Category: Arts Entertainments

LA Louver, the oldest extant gallery in Los Angeles, will be closing its space in Venice this fall and transitioning to focus on private art dealing and consulting, according to an announcement today, September 16. Alongside this pivot, the gallery will be donating its archive and library spanning 50 years of correspondence, photography, publications, objects,…

Serj Tankian’s abstract paintings have complex layers of a handful of colors that evoke a deep emotional longing that can be hard to describe. But his works come alive in unexpected ways when accompanied by music he composed especially for them.  “I see music and visual art as extensions of the same soul. When I…

Co-defendants Raunaq Alam and Afsheen Khan at the Tarrant County courthouse last week (photo by and courtesy Stacey Monroe) Texas prosecutors are seeking 10-year prison sentences for activists accused of anti-Zionist graffiti.  The three defendants — Raunaq Alam, Afsheen Khan, and another unnamed individual — were indicted on vandalism charges with hate crime enhancements after…

MEDFORD, Mass. — Fabric works bookend Beverly Semmes’s Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick at the Tufts University Art Galleries. Yet the exhibition’s 45-year span evidences a dramatic range of interests. Performance is one throughline, with objects inspired by costumes or props taking on an independent existence. Another is the insistent materiality of fabric, clay,…

SAN FRANCISCO — Few figures are more beloved in San Francisco than Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The late poet, publisher, editor, essayist, critic, and bookseller might be best known to most people for his 1958 poetry collection Coney Island of the Mind, which has sold over a million copies — or for being arrested on obscenity charges…

Lingít and Unangax̂ artist Nicholas Galanin and Mexican-American sculptor Margarita Cabrera withdrew from a symposium at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) today, September 12, alleging that the institution’s decision to make the event private effectively censored participants amid pressure from the Trump administration. “I come from a lineage that has endured attempted erasure through…

Opening of the “New York Pavilion” of the Gaza Biennale at Recess in Brooklyn (all photos Diba Mohtasham/Hyperallergic, unless otherwise noted) The nearly 10-minute docudrama Live Broadcast by Palestinian filmmaker Emad Badwan opens with the voice of a man over a scene of people walking through a refugee camp. “We never imagined that all the…

For nearly four decades, more than 2,000 artists flocked to the alternative nonprofit Art in General (AiG), whose accessible and diverse programming helped propel the early careers of Pope.L, Cecilia Vicuña, Joan Jonas, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Patty Chang, Sanford Biggers, Kay WalkingStick, and many more. AiG was a bright star for emerging artists in New York…

“Art magazine! Very, very interesting, Lakshmi. I see you’re doing very important work,” said consulate agent Sherly Fan. “I personally would love to grant everyone an Extraordinary Talent Visa. However, you’ve got to roll the dice to determine your future.” The sparkly, jumbo-sized die landed on RFE — Request for Evidence. Fan stamped the first…

On an absolutely perfect day — warm but not hot, not a cloud in the bright blue sky — a giant bronze squirrel wearing what can only be described as acorn regalia looks out over an Upper East Side crowd with (literally) beady eyes.  It’s just one of the four 10-foot bronze sculptures that make up…

‣ For Dazed, artist and activist Nan Goldin speaks with Mahmoud Khalil about his illegal detention over his support of the Gaza solidarity movement at Columbia University: Nan Goldin: What can we do now? That’s my biggest question. Mahmoud Khalil: To me, the thing is just to not lose hope and to continue putting pressure on the system, because…

S-21 is the name of a former high school in Phnom Penh that Pol Pot turned into a secret torture center and extermination camp. Between 1975 and 1979, 14,200 people were executed there. For the sake of the regime’s bureaucracy, every man, woman, and child was photographed just before entering the center where they were…

BOSTON — Dainty, fussy, and prim: These are the common connotations of a flower still life. Such paintings often suggest garden clubs and floral arrangements and life in the safe lane. One might think an entire exhibition of them could be a bit of a bore. This notion belies the sensuous density of flowers —…

“Make work.” Laura James shared this concise yet powerful mantra with me during a visit to her Bronx studio in West Farms. A poster bearing the phrase hangs on her wall — a nod, she explained, to the influence of Marcus Garvey’s industrious philosophy. James doesn’t seek institutional permission; she makes art relentlessly, owns the…

On November 29, 1947, an exhibition featuring 53 oil paintings by the Palestinian-Lebanese artist Maroun Tomb opened at a Maronite church in Haifa, Palestine. It would be Tomb’s last exhibition in the nation. The show’s opening date also marked the United Nations’s approval of Resolution 181, the Partition Plan of Palestine, which eventually led to…

The art world has seen its fair share of eyebrow-raising brand collaborations in recent years. Damien Hirst made a bag for Prada festooned with bejeweled insects. Shepherd Fairey displayed his street art works on digital TVs in a partnership with LG Electronics at Frieze LA. And this spring, Takashi Murakami teamed up with Louis Vuitton…

LONDON — An exquisite rhythm rolls across the sheer mass of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s paintings, produced in prolific bursts of creativity between 1980 and 1996, the last decade and a half of her life. As she worked at the forefront of a movement that sought to translate millennia-old Aboriginal cultural traditions onto media such as…

Obsession often does an artist good. That idea she can’t stop thinking about, that uncompleted project that keeps her up at night — such fixations compel her to create, focus her efforts, and keep her returning to the desk, the stage, the studio. But not all obsessions are equally generative.  Stephanie Wambugu’s stimulating debut novel,…

As I circled around the dozens of booths along the three wide lanes at Art on Paper on Thursday, September 4, one stood out above the rest. On the bare white walls were Moleskine journals, much like the small ones I use, except these were spread open to Nicolas V Sanchez’s ballpoint pen drawings of…

Robert Grosvenor, whose work resisted artistic classification for more than six decades, died in Long Island, New York, on Wednesday, September 3, at the age of 88. His death was announced by Paula Cooper Gallery, which has represented the artist since the gallery opened in 1968. Grosvenor was primarily known for large-scale abstract sculptures, although…

Eduardo Holgado encounters most of his art on Instagram now, perusing posts from galleries and artists before ever setting foot in a fair. But when it comes time to buy, the collector, who is in his early 30s, still needs to experience the work in person. It’s Thursday, September 4, day one of the Armory…

Calling Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka’s solo presentation at the Armory Show a “booth” feels somehow wrong, like a reduction of the all-encompassing sanctum that she and Toronto gallery Patel Brown assembled for the Manhattan art fair. Suspended gently from wooden rods are billowing linocut and gyotaku prints on handmade Japanese washi paper in deep indigos and…

Historian and curator Kim Sajet, who recently left her longtime post as director at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) after President Donald Trump claimed he had fired her, will be the next director of the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM), the institution announced yesterday, September 3. Sajet will assume the new role on September 22, succeeding…

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch sent a letter to the Trump administration responding to a list of demands the White House presented last month as it attempts to assert control over the institution. Bunch’s direct response to the White House comes more than three weeks after the administration attempted to compel the museum and research network…

Left to right: Tempestt Hazel, American Meredith, Jessica Lynne, Nicole Martinez, Paul Chaat Smith, Eva Recinos, Brandy McDonnell, and J Worham (photo by Kevin J. Miyazak, courtesy Rabkin Foundation) The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation named eight arts writers as recipients of its prestigious annual prize in recognition of the contributions of visual arts journalists….

