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles has become home to three new art fairs over the past few years, including multi-national Frieze, swanky hometown hotel affair Felix, and DIY venture Spring/Break. While those events are all a couple weeks away, LA’s…
At the IFPDA Print Fair, the Magic’s in the Details
Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory may be the most romantic of New York City’s art fair venues. The historic building boasts a cavernous 1880 showroom more akin to a turn-of-the-century train hall than the home of a trade show. After five…
Sundance Documentaries Pay Tribute to Female Trailblazers
Two stubborn misconceptions that persist in American media about women who change the world are that they are (a) Western, and (b) self-identified feminists. This year’s Sundance film festival offered an array of documentaries spanning cultural vantages and historic eras…
Required Reading
‣ KVOA in Tucson, Arizona, reported that Nkechi Diallo, formerly Rachel Dolezal, lost her job over her OnlyFans account. 2024 is turning out to be another doozy, isn’t it? She was a prominent civil rights leader and an African Studies professor…
UK Arts Funding Body Urges Grantees to Stay Out of Politics
Arts Council England (ACE), a governmental funding body for the promotion of the nation’s arts sector, has informed its grant recipients of new guidelines outlining that any activity that “might be considered to be overtly political or activist” could potentially…
Could This Be Humanity’s Earliest Recorded Kiss?
A clay model shows a couple kissing. The work is dated approximately 1800 BCE, originating from Mesopotamia. (© The Trustees of the British Museum; image courtesy Troels Pank Arbøll) How old is the first kiss? Recent studies have pointed to…
Pro-Palestine Protesters Disrupt Tania Bruguera Performance in Berlin
Pro-Palestine protesters disrupted a performance by Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof on Saturday, February 10, twice interrupting the 100-hour-long reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. Originally beginning at 7pm on February 7 and…
Inside the World’s Largest Comics and Cartoons Collection
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Amid “flyover country,” as it’s colloquially and insultingly referred to, in an unendingly flat city nicknamed “Cowtown,” the Ohio State University (OSU) erupts as an archetypal college campus. A miscellany of stone and brick buildings from various…
The Importance of Art in a “Good Death”
Everyone deserves a good death. This is a common phrase used in the deathcare field. It speaks to the humanity needed in end-of-life support, and the reality that not everyone experiences a good death. A “good death” is unique to…
How Paño Arte Becomes Artepaño
If paño arte is the private-facing practice of artists serving time in penitentiaries across the United States, then artepaño encompasses the afterlife of the artifact. Discarded by intended recipients, paños — ink drawings executed on commissary handkerchiefs used to communicate…
Danielle De Jesus’s Ode to Puerto Rican Bushwick
Artist Danielle De Jesus grew up near the intersection of Jefferson Street and Knickerbocker Avenue in a Puerto Rican household in Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood that has steadily gentrified since the mid-aughts, when artists began establishing studios in the warehouses…
MoMA Shutters as 500+ Protesters Infiltrate Atrium in Support of Palestine
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan unexpectedly closed its galleries to the public at around 3:45pm Saturday, February 10, after over 500 pro-Palestinian protesters took over the building’s second-floor atrium for a massive demonstration. Co-organized by several advocacy…
Join Our Curatorial Fellows for Talks on Paño Arte, Indigenous Print Design, and More
From reframing how the art world sees art made in prison to Indigenous print design, we’re excited to share what our five curatorial fellows have been working on over the past several months. This February and March, join us for weekly conversations…
Required Reading
‣ After a speaker shared the title of his talk on Gaza for a London Review of Books lecture series, the Barbican backed out of hosting the event altogether. Lanre Bakare of the Guardian has the story: A description of…
The Living Legacy of Funerary Arts
Death is one of life’s few universal experiences. As long as people are born, people will die. And as long as people have died, artists have played an integral role in creating cultural death practices. Whether providing care for the…
The Private Life of Paño Arte
I first encountered paño arte, intricate ink or pencil drawings on handkerchiefs created by incarcerated Chicanos, as a boy in south Texas. My older cousin had received a letter from Huntsville State Penitentiary. Every inch of the envelope was decorated…
Video of Israel Soldiers Handling Gaza Antiquities Raises Outrage
