Category: Arts Entertainments

“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 —…

In the international queer community, Arewà Basit is known as a dancing, singing don-diva who makes music, performs in drag, and co-leads the Black queer production organization Legacy. These days, she’s also…

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…

LONDON — Demonstrating “influence” between artists is a thorny enterprise. Side-by-side comparisons can often reveal how one individual or movement’s technical practice or iconography was taken up and/or further developed by another, furthering…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

Raheleh Filsoofi is an itinerant artist, feminist curator, and community advocate. Using clay and sound as her primary expressive mediums, her work revolves around themes of movement, immigration, and social activism. Her…

“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…

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick Gallery invite applications to its premier fellowship program, the oldest and largest in American art. Scholars from any discipline whose research engages the art,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

SANTA FE — In 1998, science fiction writer Ted Chiang published “Story of Your Life,” in which aliens come to Earth in “looking glasses,” mirrored spaceships that act as communication devices. The…

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…

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…

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…

As the summer winds down and the season of art fairs and openings approaches, you might assume that the entire art world is on vacation right now. Don’t make the mistake of…

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….

At first glance, the two Super 8 films that comprise Ufuoma Essi’s exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) seem to compete for attention. “Bodies In Dissent” (2021) juxtaposes the artist’s…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…

The mural is a remnant of an interior atrium from a pre-Hispanic ceremonial temple. (all photos courtesy Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) Anthropomorphic forms, motifs of fishing nets and the Andes night…

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…

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, we find ourselves at a pivotal crossroads in the national conversation about identity, memory, and who gets to tell our story. This…

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….

Art on Paper, New York City’s celebrated fair dedicated to the creative potential of paper-based art, returns to Pier 36 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side for its eleventh edition during Armory Arts…

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)….

Top: Mural at Dupont Circle North Metro Station in Washington, DC, pays homage to the man who threw a subway at an federal agent (photo courtesy Ian Livinsgton); bottom: Stills from an…

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…

A US Border Patrol agent stands in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on August 14, 2025. (photo courtesy Little Tokyo Rapid Response Network via JANM) Dozens of…

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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…

“She, among all of us, was the uniquely gifted one — is the uniquely gifted one.” So avers none other than Philip Glass, minimalist composer extraordinaire. The “she” in question is Meredith…

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…

Howard Kakita survived the American atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. (all photos courtesy Howard Kakita) Editor’s Note: This article contains graphic descriptions of the effects of the atomic bomb….

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…

A federal judge in Illinois sided with Scottish artist Peter Doig last month in an outlandish decades-long legal dispute over a desert landscape the painter denies creating. On July 29, the court…

New York City is defined in many ways by its iconic infrastructure, from our parks to the soaring towers of the Brooklyn and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridges, and even the controversial roadways of Robert…

The wave of gallery closures that has roiled the art world in recent months continues this week with the back-to-back announcements of the shuttering of Kasmin and Clearing galleries. Manhattan’s Kasmin Gallery,…

A federal judge halted further construction on the notoriously dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center yesterday, August 7, in response to a lawsuit citing the prison’s risks to environmental diversity and Native American…

This month’s exhibitions bring a transformative twist to the everyday, imbuing mundane items with psychological, political, and personal depth. At Regen Projects, Kevin Beasley embeds clothing and other objects into luminous and…

A Bangkok exhibition exploring state violence and resistance, which included artists from Tibet and Hong Kong, was altered under pressure by officials at the Chinese Embassy in Thailand. In an email sent…

For more than three decades, the Art Dealers Association of America’s (ADAA) annual Art Show in New York City served as the biggest source of unrestricted revenue for the Henry Street Settlement,…

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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,…

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…

The seventh iteration of Swann Galleries’ LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History auction on Thursday, August 21, features an exciting selection of 20th and 21st-century fine art, photography, and ephemera from the…

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…

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…

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…

The graduate admissions team at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has prepared a variety of events to assist students as they apply to their graduate programs. Join these…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Frida Kahlo, “Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (Autorretrato con pelo cortado)” (1940), oil on canvas (Digital Image © 2025 MoMA, N.Y.; © 2025 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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 —…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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….

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…

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…

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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….

“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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Mention “spirituality” in relation to modern or contemporary art in a United States metropolis, and chances are you’ll get some eye rolls. Mestre Didi: Spiritual Form at El Museo del Barrio makes…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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,…

SAN FRANCISCO — There’s nothing nicer than going into a major museum show like Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art at the Legion of Honor filled with wariness around its (obvious?) premise…

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…

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….

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…

Chloë Bass likes to people watch, and our emotions are her medium. She’s part of a lineage of artists across fields who critically explore race and social performance, eschewing simplistic narratives —…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

LOS ANGELES – I remember when the smoke plume from the Palisades and Eaton fires left LA in January, its black veil drifting out to sea like a hand loosening its grip….

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…

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…

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…

The National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL) and the Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, DC, are on the chopping block as the Trump administration targets the Smithsonian Institution. President Trump’s Fiscal…

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…

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…

KELANTAN, MALAYSIA — A puppet with flowing hair and a sharp-toothed grin came soaring into view as background singers shrieked, cackled, and whooped. Illya Sumanto spread her arms wide, making the beautiful…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

LOS ANGELES — Police State, a 10-day durational performance by activist, artist, and Pussy Riot creator Nadya Tolokonnikova, transforms the cavernous warehouse of the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los…

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…

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…

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….

In Gordon Parks’s photograph “Radio Technicians’ Class, Daytona Beach, Florida” (1943), two rows of students gaze obediently at their professor, whose back is to the viewer. Headphones on and books open, the…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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),…

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…

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,…

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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…

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….

A group of protesters staged a demonstration in the lobby of the Whitney Museum of American Art last Friday evening, May 23, targeting board members “tied to genocide, militarism, and apartheid” and…

Some of our favorite shows this week are all about giving new life to old things and looking at our environments from a different perspective: creative reuse, recycling and repurposing objects, and…