A view of the 508-534 West 26th Street building complex in West Chelsea, Manhattan (photo Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) An esteemed nonprofit wants to turn a West Chelsea arts building on the market into an artist residency program while keeping longtime tenants in their studios. The Wolff Building at 508-534 West 26th Street was listed on the…

PM_Config.PM_BasePath = “https://cdn2.amuselabs.com/pmm/”; We love a good museum visit, and we’re guessing you do, too — test your knowledge with this month’s puzzle to kick off fall, with clues on Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic rotunda, the Parisian railway station that became an art museum, LA’s storied art museum and research center, and more.

“Who was Marian Spore Bush?” The question begins an essay by Bob Nickas, who curated the exhibition Marian Spore Bush: Life Afterlife, Works c. 1919–1945, currently at Karma. The artist’s first solo exhibition in almost 80 years, it feels extraordinarily modern in both style and content. Vivid, saturated watercolors of flowers and Christian allegories in…

LOS ANGELES — Truthfully, Nancy Buchanan: A Retrospective at the Brick, a comprehensive survey of the LA-based artist’s work, is as sprawling and diverse as the city she calls home. Buchanan studied art at the University of California, Irvine, from 1965 to 1971, along with fellow classmates (and single mothers) Barbara T. Smith and Marcia…

Each year, come September, we all pretend the world isn’t burning and put on our best oversized shirt to work our way through the maze of booths that is New York’s Armory Show. For those of you who want to know where to go and what to see, here’s our guide to the fall’s fairs….

LONDON — Some of the Courtauld’s previous exhibitions have suffered from insufficient curation. Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Alice Adams, Eva Hesse, on the other hand, strikes the exact right balance. Drawing on scholar Jo Applin’s research, curator Alexandra Gerstein has taken as a starting point the work of feminist curator and critic Lucy Lippard, who coined the titular…

In 2019, Hugo Crosthwaite became the first Latino artist to win the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) prestigious triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The Tijuana-born and San Diego-based illustrator received the contest’s grand prize: $25,000 and a portrait commission for the museum’s permanent collection. He chose to depict Anthony Fauci, then the director of the…

Since 1973, Vincent van Gogh masterpieces including his beloved sunflowers, wistful wheatfields, and self-portraits have been housed in Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. The institution was established via a historic 1962 agreement between the painter’s nephew and the Dutch government to ensure the long-term preservation of hundreds of paintings, drawings, and letters comprising van Gogh’s oeuvre….

A round of layoffs at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) this summer is raising alarms at one of the best-known arts schools in the country as the institution grapples with rising costs.  The Santa Clarita-based private arts school laid off nine administrative employees in July, including five unionized workers and four non-union workers,…

Initiated in 2006, the NY Art Book Fair (NYABF) is a celebration and international gathering for artists’ book publishers to distribute their work, connect with broad audiences, and nurture new and longstanding relationships. This year’s fair marks an exciting and long-awaited return to MoMA PS1, Printed Matter’s venue partner from 2009–2019, a pivotal decade in…

A round of layoffs at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) this summer is raising alarms at one of the best-known arts schools in the country as the institution grapples with rising costs.  The Santa Clarita-based private arts school laid off 12 administrative employees in July, including five unionized workers and seven non-union workers,…

SAN MARINO, Calif. — Standing in the gallery of Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight, you are bathed in oceanic, cobalt blue light. The buzz of neon lights drones in the background. It’s hard to say if the temperature has truly dropped, or if it’s psychosomatic, that the atmosphere has cooled your skin just by the power…

The Molina Family Latino Gallery at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, which has served as the home of the nascent Latino museum, will stay closed until April 2026. (all images courtesy Felipe Galindo) On Friday morning, August 22, illustrator Felipe Galindo Gómez opened his email to find a note from his friend. “Have…

LONDON — Of all the YBAs (Young British Artists) of the 1990s — including upstarts like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, mouthing off petulantly to the art establishment with dead livestock and unmade beds — it is Jenny Saville who has been most entrenched in the history of art. It is also Saville who can…

It’s about that time of year when the slight crisping of the air signals that the balmy summer is departing, but hasn’t disappeared just yet. Suddenly, the fluorescent lights, lively chatter, and overpriced opening wine flowing onto the New York City streets beckon the passerby who has spent all summer tanning in Central Park. It’s…

Amy Sherald, the painter most widely known for her portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama, detailed her decision to withdraw her exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) amid concerns over censorship at the institution in a new opinion piece. On MSNBC’s opinion blog last Sunday, August 24, Sherald condemned the Trump administration’s…

Raphael, “The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna)” (1509–11) (image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) “How generous and kind Heaven sometimes proves to be,” mused Italian Renaissance artist and historian Giorgio Vasari, “when it brings together in a single person the boundless riches of its…

Ferocious desert stormwinds have swept away a colossal Ukrainian artwork within hours of its installation at the annual Burning Man cultural festival in Nevada. A visual metaphor for the impending threat of war, the 50-foot-tall (~15.2-meter-tall) inflatable “Black Cloud” was destroyed shortly after debuting at the Black Rock Desert event yesterday, August 24, on Ukraine’s…

Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta painter Danielle SeeWalker has settled a civil rights lawsuit with the town of Vail, Colorado, more than a year after the municipality cancelled her artist residency over a pro-Palestine artwork. Brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado, the suit claimed that the town had violated the artist’s constitutional right to…

LONDON — There is something both frightening and fascinating about a sculpture that could kill you. Hamad Butt’s Familiars (1992) is a series of three sculptures that, if broken, could toxify the air and cause significant harm. “Familiars 3: Cradle” resembles a huge Newton’s cradle, common as a desk toy, wherein a ball is dropped…