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) drew criticism online on Sunday, January 21, after its Director-General Eli Eskozido posted an Instagram story depicting Israeli soldiers onsite at a storeroom in Gaza filled with apparent antiquities, as well as a photo of…
Kick Off the Year of the Dragon With 10 NYC Events
The Year of the Dragon commences on Saturday, February 10, marking a new cycle in the lunar calendar. The event is celebrated with week-long festivities in China; here in New York, cultural organizations across the city are also offering a…
Women Are the Post-Apocalyptic Future
BERLIN and PARIS — In recent years, impending ecological apocalypse has spurred a number of contemporary artists to visualize fears of an environmental collapse. Yet it’s also inspired artists to imagine post-apocalyptic futures. British artist Emma Talbot and American artist…
Organizers Handing Out Flyers Thrown Out of Brooklyn Museum
While being escorted out of the museum, two organizers from For Our Liberation continued to distribute their flyers to visitors during the First Fridays event. (all images courtesy For Our Liberation) Last weekend, two community organizers were thrown out of…
8 Art Books to Read This February
This month, we’re turning to books that spark questions and crack open new possibilities, with digital culture on our minds as always, and photography looming large as a tool for both oppression and self-determination. A series of free, printable zines…
Return the Stolen Artifact, But Keep the Museum Label
I’ve been thinking about absence since last spring, when I visited a patch of churned dirt at Health Sciences Park in Memphis, Tennessee. A monument to the notoriously cruel Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate cavalry commander and first “Grand Wizard”…
The Passions of Joan Snyder
“MY WORK HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY FAITHFUL TO ME,” reads an emphatic text in a 1997 print by Joan Snyder. It might be a banner, as well, for ComeClose, her exhibition of 13 recent mixed-medium paintings reiterating motifs and materials she…
In TM Davy’s Art, Faeries Have Their Day
Walking into Company Gallery in Soho late last year felt like walking into a faerie wonderland. During a casual Wednesday I entered in to find artist TM Davy with a friend seated on a vibrant array of blankets playing instruments…
The Artist Making Masterpieces Out of Bubble Wrap
From Pointillism to stippling, Ben Day to halftones, the compilation of dots to construct an image can be traced through myriad examples in art history. But what about the medium of bubble wrap? While most people see this material as…
Onassis AiR Invites Applications for Residencies and Fellowships in Athens
Onassis AiR invites artists, curators, designers, theater makers, activists, writers, choreographers, performers, architects, creative coders, filmmakers, and other practitioners working in any discipline, from anywhere in the world, to apply for a residency or fellowship in Athens, Greece, between September…
Hyperallergic Spring 2024 New York Art Guide
There’s nothing like springtime in New York City, blooming with color, people, and things to do. Museums, galleries, and public art come alive as locals and tourists mingle in plazas, on subways, and in the halls of the venerable institutions…
Man Dies After Falling From Tate Modern Museum in London
A man died after falling from the Tate Modern building in London on Friday morning, February 2. In a statement shared with Hyperallergic, the city’s Metropolitan Police said they responded to a call from the scene at 10:45am local time,…
Required Reading
‣ There’s a cottage industry for everything: ‣ Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts, and Jeffrey Watumull wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times suggesting that there is “false promise” in ChatGPT and other AI-related systems. They write: It is at once…
For Barrow Parke, Systems Are the Medium
Barrow Parke, “Shapes in Time” (2022), acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen, 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches (image courtesy the artists and JDJ, New York and Garrison) Barrow Parke, “Shapes in Time” (2022), acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen,…
These Are the Artists in the 2024 Venice Biennale
1. Pacita AbadBasco, Philippines, 1946-2004, Singapore 2. Mariam Abdel-AleemAlexandria, Egypt, 1930–2010 3. Etel AdnanBeirut, Lebanon, 1925–2021, Paris, France 4. Sandy AdsettWairoa, New Zealand, 1939. Lives in Hastings, New Zealand 5. AffandiCirebon, Indonesia, 1907–1990, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 6. Zubeida AghaLyallpur, India, 1922–1997,…
Lisa Hunt, Who Transformed Gold Leaf in Her Art, Dies at 55
Contemporary printmaker and designer Lisa Hunt, who was celebrated for her intricately precise gold leaf artistry and expanding studio practice, passed away from Leiomyosarcoma at her home in Maplewood, New Jersey, on January 20. She was 55 years old. Born…
Are We Really Still Doing White Feminist Shows in 2024?