The Surrealists understood that so much depends on context: What is ordinary lining a glove, for instance, becomes grotesque in a teacup. Angolan artist Sandra Poulson — who studied fashion in Lisbon and London, and lives between the latter, Angola’s capital, Luanda, and Amsterdam — operates under a similar ethos of off-kilter recontextualization. In her…

The Orange Avenue crossing before and after it was paved over (image courtesy Office of Mayor Buddy Dyer) Orlando residents and Florida public officials are decrying the state’s removal of a rainbow crosswalk memorial honoring the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting.  Late Wednesday evening, August 20, state officials reportedly paved over a multicolored…

Kenny Nguyen: The Divine Eye is an evocative, large-scale installation that invites viewers to engage with the rich spiritual and cultural history of Vietnam through the lens of Caodaism. Rooted in the synthesis of Eastern and Western philosophies, Caodaism — a syncretic religion founded in Vietnam in the 1920s — serves as both inspiration and…

Pieces of limestone buildings, marble and granite royal statues, and the remains of a merchant ship are among the relics of an ancient sunken city retrieved by Egyptian authorities off the shores of Alexandria. Dating back more than 2,000 years, the artifacts were reportedly hoisted from a submerged archaeological site in Abu Qir Bay yesterday,…

GREENWICH, Conn. — Jeremy Frey weaves slim strips of wood into mesmerizing patterns and color combinations with extreme precision. In each impeccable vessel, ancestral Wabanaki basketmaking traditions crisscross with the Passamaquoddy artist’s distinctive creative vision, and wood harvested from ash trees, sweetgrass, and other foraged materials turn kaleidoscopic, with dizzying geometric patterns and colorwork. A…

Rigoberto A. González, “Refugees Crossing the Border Wall into South Texas” (2020) was among the artworks targeted in a statement from the White House on August 21, 2025. (photo courtesy the artist) In the wake of Trump’s Truth Social rant earlier this week, in which he accused the Smithsonian of focusing too much on “how…

The south of France is known for its idyllic coastal climate, lush vineyards, and charming villages that date back to Roman times. But for now, the region wants you to think of Paul Cézanne, a Provence native son whose focus on the underlying geometrical shapes of objects and multiple viewpoints within a painting inspired many…

John Everett Millais, “Ophelia” (1851-2) (image via Wikimedia Commons, PDM 1.0) A 19th-century artwork that has inspired artists from Surrealist Salvador Dalí to contemporary painter Ed Ruscha may be the influence behind the cover for Taylor Swift’s forthcoming album, The Life of A Showgirl. The dramatic teal green and reddish-orange cover art, shared by Swift…

Four months into the run of his career retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contemporary artist Rashid Johnson appeared on CBS Sunday Morning this week to discuss 30 years of art making. Johnson sat down with the network’s Alina Cho at his studio and the museum amid his exhibition A Poem for Deep Thinkers,…

Mickalene Thomas’s former fiancée and business partner has accused the contemporary artist of sexual harassment, nonpayment, and workplace retaliation in a lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court on August 8. Racquel Chevremont is seeking at least $10 million, as well as interest and attorneys’ fees, in “redress for years of exploitation, nonpayment, and…

Leon Black at the Museum of Modern Art’s film benefit on November 19, 2018 (photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) A Democratic senator and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee is calling for a probe into the embattled financier and Museum of Modern Art trustee Leon Black over payments he made to sex predator Jeffrey…

SANTA FE — Every third weekend in August, New Mexico’s capital becomes a hub of Indigenous creativity for the Santa Fe Indian Market, hosted by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA). This year, the air felt charged as lightning propelled down from monsoon-filled clouds at the start of the weekend, but it didn’t take…

The 14th iteration of the BlackStar Film Festival returned to Philadelphia from July 31 to August 3 with a robust program championing independent Black, Brown, and Indigenous film and media artists. BlackStar’s commitment to uplifting such voices is especially resonant due to the Trump administration’s sweeping dismantling of DEI measures; the festival’s 92 films from…

PARIS — The bowl cut, the cats, the heart-shaped potatoes. The predilection for loopy plots and faces hidden in household objects. Whether posing with angel wings or swallowed by a giant Muppet-like coat, the late artist and filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928–2019) has long been a patron saint of the unabashedly eccentric. A master of self-invention,…

Why should the creator of the artwork only get 50%? (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) August is when the capitalist parts of the art world go to sleep. This summer’s pause by the Art Dealers Association of America’s Art Show (ADAA) makes that quiet feel even heavier. The fair has long been a commercial anchor for…

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BRISTOL, England — Last year, Bristol’s Arnolfini cancelled two Bristol Palestine Film Festival events, leading to controversy and a boycott. After mediation with local groups such as Bristol Artists for Palestine, Arnolfini issued a statement apologizing for the decision and committing to upholding Palestinian freedom of expression in the future. Their current exhibition, Standing by…

The Trump administration will begin a “comprehensive internal review” of the Smithsonian Institution, including an examination of exhibitions, curatorial processes, educational materials, and programming related to the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding. In a letter addressed to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch yesterday, August 12, White House officials asked the institution to turn…

Mark Rothko’s former apartment and studio in Manhattan’s Lenox Hill, where he created the paintings for his renowned Rothko Chapel in Texas, is back on the market.  Sotheby’s Realty is asking $9.5 million for the red-brick converted carriage house at 157 East 69th Street, according to a listing. Built in 1884 by German-American architect William…

LOS ANGELES — A circa 1848 daguerrotype featuring a nude lesbian couple engaging in foreplay meets Matías Sauter Morera’s AI-assisted fictional portrait of what he terms a “pegamacho,” a rural heterosexual Costa Rican man known to have discreet sexual encounters with gay men, in Queer Lens: A History of Photography at the Getty Museum. This…

Museum visitors in Singapore have reportedly had difficulty keeping their hands off a wall installation consisting of dozens of mounted eggplants. The artwork, “Still Life” (1992/2025) by Suzann Victor, is part of the ongoing exhibition Singapore Stories: Pathways and Detours in Art at the National Gallery Singapore (NGS). The Strait Times reported earlier this month that visitors had…

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CHICAGO — Nearly every summer in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs, some genuinely dumb public art is trotted out for the entertainment of visitors and residents alike. Sometimes it’s life-size fiberglass cows, other times giant butterflies. The most dreadful ones are readymade kits of vibrant junk that cities can mail-order to jazz up their shopping…

Kour Pour, “Twice Removed” (2025), acrylic, block ink, and esphand on shaped canvases (all images courtesy Kour Pour Studio, unless otherwise noted) LOS ANGELES — For artist Kour Pour, challenging the Euro-American art historical canon has been a decade-long pursuit. In 2015, the artist began a research project titled “Re-Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925” that was later…

If we need anything from art at this dire time, it’s faith and fun. The shows below encourage flights into the imagination or nurture hope for the future. Artist Tove Jansson and her Moomins creations are nothing if not beacons of warmth and inclusivity, while EJ Hill’s installation and endurance performance transforms 52 Walker gallery…

Amy Sherald, “As American as Apple Pie” (2020) in Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum of American Art (photo Hyperallergic) Once, when I was involved in a romance that was slowly coming to a close, I described to my then-partner that I felt like my life was losing color. On seeing Amy Sherald’s…

The cinematic journey in Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People) (2024) begins in the Mexican countryside. Modern civilization — signified by concrete, metal, and powerlines — peeks through the green landscape to reveal a more rigid world of roads, chain-link fences, and pools, the latter eventually dominating the screen. The film tells the story of the accidental…

Public art has no single form — it’s that mural you pass on your daily commute, the sculpture gracing your favorite local park, a statue installed near a busy intersection. Test your knowledge of public art gems from around the world in this month’s themed puzzle, from the Windy City to Paris. Natan Last’s essays,…

LOS ANGELES — “The art department is one excellent example of how the arts of peace become the arts of war,” says the narrator of a United States Army film production over documentary footage of male figures drawing before it cuts to a clip of an animated cartoon plane “learning” to fly. The short video…

HOUSTON — To say that I’m drawn to Jillian Conrad’s art might sound like an all-too-easy pun in a review of a show that explores drawing, but the sentiment holds. Since the early aughts, I’ve been following the psychic line of her practice. Conrad’s work marks the distance between what we see and how we…

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The Department of Homeland Security posted John Gast’s 1872 painting “American Progress” (screenshot Hyperallergic, via X) Prussian painter John Gast’s 1872 composition “American Progress,” now held by the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, isn’t very good. An unsubtle celebration of Manifest Destiny, the 19th-century American mania for westward expansion at the…

The Smithsonian Institution has removed a label from the National Museum of American History exhibition The American Presidency that referenced Donald Trump’s two impeachments. The news of the removal was first reported this week by the Washington Post and confirmed to Hyperallergic by a Smithsonian spokesperson. The exhibition alteration comes months after the Trump administration…

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Portrait of American artist Raymond Saunders (1970s) (photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images) Raymond Saunders, whose collage-based paintings and installation works grappled with the complexities of lived experience, racial identity, and broader sociopolitical structures, died on July 19 in Oakland, California. He was 90 years old. The news of his death was announced in a joint…

A 34-year-old man died after a fall from the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan on Wednesday, July 30. Police responded to a 911 call at around 5:26pm, the New York Police Department (NYPD) told Hyperallergic. Upon arrival at 99 Gansevoort Street, they found the man “unconscious and unresponsive on the sidewalk outside the location…

A visitor leaves a “birthday wish” for the United States’ 250th Anniversary at the New York Historical (photo courtesy the museum) I work at the New York Historical, a national history museum in New York City, and am tasked with helping to build thoughtful programming on how to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026.  …

Picture this: You are a set of clothes hangers strung out on a rooftop clothesline, placed there by a family trying to extend their supply of square footage and fresh air in their small apartment (“Drying Laundry,” 2004). You are part of the family order created and maintained by the mother and captured by the…

Sometimes it seems like the art world has a short attention span, skipping from one trend to the next, so it’s satisfying to find exhibitions that hold onto histories and memories. In different ways, the shows below all maintain a connection with the past. For artists Candida Alvarez and Thomas Holton, this may mean summoning…

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — “EN CADA BESO UNA REVOLUCIÓN.” “LESBIANAS. UNIDAS. ¡FELICES!” Such battle cries embody the poetic optimism of Latina lesbian activism across borders at the Vincent Price Art Museum’s On the Side of Angels. Captured by posters for marches in Mexico City and Washington, DC, respectively, and made nearly 20 years apart, they chart…

A drawing by Daniel Johnston (image courtesy Daniel Johnston Trust, all others Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic) I was in my second year of college when I first heard about the alternative folk artist Daniel Johnston. It was the fall of 2017, two years before his death, and a classmate I liked wanted to show me a song….

Helen Chadwick, latex costume used in “Domestic Sanitation” (1976) (© Estate of Helen Chadwick) It is perhaps a testament to the enduring power of the titular British artist’s oeuvre that, even at a substantial 272 pages, Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures still feels as if it is only scratching the surface of her work and life….

Still from Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez’s TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025), which will kick off this year’s BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia (all images courtesy BlackStar Film Festival) A prolific storyteller, transformative educator, and devoted political activist, Toni Cade Bambara dedicated her life’s work to countering hegemonic institutional power…

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I spent a few weeks abroad this summer, and it was a relief to be away from the United States and its deluge of bad news — but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss San Francisco and its thriving art scene. If you’re similarly playing catch-up, look no further than this list…

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), the umbrella institution overseeing the de Young and Legion of Honor museums in the city, laid off 12 workers, citing a 20% drop in museum visitors since the pandemic and “increased operational costs.” The layoffs affected approximately 3.5% of FAMSF’s total workforce, which comprises roles funded by…

LOS ANGELES — In 1933, German-Jewish artist, art collector, and art dealer Galka Scheyer commissioned architect Richard Neutra to build her a house in the Hollywood Hills. Scheyer had moved to the United States in 1924 with the goal of promoting European modern art, specifically a group of artists known as the Blue Four: Lyonel…

Refik Anadol set himself up for failure. For his latest work, the artist best known for his shapeshifting AI installation at the Museum of Modern Art set out to immortalize a moment of sports legend: Lionel Messi’s 2009 towering header goal for FC Barcelona, which helped clinch its victory against Manchester United in the UEFA…

New York City-born artist and provocateur Andres Serrano wants the United States Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale to showcase his apparently uncritical display of more than a thousand Trump memorabilia items, including a flattering, warm-hued portrait of the president he took in 2004 as part of his series America. Serrano, who rose to notoriety…

The month of July brings Upstate Art Weekend (UAW), an annual summer cornucopia of art in the region. Launched in 2020 with 23 organizations, UAW has expanded to include more than 155 participants located across the map, from Nyack in the south and Kinderhook in the north to Roscoe in the west and Wassaic to…