Artemisia Gentileschi, “Judith and her Maidservant” (1618–19), oil on canvas, 44 x 36.61 inches (image courtesy Uffizi Gallery) MADRID — In the Book of Judith, the titular Jewish widow seduces and then beheads an Assyrian general in order to prevent…
Police Reportedly Fire Tear Gas at Machu Picchu Protesters
Police in Peru reportedly fired tear gas this weekend at protesters challenging the country’s decision to consolidate Machu Picchu ticket sales through a partnership with a private online ticketing platform. The new policy, which went into effect earlier this month,…
Richard Prince Must Pay $650K+ to Artists for Using Their Work
“When I sued Richard Prince more than seven years ago, it was hard to imagine I’d be, along with Donald Graham, part of these history-making judgments finally holding Prince accountable for his conduct,” McNatt said in an email to Hyperallergic. “It’s…
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This February
This month’s selections offer Day-Glo wonder and enticing textures, beneath which lie more complicated themes. Both Aryana Minai’s color-saturated paper-pulp paintings and Joey Terrill’s Pop-pastiches resemble portals to other worlds built on loss, memory, and survival. Three group shows — ART…
Daniel Senise’s Complex Minimalism
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — The story of the Brazilian art movement Generation 80 is often told as a return to painting: rather than a definitive break with the hegemony of abstraction in its numerous guises (Concrete, Neo-Concrete, New Figuration, and…
Caroline Monnet’s Indigenous Worldbuilding
The past few years have been busy for multidisciplinary Anishinaabe, French and Canadian artist Caroline Monnet, from completing a feature film in 2021 to 11 exhibitions in 2023 — of which four were solo shows — to having her artwork…
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‣ For History Today, Isabella Rosner tells the story of Annie Parker, a 19th-century artist who was frequently incarcerated and crafted detailed embroidery using her own hair as a thread: Between her hairwork embroideries and her presence in workhouse records and…
American Museum of Natural History Closes Native Exhibition Halls
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City will shutter two expansive galleries showcasing Native objects tomorrow, January 27, and cover seven additional display cases, according to an all-staff email sent today by President Sean M. Decatur…
Another Indigenous Curator Leaves Art Gallery of Ontario
Taqralik Partridge has departed from Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), becoming the second Indigenous curator to exit the Canadian museum’s Indigenous and Canadian Art department within two months. Partridge’s leave from AGO earlier this month quickly succeeds the scrutinized…
Artists “Stunned” After Museum Nixes Reimagined Michael Fried Show
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) has canceled an exhibition focused on the legacy of art historian Michael Fried’s landmark 1965 show Three American Painters months before its opening. Three American Painters: Then and Now was conceived and organized…
When an Artist-Couple Conceives a Joint Exhibition
Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher are cheerleaders of the Hudson Valley, a growing art scene that flowers with galleries, artist-run spaces, and established and newly opened contemporary museums and university galleries. Veterans of the Brooklyn art scene, they moved to…
Alex Brown Foundation 2025 Artist-in-Residence Program
Posted inSponsored Opportunities Located in Des Moines, Iowa, this residency for emerging and established artists includes studio and living space, a monthly expense allowance of $1,000, and more. Artist Alex Brown’s studio in Des Moines, Iowa (2019) The Alex Brown…
Artist Carl Andre Dies at 88
Carl Andre, the mid-20th century Minimalist sculptor whose legacy is clouded by allegations that he murdered Cuban artist Ana Mendieta, died this morning, January 24, in a Manhattan hospice facility at the age of 88. His death was confirmed by…
MoMA Accused of Enabling Sexual Assault During Marina Abramović Show
Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault and harassment. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org. An artist who performed nude during Marina Abramović’s 2010 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art…
Artists Drop Out of CalArts MFA Show After Venue Bans Pro-Palestine Language
Malavika Rao, “dream home” (2023), gouache on paper, 29 x 22 inches, one of the works withdrawn from the MFA show at UTA Artist Space (image courtesy the artist) LOS ANGELES — Seven artists have withdrawn their work from Infrastructures,…
“What Is the State of American Art?”