President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the second time in the government’s latest blow to global cultural heritage preservation. In a brief statement posted to the Department of State website on Tuesday, July 22, spokesperson Tammy Bruce said UNESCO’s recognition of Palestine as…

CHICAGO — Do people need art? I know I always have, as something to enjoy, discuss, learn from, be puzzled by, and sometimes create. Obviously, I need food, shelter, and clothing first, but beyond that, art has given me a myriad of ways through which to engage with the world in all its fantastic, boring,…

A day after Independence Day in the United States, the world’s richest man announced on X that he would form a new political party called the America Party. A follow-up from Elon Musk revealed that he intended to break up the current “uniparty” system through the use of an Ancient Greek military tactic, “a variant…

Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” reimagined for the moment (via @memequeen and @esixus on Instagram, all screenshots Hyperallgic) As we all vie for a distraction from the world’s woes, an alleged affair exposed via the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert has become the meme of the summer. Over the past week, the internet has been reveling…

Every year, two dozen artists from around the world travel to the United States to participate in a month-long summer residency at the nonprofit arts center Art Omi. The highly competitive program is held at the organization’s 120-acre campus in Ghent, New York, where it also hosts residencies focused on architecture, dance, music, and writing….

CHICAGO — The history of art, stated curator Jonathan D. Katz, “is both the world’s largest archive of the history of sexuality and its least tapped.” This may be a good place to begin to unpack the immense, important, ambitious, challenging, and intellectual exhibition The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity 1869–1939 at…

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A crude sketch of a naked woman allegedly hand-drawn by President Donald Trump was in a salacious 50th birthday album gifted to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Wall Street Journal report published yesterday, July 17. Trump has denied authoring the note and filed a lawsuit against the Journal less than 24 hours after…

Hyperallergic Members are invited to join us on August 12, 2025, for a virtual conversation with two renowned artists about the materiality of paint: Rina Banerjee and Ellie Irons. The speakers will delve into the particularities of working with different pigments and surfaces, the process and chemistry behind creating their own paint, and how they…

Few of Japan’s great photographers had a career as bold and multifaceted as Masahisa Fukase. Though largely defined by his black and white magnum opus Ravens (1986), a book of photographs in which the photographer casts himself as the grim black bird, Fukase managed to express facets of himself through many different proxies. He shot…

A documentary can sometimes tell a viewer more about the time it was made than the one it recounts. This holds especially true for films about the Renaissance, which has been so meticulously covered that new revelations are farther and fewer between. The three-part BBC docuseries Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty, currently airing and…

SAN FRANCISCO — Ruth Asawa’s infant son, Paul, lies on a blanket in a tender ink drawing entitled “Untitled (FF.1234, Paul Lanier on a Blanket)” (c. 1962–63). Paul takes up just a small portion of the overall composition, his clothing rendered through hatch marks that blend in with those filling the rest of the picture…

Crypto mogul Justin Sun is — unsurprisingly — making another controversial investment decision, and this time, we wish it were just an overpriced fruit duct-taped to a wall.  Last Wednesday, July 9, the notorious buyer of Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” (2019) announced that he is purchasing $100 million worth of President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency token, $TRUMP. Already…

The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven has withdrawn two federal grant requests for a forthcoming Southeast African art exhibition in the wake of Trump’s bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming and initiatives. To cover the $200,000 funding gap, the oldest university art museum in America will rely on its endowment to…

HAMBURG, Germany — Only July 9, 1975, the artist Bas Jan Ader, age 33, set sail from Cape Cod, intending to cross the Atlantic in a 12.6-foot vessel called Ocean Wave and then mount an exhibition at the Groninger Museum in his native Netherlands. The journey was, famously, never completed. The battered boat was found…

It’s that time of the year again when the sweltering, swampy heat of New York City has even the cockroaches stumbling down its sidewalks. For those who find themselves among the swarms of city folk hopping aboard the Hudson Line this week to catch their breath and clear their heads in the Catskills, be sure…

Nearly 150 artists, curators, and other cultural figures signed an open letter denouncing the Centre Pompidou-Metz’s decision to abruptly call off an exhibition centering on contemporary Franco-Creole, Caribbean French, and Guyanese art. The cancellation, which was formalized in a June 10 notice, followed months of planning and a series of tense text message exchanges between…

Julia Margaret Cameron, “Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die!” (1867), carbon print (© The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A) One word that kept coming to mind as I thought about the shows below is “visionary.” Whether it’s reimagining the ways that women are discussed in literature or centered in photography, or…

The sky has been a source of inspiration for artists since time immemorial. But our collective understanding of just how far into the past artistic representations of this expanse may reach — and how faithfully they reflect actual cosmology — is an ever-changing picture. New research published in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage…

The history of photography has made it clear that the camera is a subjective tool. The glass lens frames the story differently depending on who is doing the looking, and how. So what are we to make of the images of a woman in a glass house, the history of which has been obscured by…

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One of the best parts about aging, as an artist and a woman, is finding untapped confidence and reaching the absolute heights of your technical abilities and means of expression. Unless you are photographer Annie Leibovitz, whose recent Vogue cover shoot with actor Anne Hathaway, in support of her forthcoming A24 film Mother Mary, has…

Shamim M. Momin will begin her tenure as director and chief curator of the Bronx Museum. (photo by Sue de Beer, courtesy Bronx Museum) Shamim M. Momin, cofounder of the public art nonprofit Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), will lead the Bronx Museum beginning this September. The museum announced Momin’s appointment as director and chief…

The Buffalo News published a cartoon about the Texas floods that sparked outrage from some audiences. (screenshot Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic via @adamzyglis on Instagram) An event that spotlighted the work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at the Buffalo History Museum was postponed this week following mounting public backlash, including alleged death threats, over a recent illustration…

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Federal agents paid an unexpected visit to the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture (NMPRAC) in Chicago earlier this week in what the museum has described as a “targeted” attempt to intimidate staff and visitors ahead of a lineup of Latine cultural celebrations.  Security footage shared with Hyperallergic shows two individuals, one wearing…

Artist and Gao Brothers member Gao Zhen, who has been held in a Chinese detention center for nearly a year on accusations of violating the country’s infamously repressive anti-defamation laws, has hired a leading human rights lawyer to represent him in court after refusing to plead guilty and accept a three-year prison sentence.  Sources close…

On the heels of a historic municipal work stoppage that left Philadelphia’s streets drowning in mounting garbage piles, unionized staff at the Penn Museum are inching toward a strike to obtain higher wages from the University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in the city. Members of Penn Museum Workers United Local 397, which represents…

Swedish artist and designer Moki Cherry had a boundless art practice that extended out to the literal walls of her daily existence. This fall, a retrospective at the Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) in Philadelphia will explore the breadth and scope of this kaleidoscopic and eclectic artist through her fiber works, costumes, ceramics, sound and…

It’s been nearly a month since 21-year-old Mads Mikkelsen was denied entry into the United States after border agents discovered a bloated JD Vance meme and a photo of a pipe on his cell phone. Though Mikkelsen is back at home in Norway instead of visiting his friends and exploring US national parks with his…

Community members in Plainfield, Illinois, unveiled a monument late last month honoring six-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi, who was murdered by his family’s landlord in an anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate crime in 2023. Depicting Alfayoumi’s silhouette with his right hand raised to complete a red heart shape, the public artwork was unveiled on Saturday, June 28 at a…

Answer: They’re in this month’s crossword! Dig into our July art puzzle with more clues on the French term that gave Fauvism its name, Ai Weiwei’s infamous photo series, the Central Park Fountain designed by a queer 19th-century sculptor, and more. Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in the New Yorker, the Atlantic,…

LONDON — In a small rural village in Scotland, an advertisement-style billboard by Milly Thompson (1964–2022) depicted two women in swimwear and scuba gear, swinging their hair in joyful abandon. The models, however, were middle-aged women rather than slim young girls, their faces free of make-up and their skin showing wrinkles and stretch marks. This…

As another Independence Day comes and goes, and our nation is increasingly compromised, we lean ever further into our collective dedication to art and the creative courage it delivers throughout the season. This July, the bounty of exhibitions in Upstate New York includes a solo show of abstract paintings by Philip Gebhardt and spiritually infused…

The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), the only four-year school devoted to contemporary Indigenous arts, could lose all of its federal funding beginning October 1 if President Trump’s proposed federal budget is passed. Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget proposal suggests completely eliminating funding for the IAIA, which received approximately $13 million in the prior…

A refusal to adhere to distinct categories, a breakdown of hierarchies, and an embrace of hybridity are a few common threads among this month’s exhibitions. At Karma, Mungo Thomson plumbs the depths of mundane visual culture to create entrancing stop-motion videos. A Llyn Foulkes survey at The Pit celebrates this LA legend, a master of…

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To our friends of the human persuasion: Ten years ago the Muppets made a show called The Great Moments in American History. We really do wish that we could make a sequel. But we’re too worried about the direction this country is heading. No PBS? Banned books? ICE raids at kids’ schools?  Yikes! It’s not…

“May we wake up from the nightmare that is our current leadership by voting for leaders who care about the people and fulfill our potential as a great country.” — Shelly, Washington, DC “Happy Birthday, America! We’re back baby!!! GOD Bless America.” — Sarah, Tennessee “I pray that our 250th anniversary will not be our…

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Take a moment to recall the last time you heard the sound of the ocean. Maybe it’s been years, or perhaps you’re listening to its roar right now. Wherever this summer brings you, I hope you’ll find something meditative in the pages of this month’s art books. A new title on Edith Farnsworth, owner of…

Artist Khaled Sabsabi (left) and curator Michael Dagostino (right) (photo by Anna Kucera for Creative Australia) Artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino will represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale after Creative Australia, the selection body for the country’s pavilion, reversed a controversial decision to drop the pair earlier this year. The organization’s board…

AUSTIN — Nora Naranjo Morse and Eliza Naranjo Morse: Lifelong at the Blanton Museum of Art is part of In Creative Harmony: Three Artistic Partnerships, a larger project at the museum that looks at the relationships between three artist pairs: the Nanranjo Morse mother and daughter duo, Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi, and José Guadalupe…

In the lead-up to the release of Lorde’s fourth album, Virgin, this past weekend, the singer’s social media was riddled with hints of what might come. Lorde, whose real name is Ella Marija Yelich-O’Connor, stoked hysteria in New York City’s Washington Square Park in April after she debuted her single “What Was That?” on top…

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2025 Pride Month series, spotlighting moments from New York’s LGBTQ+ art history throughout June. Whether serving as sites of protest, celebration, communal mourning, or remembrance, public parks have always played a vital role in the history of New York City’s LGBTQ+ rights movement. Across the five boroughs, from the “People’s Beach” at…

Just because something has happened before doesn’t mean it hurts any less. The United States government unleashing its military on its own people in the streets of Los Angeles, Paramount, and other Southern California cities hit me hard last week. Armored vehicles and federal agents in camouflage gear (what are they expecting to blend into?)…

HOUSTON — On April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Joe Overstreet began a new painting. The piece that would become “Justice, Faith, Hope, and Peace” (1968) takes its title from King’s impassioned words, which Overstreet interprets as colliding angles, target-like rings, and diamond-shaped central panels, diverging from the rectangular…

On my second visit to Hello Goodbye at Dimin, ceramicist Michelle Im’s first solo exhibition in New York, her terracotta flight attendants were much smaller than I remembered. Perhaps it was the press release’s reference to the Xi’an terracotta soldiers that made me think they were larger, or the combined presence of their multiplicity. Im’s…

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports immigrants and the children of immigrants in the US pursuing graduate studies — including MFAs and other full-time degrees — with up to $90,000 in funding. Each year, 30 outstanding New Americans are selected for their potential to make significant contributions to American society, culture,…

Mads Mikkelsen, a 21-year-old from Norway, was denied entry to the United States earlier this month after immigration officers uncovered a popular meme featuring a chubby, bald Vice President JD Vance on his phone. In an interview, Mikkelsen told Hyperallergic that he arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport on June 11 from Norway for a…

After nearly four decades of reigning with an iron fist, Anna Wintour is stepping down from her fiery throne as editor-in-chief of American Vogue. According to an announcement yesterday, June 26, by the magazine, the British-American fashion media executive will continue in her roles as global editorial director for Vogue and chief content officer for…

Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings is the first career-spanning museum exhibition dedicated to the drawings of the acclaimed contemporary artist. On view through January 4, 2026, this show at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City highlights more than three decades of Yuskavage’s intimate and inventive works on paper. Yuskavage is known for her charged…

Photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon, who tirelessly trained her lens on the social inequalities, painful struggles, and human resilience to which she bore witness around the world, died early Monday morning, June 30, at the age of 95. The news of her death was announced by Stephen Bulger Gallery, which has exhibited her work since 2007….