As part of its new initiative, Lunder Institute @, the Colby College Museum of Art’s Lunder Institute for American Art has invited six prominent art institutions across the nation to respond to the question: “What is the state of American…
Tomashi Jackson Layers History to Reveal Contemporary Injustice
Most of the time that Tomashi Jackson is creating art, she says that she doesn’t know what the final product will look like. Instead of aesthetics, she is more focused on the extensive methodical research that goes into the work…
Redefining Modern Art in the Muslim World
Karachi-born conceptual artist Rasheed Araeen’s Islam and Modernism encourages Muslim artists and scholars to learn from the Islamic history of ideas pertaining to modernity in lieu of a Eurocentric discourse. The London-based author juggles philosophy, religion, a short critique of…
The Slow Joy of James Siena’s Intricate Compositions
I was surprised how soon James Siena had his second exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery, following his first in late 2022. When I learned that the exhibition was devoted to Siena’s drawings, I surmised that it was either a survey…
Tulsa Artist Fellowship Calls for Artists and Arts Workers of All Disciplines
Tulsa Artist Fellowship, a place-based, durational award that aims to support visionary arts practitioners, is now accepting applications for its 2025-2027 cohort. The fellowship encourages established creatives of any medium or discipline with minimum five years of relevant experience to…
IDSVA’s PhD in Visual Arts Fuses Online Education With Intensive Global Residencies
Low-ResidencyA truly nomadic institution, the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) fuses interactive online education with intensive global residencies. This means that throughout the three-year course of study, IDSVA students can pursue rigorous advanced scholarship without interrupting…
The Simpsons Make Their Mark in Inuit Art
“The Simpsons predicted it” is by now such a popular adage that there are lists upon lists for apparent Simpsons predictions, from the rise of the US’s 45th president to faulty voter machines. At least in internet lore, this pop…
LA Philharmonic Presents Kurt Cobain-Inspired Opera “Last Days”
Blake, a successful musician, has recently escaped rehab to return home. The safety of his house is soon disrupted by a slew of unwelcome guests — an insistent delivery worker, a pair of Mormons on a mission, a chorus of…
Museum Leaders Urge NYC Mayor to Reverse Budget Cuts
Leaders from over 30 arts institutions across New York City are urging Mayor Eric Adams to restore funding to the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA). The coalition published a letter to the mayor this Tuesday, January 16, hours before he…
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‣ Programming around a new Rothko exhibition in DC aims to illuminate the artist’s musical influences, including Mozart. Michael Andor Brodeur reports for the Washington Post: But there’s been less exploration into the influence of music on Rothko — a significant…
Man Arrested in Connection With Death of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema
Brent Sikkema (photo courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Company) Police in Rio de Janeiro have arrested a man in connection with the suspected murder of Brent Sikkema, a New York art dealer and founder of Sikkema Jenkins & Company gallery who…
Rose Marasco Captures the Poetry of Domestic Objects
One of Rose Marasco’s goals in her photographs is to chronicle “the actual and symbolic significance of everyday household objects,” according to a press release for a 2004–5 show at Zillman Art Museum in Maine. In her Domestic Objects series…
Chicago’s Field Museum Covers Up Native Display
Chicago’s Field Museum has covered up some display cases of Native objects in its Ancient Americas and Northwest Coast and Arctic People exhibitions in adherence with updated regulations established by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The…
Italian Culture Minister Accused of Owning Stolen Painting
Italian authorities are investigating junior culture minister and art critic Vittorio Sgarbi, accused of owning and displaying a 17th-century painting that was allegedly cut from its frame in a heist over a decade ago. The 71-year-old government official, who also…
Art Dealer Brent Sikkema Found Dead in Brazil
Brazilian authorities are investigating the death of Brent Sikkema, co-owner of Manhattan’s contemporary art gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Company, who was reportedly found dead in his Rio de Janeiro residence on Monday evening. He was 75 years old. According to…
Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: January 2024
Posted inCrosswords A hint for the first mini art crossword of the new year: 2- and 3-Down are both too damn high. Tagged: Crossword Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Narrative, Los…
Instagram Censors NYC Art Show About the Nude Body
Alexandra Rubinstein, “The Venus Trap” (2023), menstrual blood on canvas, 40 x 40 inches (image courtesy the artist and Kravets Wehby Gallery) Alexandra Rubinstein, “The Venus Trap” (2023), menstrual blood on canvas, 40 x 40 inches (image courtesy the artist…
Two Views of a Family Breakfast
LONDON — The National Gallery has brought together an oil painting and pastel version of the same composition, known as “The Lavergne Family Breakfast,” by Genovese-born artist Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702–1789) — the former unseen in the UK for more than…
The Noguchi Museum’s Artist Banners 2024
Posted inSponsored Opportunities NYC-based artists who identify as AAPI are invited to submit outdoor banner designs for the museum. The winner will receive a $3,500 honorarium. Artist June Shin, winner of The Noguchi Museum’s second Open Call for Artist Banners,…
Four Black Artists on What It Means to Be Seen
Joyce Jeffrey’s photo of Annie Chapati for her 2010 series Knot Bad (all photos courtesy the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History) What does it mean to be seen? To give others access to your truth? At the…
Good Riddance to NFT Avatars on X
Only one year ago, Twitter (now X) announced that paid users on the site could set an NFT as their profile picture. Douchebags rejoiced, as their three favorite things — NFTs, web-based opinion-sharing, and ostentatious displays of crypto wealth —…
Artists Pledge to Boycott German Institutions Over Stifling of Pro-Palestine Speech
Hundreds of artists and cultural workers around the world signed a petition calling to boycott German cultural institutions in response to the nation’s “McCarthyist policies” targeting critics of Israel’s violence against Palestinians. Signed by over 650 people including artist Lawrence…
The Neuberger Museum of Art Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary
In 1969, private art collector, philanthropist, and arts advocate Roy R. Neuberger promised 300 paintings and sculptures as the founding gift for a new museum that would be established to showcase visual arts education on a public college campus. Five…
Indiana University Cancels Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby’s Exhibition
Artist Samia Halaby (photo via Wikimedia Commons) Over 1,300 people have signed a petition urging Indiana University at Bloomington (IU) to reinstate a canceled retrospective of Palestinian artist Samia Halaby. The show, titled Centers of Energy, was originally scheduled to…
The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art
William Matthew Prior, “Mrs. Nancy Lawson” (1843), oil on canvas (© Shelburne Museum; image courtesy the Shelburne Museum) William Matthew Prior, “Mrs. Nancy Lawson” (1843), oil on canvas (© Shelburne Museum; image courtesy the Shelburne Museum) William Matthew Prior, “Mrs….