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Before the telephone rendered it obsolete, the optical telegraph was somewhat of a national fixation in 19th-century France. Petrified by the unknown, Parisians smashed an early version in 1792. Politicians were suspicious of what the author calls “mechanical monsters, secretive and strange,” in the aftermath of the French Revolution. And this “angular and winged” device’s…

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2025 Pride Month series, spotlighting moments from New York’s LGBTQ+ art history throughout June. It’s been nearly 34 years since Pepper LaBeija walked across the screen for a global audience in the opening of Jennie Livingston’s seminal documentary Paris Is Burning (1990). Rare glimpses into New York City’s Black…

I don’t tell this story often, and have never told it in such detail publicly before. However, given our current moment of crisis in the United States, only a few months into the second Trump administration, it seems an important story to tell. It is a set of experiences that were horrible to live through,…

Millions of iridescent stars, far-off remote galaxies, and swarms of hurtling asteroids are just a few of the cosmic phenomena captured in the first images taken by the world’s largest digital camera. The Vera Rubin Observatory, a new United States-funded astronomy facility stationed in central Chile, shared its inaugural findings with the public at an…

Artist’s voices aren’t always easy to listen to. Sometimes it’s because they’re speaking to uncomfortable realities that shape our societies and lives. In other cases, the art may be part of that uncomfortable reality, reflecting rather than critiquing harmful perspectives. The solo exhibitions below all represent artists with strong individual visions and voices, some more…

Italian climate activists have a blunt message for tech billionaire Jeff Bezos ahead of his lavish Venice wedding. Greenpeace Italy unfurled an enormous banner in Venice’s Piazza San Marco today, June 23, criticizing the Amazon founder as he plans to marry his fiancée, former television journalist Lauren Sánchez, in the historic city. Blanketing the public square in…

For the third year in a row, Minnesota Street Project Foundation presents the San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF), taking place July 10–13, 2025, in the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood. One of the most anticipated free, large-scale annual Bay Area arts events, SFABF celebrates art publishing and print culture, bringing together independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors,…

TUNIS — It was early spring in Tunisia, and shockingly bright bougainvillea were exploding, the sky was a bright cerulean blue, and the Mediterranean a span of endless turquoise. That riot of vibrant color outside was also found inside, at the B7L9 Art Centre, host to The Birds Are Chirping Above The Tree, the first solo…

The sculptures outside the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, breathe a sigh of relief as DeSantis’s proposal to transfer the museum is dropped. (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic, photo via Getty Images) Sarasota’s John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art will remain under the stewardship of Florida State University (FSU) for the upcoming fiscal year after…

To liberally paraphrase Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Locksley Hall,” in the summer, a young artist’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of the forthcoming 2026 Venice Biennale. With the application for proposals for the United States Pavilion (focused on “American Values”) open through the US State Department until July 30, so many proven, conscientious, and qualified…

Alice Austen, “Trude & I masked, short skirts” (August 6, 1891); Collection of Historic Richmond Town, Alice Austen Photograph Collection (all images courtesy Historic Richmond Town, unless otherwise noted) Clear Comfort, the home where photographer Alice Austen grew up and lived for the majority of her life, was not one of the large estates the…

Elizabeth Catlett, “Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison” (2003) (all photos by David Jacobs, courtesy David Felsen) In Upper Manhattan, amid the vibrant green foliage of Riverside Park, the whiz of rushing cars from the West Side highway, and the hum of bustling Harlem apartments, a 15-foot-tall bronze depicts the hollow outline of a…

The Brant Foundation’s Glenn Ligon isn’t a deep dive into the artist’s career, but it is a concise overview that does something rare: it gives the art space to connect with the viewer. The show’s eight works, all drawn from the Brant’s collection, are spread across four stories, two of which are dedicated to one…

This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2025 Pride Month series, spotlighting moments from New York’s LGBTQ+ art history throughout June. Off to one side of the Bethesda Terrace, one of the most photographed sites in Manhattan’s Central Park, visitors gathered for an impromptu salsa dancing session on Sunday, June 15, against the backdrop of “Angel of the…

You can’t spell “rainbow” without “rain.” Despite less-than-ideal weather, Brooklyn Pride Day kicked off without a hitch this past Saturday, June 14, with its annual celebration convening local queer community members and allies for family-friendly festivities in a 14-block stretch along Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue. Beginning at noon and carrying on well after the sun…

Thousands of visitors to the Louvre Museum in Paris were stuck in hours-long lines outside the institution today, June 16, when the museum shuttered for part of the day due to an unplanned staff strike. The spontaneous work stoppage, which involved gallery attendants and reception and security workers, focused on claims of poor working conditions…

“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty,” read the words on a sign bearing a shimmering gold crown dripping in red paint in Orlando, Florida, this Saturday, June 14. It was one of countless slogans reverberating across the United States this weekend, when millions of people took to the streets for “No Kings” protests against…

KATONAH, New York — In calamity and in commotion — that’s where I begin when I visit Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist at the Katonah Museum. The show includes paintings that are almost 7 by 10 feet and much smaller ones, such as “Black” (2007), which, at 28 by 24 inches, still manages to stagger me….

Kim Sajet, who has led the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) for over a decade, has resigned from her director position, weeks after President Donald Trump claimed he fired her for being a “highly partisan person” and a “strong supporter of DEI.” Sajet’s departure was first announced in an internal memo that Secretary Bunch sent…

Firelei Báez at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa features more than 30 works showcasing nearly two decades of the artist’s paintings, drawings, and multimedia installations that transport viewers through time and space, creating opportunities for wonder, reflection, and enlightenment. On view through September 21, Firelei Báez explores the multilayered legacy of colonial histories…

WASHINGTON, DC — The Indian Craft Shop, which has presented the handmade arts and crafts of federally recognized American Indians since 1938, closed on June 6. Located just blocks from the White House, it has had a historic presence in the main hallway of the massive Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building for…

Protesters with signs designed by artist Patrick Martinez in downtown LA on June 8, 2025 (photo courtesy Patrick Martinez) LOS ANGELES — In response to the ICE raids and subsequent protests that began last week in Los Angeles, several arts organizations have made statements in solidarity with immigrants and activists. On Monday, four art spaces located…

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever,” believed Napoleon Bonaparte. Fortunately, that theory doesn’t hold water for the Abstract Expressionist Beate Wheeler (1932–2017). Recently, the shadows of obscurity have thankfully evaporated to reveal a painter of teeming, resplendent color. Beate Wheeler’s Abstract Rhythms: 1960s on 10th Street, a vibrant retrospective of the artist, is on…

As a conceptual artist myself, I instinctively approached Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology (2025) with an eagerness to explore the visual storytelling within. I wanted to know: What is represented here? Is this anthology mostly painting and sculpture, or does it delve into photography, community, and performance art — mediums that often…