Street Artists Launch Poster Campaign for Gaza
Shepard Fairey poster based on an image taken by Palestinian photojournalist Belal Khaled in Gaza on November 8, 2023 (all images courtesy Unmute Gaza) An international street art movement featuring Palestinian photojournalism from the Gaza Strip is drawing attention to…
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‣ For BBC, journalist Ismail Einashe speaks with artists who’ve been displaced amid the war in Sudan and their fight to maintain their practices: Despite this warm welcome by Kenya’s art community, life is difficult for the Sudanese artists because of…
Musée de la Villa les Camélias Presents Four Decades of Painting by Mitchell Johnson
Musée de la Villa les Camélias in Cap d’Ail, France, presents La révélation de Meyreuil, an exhibition of 50 small paintings by Bay Area artist Mitchell Johnson, on view from May 17 through September 29, 2024. Spanning four decades, the…
Tracing the Hand of Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli, “The Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist” (“Madonna of the Rose Garden”) (c. 1468), tempera and gold on poplar panel, 35 3/4 x 26 3/8 inches; Musée du Louvre (© RMN-Grand Palais, photo Tony…
7 Art Books to Start the New Year
What’s a New Year’s resolution list without some art books in the mix? For our first art reads of 2024, we bring you several titles that break the mold and encourage us to read outside the box this year. Balint…
The Life-Affirming Promise of Regenerative Design
“Funny how plastic never seems to go away, except for when you want it to stay,” Paola Antonelli, senior curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), wrote in a personal essay about a beloved black vinyl skirt she bought…
Mickey Mouse Is Copyright-Free and the Internet Is Making the Most of It
Many people dream of building an enduring creative legacy, one which will outlast them and forever imprint itself into the annals of human culture. They rarely consider the drawbacks of such endurance: the moment when a prized icon enters the…
Met Museum to Sell George Washington Portrait for Up to $2.5M
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is deaccessioning a rare oil painting of George Washington, which could sell for as much as $2.5 million at a Christie’s auction in New York later this month. Created by American artist…
With the Help of LA, a Las Vegas Art Museum Forges Ahead
LOS ANGELES — A planned art museum in Las Vegas hopes to establish itself as a major cultural center, succeeding where other Sin City art spaces have failed, through a recently announced partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art…
Can “Rubenesque” Be Feminist?
LONDON — True to the zeitgeist of championing women in the arts, 2023 museum programming has consciously put female artists front and center: Marina Abramovic was the subject of the first female solo show ever at the Royal Academy; the…
Opportunities in January 2024
Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their work. Subscribe to receive this list of opportunities in your inbox each month. Sign up here! If you find this list valuable, consider…
Art History’s Most Fascinating Calendars
An edition of Koloman Moser’s “Frommel’s Calendar” (c. 1912) at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (© Museum Associates/LACMA) New Year’s Day may signify the end of a much-needed holiday break, the receipt of invites to ultimately disappointing parties, and…
Celebrate Public Domain Day With André Breton and Millions of Cats!
Planning on sleeping in on Public Domain Day? Well … Wake up and smell the unbridled access to another novel from Virginia Woolf, some of André Breton’s Surrealist text, an iconic American picture book for cat lovers, Tigger the bouncy…
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‣ The Maya Train, a highly contentious project, has officially opened in Mexico. Andrea Sachs explains the railway’s threats to the local landscape and uncertain future for the Washington Post: Environmentalists, archaeologists and Indigenous people, among others, have voiced their opposition…
The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2023 Edition
In Hyperallergic parlance, “powerless” conjures a very specific status. Historically, our Powerless 20 list has shone a light on those who exist outside of an art world that lionizes the wealthy and the privileged, whether that’s because they’re persecuted by…
The Dazzling Magic of Filipino Lanterns
The five-pointed parol has long been a symbol of the holiday season in the Philippines. The star-shaped lanterns are crafted from materials ranging from paper to shells, and often light up, illuminating the windows of Filipino households at home and…
The Top 50 Exhibitions of 2023
In the midst of a hyper-charged news cycle throughout 2023, we still managed to see a lot of art and celebrate creativity in all its glorious permutations. We asked Hyperallergic staff and contributors to send us a list of their…
Transform Your Tomorrow With Pratt’s Summer Credit Intensives
See for yourself why Pratt is one of the top 10 art and design colleges in the world! Our experienced and dedicated faculty will support you and a cohort of like-minded peers during Pratt’s Summer Credit Intensives. Give yourself the…
Pope.L, Artist and Performer Who Crawled Across NYC, Dies at 68
A portrait of Pope.L (photo by Peyton Fulford, courtesy Modern Art London) Artist Pope.L, who worked across the interdisciplinary fields of performance, installation, and sculpture, died suddenly in his Chicago home at the age of 68 on December 23. Known…
Trailblazing Gallerist Margarete Roeder Dies at 84
This month, the world lost the extraordinary gallery owner Margarete Roeder, known as one of the sharpest eyes of the post-war art world in New York. She passed away on December 11 in Cologne, Germany, at the age of 84….
Hyperallergic’s 20 Most Read Stories of 2023
Well, 2023 was quite a year. For our part, we are proud of our reporting and the critical lens we brought to the world of art, and that we found and published so many stories you wanted to read and…
Yoshie Sakai Goes Clubbin’ With Grandma
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — Looking for the hottest club in town? Ask your grandma. “Grandma Nightclub,” a cozy two-seater bar set beside a stripper pole centered on a pink-tiled dance floor, has the rowdiest Ladies Night in the city, and…
An Unlikely Art Show Pops Up in an LA Mausoleum
LOS ANGELES — In The American Way of Death, first published in 1963, author Jessica Mitford critiqued the United States funeral industry for undermining the dignity of the deceased and exploiting grieving families for financial gain. Why, if our daily…
Chinese Dissidents Keep the Blank Paper Revolution Alive Through Art
On a crisp December morning, Seeta Chiang loaded around 20 artworks by various Chinese artists on a small truck. The pieces included illustrations, photography, and sculptures all inspired by last year’s “White Paper Revolution,” a series of protests against China’s…
The Creative Power of Mischief
SAN FRANCISCO — Every few months, a custodian at Greg Lamarche’s elementary school in Queens would climb up to the roof and throw all the tennis balls and frisbees that had landed on it down to the kids in the…
Zany Takes on Holiday Wreaths Now on View in Central Park
Left: Marie Ucci, “The Shape of Dreams” (2023), acrylic, canvas, dryer lint, felted wool, dried fruit and vegetables, leaves, ceramic shards, wood, plastic, embroidery thread, wire, feathers; right: Suzie Sims-Fletcher, “All is Calm, All is Bright (Home for the Holidays)”…
New Banksy Anti-War Piece Stolen in Broad Daylight
In London, a new anti-war artwork by the British street artist Banksy was stolen less than an hour after he authenticated it on Instagram earlier today, December 22. Footage circulating online shows two men removing the work, a stop sign…
The Unending Evolution of Nativity Scenes
With Christmas upon us, many observers of the Christian holiday commemorate the season with reconstructions of the famed Nativity scene, depicting the birth of Jesus Christ. From early two-dimensional renderings to elaborate Baroque sculptures, the practice has been adopted by…
Battery Park City Authority Presents “Pioneers of Public Art, New York in the 1980s and 1990s”
In the 1960s the Hudson River coastline below Chambers Street was the site of deserted and dilapidated docks. As the landfill that would be developed into a new neighborhood — Battery Park City, consisting of housing, parks, and retail and…
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‣ If you couldn’t make it to the epic Vermeer retrospective earlier this year at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam … well, good news! You can visit it virtually with this 360 view of the show. ‣ Michael Louie of Hellgate writes about…
Gaza Art Gallery Reportedly Destroyed by Israeli Airstrike
A Palestinian contemporary art collective and gallery space reported that its facilities were “totally destroyed” by an Israeli airstrike earlier this month. Eltiqa Gallery, which once operated on the bustling Omar Al-Mukhtar Street in downtown Gaza City and participated in…
Van Gogh’s First Painting of the Outdoors Heads to The Met
The first known painting by Vincent van Gogh to depict the outdoors is joining the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art thanks to the executive producer of Law & Order. Absent from everyone’s 2023 predictions bingo card, the New…
Artists to Shop for Last-Minute Holiday Gifts
Did you enthusiastically agree to and then completely forget about your friend’s white elephant gift exchange? Are you scrambling to find a meaningful present for your significant other that doesn’t reek of capitalist excess? Need a fittingly thoughtful birthday gift…