After nearly two years of extensive restoration, the soaring Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, has reopened to the public. The completion of the nearly $8.9 million project was celebrated last week in a ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by the New York City Department of Parks and the Prospect…

Flaming self-driving Waymo cars, “Death 2 ICE” spray-painted across the entrance of a boarded T-Mobile store, highway overpasses dotted with anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) graffiti, swaths of police cars lined up. These are some of the scenes captured by photojournalists during mass protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles over the weekend. The demonstrations…

Founded in 1925, the New York Society of Women Artists (NYSWA) has stood at the forefront of women-led artistic innovation. Their centennial exhibition Into the NOW – The Time of Our Lives, opening June 24 at Manhattan’s Ceres Gallery, reflects the visionary creativity, resiliency, and importance of women artists today. “Our Centennial is not just…

Jim Shaw, “Large Study for ‘Origin of the Species’” (2016), pencil on paper (all photos Zach Reich/Hyperallergic) Jim Shaw seems to thrive on esoteric references and unlikely juxtapositions. In the 1990s, he began his ongoing Dream Drawings series and his Oism project, reflecting his long interest in world-building. With Drawings at Gagosian — a selection…

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Two years ago, the once-lofty San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) filed for bankruptcy amid mounting debts, a failed merger with the University of San Francisco, and the decision to close its doors after matriculating the final class of 2022. The situation was so dire that the college’s administration even considered selling its crown jewel, Diego…

One of many Mean Girl references dominating the Musk-Trump feud feed (via X, all screenshots Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) Elonald. Elump. Trelon. Trusk. Mump. Whatever combined moniker you gave Elon Musk and Donald Trump as they worked in tandem to diminish any vestige of a social safety net that remained in the United States, say goodbye to…

Daniel Lelong in 2009 at Galerie Lelong in Paris (all images courtesy Galerie Lelong) Daniel Lelong, co-founder of Galerie Lelong in Paris and New York, died on Wednesday, June 4, at the age of 92. The news of his death was confirmed by the gallery. Remembered for his “positive spirit, sociable demeanor, and enthusiasm for…

William Blake, “The Whore of Babylon” (1809) (all photos Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic) PARIS — Amid collective failures to stop genocide and fascism in 2025, the Book of Revelation’s scenes of vivid combat between good and evil hit home. How satisfying to behold Saint Michael impaling a dragon in a Rhineland manuscript, for instance. At the Bibliothèque…

Weeks after the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that a woman can only be defined on the basis of biological sex, one artist has taken a stand against a transphobic billboard with the power of a really large Dachshund named Saveloy. Working under the name “youralrightyouare” — abbreviated as Yaya — the street artist added…

PASADENA — One fascinating thing about parenting is seeing how your children combine your mannerisms with their exposure to the larger community in their own developing personalities. My five-year-old daughter loves mimicking the dance choreography of Blackpink and is growing up in a time when K-pop is a global sensation. My preteen daughter loves to…

Because apparently a gold-framed mugshot, chorus of New York Post covers, and raised-fist propagandist painting weren’t enough, another portrait of President Donald Trump has entered the West Wing. The White House revealed the new addition yesterday, June 2, in an X video scored to music strangely reminiscent of the Austin Powers theme song. It has…

As a child, Alan Michelson often rode the T past sculptor Cyrus Edward Dallin’s “Appeal to the Great Spirit” (1908) outside the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). He was riveted by the statue’s grand horse and the powerful yet melancholy figure wearing a striking Plains Indian war bonnet. It was only in his 20s…

The exhibitions this week show us how we shape ourselves in history’s image, and the other way around. Lotus L. Kang’s assemblages at 52 Walker draw from diasporic memory, yet her draped film sculptures form an ongoing document of the exhibition’s idiosyncrasies of light and movement. Meanwhile, Rashid Johnson’s survey at the Guggenheim Museum draws…

Kick off Pride month with clues on Marsha P. Johnson’s biographer, Greek amphora nymphs, Victorian lesbian photography, a painter who was also Frida Kahlo’s rumored lover, an iconic Eero Sarinen structure, and more. Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere….

CHICAGO — Tony Tasset is the master of making things that are so bad they’re good.  Over the course of the artist’s long career, this has included a 30-foot-tall replica of his own eyeball, a cross assembled from Diet Coke cans, bronze magnolia trees forever in bloom, dirty snowmen that never melt, abstract expressionist canvases…

“He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers how to see. And once you’ve had that experience, you see differently.” That’s writer James Baldwin reflecting in an 1984 interview on his late mentor Beauford Delaney, the queer Black painter who introduced the young writer to…

Famed anonymous street artist Banksy has broken his six-month silence this morning, claiming credit via an Instagram post for a new black and white mural on a textured wall at yet another undisclosed location. In his signature fashion of responding to the existing environment, Banksy stenciled the silhouette of a lighthouse against a cream-colored wall,…

Once, when I was in my 20s and too much feeling the weight of being a Black man in the United States — someone onto whom most people I encountered would project their assumptions — I had the idea to create a t-shirt that would say, “Your space for projection here.” I feel this phrase…

PHILADELPHIA — In a bucolic corner of the Schuylkill River in southwest Philadelphia sits the oldest continuously operating botanical garden in North America. Bartram’s Garden, named after its founder, botanist John Bartram (1699–1777), is the site of many continental firsts, including being home to the oldest ginkgo tree in North America. But its history, as part…

Kim Sajet attends the American Portrait Gala at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery on November 17, 2019, in Washington, DC. (photo by Shannon Finney/Getty Images) President Donald Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social that he has terminated Kim Sajet from her role as director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington,…

This week, Harvard University agreed to relinquish 15 daguerreotypes thought to be among the earliest photographs of enslaved people in the United States as part of a landmark settlement with Tamara Lanier, who sued the school in 2019. Lanier had confirmed her genealogical ties to Papa Renty, whom she grew up hearing stories about from…

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Pigeons are disappearing from Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn, and one artist says she knows why.  New York fixture Tina Piña Trachtenburg — better known as “Mother Pigeon” for her signature feathered gowns — paced back and forth in front of a Bushwick pet store on Saturday, May 24, with a sullen expression. She carried…

Brazilian photojournalist and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado died at the age of 81 in Paris on Friday, May 23, as confirmed by his and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado’s reforestation nonprofit Instituto Terra. Having traveled to over 120 countries, Salgado was perhaps best known for his striking black and white photos documenting humanity’s profound inequalities, Indigenous…