Wormfarm Institute Releases Call for Artists for 2024 Farm/Art DTour
Posted inSponsored Opportunities The organization will commission up to 10 artists to create large-scale temporary installations in farm fields in rural Wisconsin. Apply by February 12, 2024. W. Scott Trimble, “Curious Erratic of the Driftless” (2022), commissioned by the Wormfarm…
A Poignant Meditation on the Dance Marathon
LOS ANGELES — Long before reality television series like the ever-popular Naked and Afraid, true crime shows, and WWE and MMA extravaganzas entertained millions with the suffering (whether feigned or authentic) of others, there was the wildly popular yet short-lived…
The Wildest Art Stories of 2023
Centuries ago, in 2022, the FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art and hauled away 25 fake Basquiats that had been on public display as the real deal for five months. Not one to be outdone, the year 2023 brought…
Sebastian Foster Announces 30 Artists for Their Eclectic Fall Print Set — Colossal
#posters and prints #sponsor December 14, 2023 Sebastian Foster Amy Dury. All images courtesy of Sebastian Foster, shared with permission Austin-based gallery Sebastian Foster continues its 2023 Fall Print Set, marking the 11th anniversary of the collection since it…
In Surreal Portraits, Rafael Silveira Plunges Into the Mysteries of the Human Psyche — Colossal
Art #oil painting #painting #plants #portraits #Rafael Silveira #surreal December 17, 2023 Jackie Andres “Extravaso.” All images © Rafael Silveira, shared with permission Brazilian artist Rafael Silveira supplants heads with bunches of flowers, flocks of birds, and plumes of…
In a Neighborly Portrait Series, Ashraful Arefin Turns His Gaze Toward Four-Legged Passersby — Colossal
Photography #animals #Ashraful Arefin #portraits #street photography December 14, 2023 Grace Ebert All images © Ashraful Arefin, shared with permission In Animals from the streets, photographer Ashraful Arefin takes a moment to greet the furry creatures that join the…
A Reissued Book Reveals Hundreds of Photos from Frida Kahlo’s Personal Collection — Colossal
Art History Photography #art history #black and white #books #Frida Kahlo December 16, 2023 Grace Ebert Adolfo Best Maugard, María Luisa Cabrera de Block, and Frida Kahlo, (1945). All images © 2010 Banco de México in its capacity as…
Two Newly Discovered (and Very Tiny) Rembrandt Paintings Are On View for the First Time in 200 Years — Colossal
Art #art history #painting #portraits December 15, 2023 Grace Ebert Rembrandt portraits Jan and Jaapgen. All images courtesy of Rijksmuseum/Olivier Middendorp Standing just under eight inches tall, two oval portraits rediscovered after 200 years are now considered Rembrandt’s smallest…
Meticulous Embroideries by Cécile Davidovici Bring Objects to Life and Evoke the Passing of Time — Colossal
Art Craft #Cécile Davidovici #embroidery #portraits #still life December 15, 2023 Jackie Andres All images © Cécile Davidovici, shared with permission Through densely embroidered still lifes and portraits, Cécile Davidovici stitches together a dialogue between time, objects, and nostalgia….
Uncanny Woven Portraits by Jason Chen Splice Two Moments in Time — Colossal
Art Photography #Jason Chen #portraits #weaving December 14, 2023 Grace Ebert “Coming to an End.” All images © Jason Chen, shared with permission Rather than capture a single moment, Jason Chen (previously) weaves together photographs taken just seconds apart,…
Colossal Releases Two New Limited-Edition Prints with Jon Ching — Colossal
“Sanguines.” All images © Jon Ching, shared with permission We’re thrilled to announce our next limited-edition print release with Jon Ching (previously). Longtime Colossal readers will recognize Ching’s fantastic hybrids, which seamlessly meld flora and fauna into otherworldly compositions. In…
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