Category: Arts Entertainments

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 […]

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) […]

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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 […]

Pigeons are disappearing from Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn, and one artist says she knows why.  New York fixture Tina Piña Trachtenburg — better known […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

A bronze statue at Pompeii’s Temple of Apollo, with Mount Vesuvius visible in the background (photo by Graham O’Keeffe via Flickr) In February of 2021, […]

ST. LOUIS — American car culture has long seemed synonymous with a particular make of men: showy, and yet unsure that they have something to show, […]

I first saw Xingzi Gu’s vaporous paintings of adolescents on the brink of adulthood at the artist’s MFA show at New York University. The child […]

Pope Leo XIV invoked Vincent van Gogh’s “Sower at Sunset” (1888) in his first general audience on Wednesday, May 21, using the painting to illustrate […]

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O‘AHU and HAWAI‘I ISLAND, Hawai‘i — Since mid-February, Honolulu’s city hall has hosted Meleanna Aluli Meyer’s “‘Umeke Lā‘au: Culture Medicine.” The sculpture, which enlarges the […]

There’s a tendency when it comes to MFA shows to apply a different set of standards — it’s good “for student work”; it’s a showcase for […]

Art Basel announced this week that it will host a new fair in the Qatari capital city of Doha, partnering with the state-operated Qatar Sports […]

Several dozen New York City arts and culture advocates — including unionized museum workers, public school educators, community nonprofit leaders, visual artists, theater performers, and […]

Over 1,000 faculty members at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan are officially unionized as of Thursday, May 22, after a two-thirds majority […]

LOS ANGELES — The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, co-founded by Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, has laid off 14% […]

This morning, May 21, a chorus of boos directed at Columbia University’s Acting President Claire Shipman resonated through the crowd of thousands at the school’s […]

The artists we’re highlighting this week have diverse practices, ranging from the earthy, unglazed ceramics of Stanley Rosen to the complex, multicolored tapestries of Kenny […]

In a world in which history and technology conspire to deliver a ceaseless stream of the most incomprehensible imagery this species has ever seen, Kenny […]

Archaeologists in Australia have identified a new Aboriginal rock art style in the country’s western territory that dates back to the mid-to-late Holocene age, around […]

“No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance,” a piece by artists Noel Maghathe, Fadl Fakhouri, and Fargo Tbakhi about Palestinian mourning, was scheduled […]

Michelle Cawthorn, a work from the Anni’s Birds series (2025) (all images courtesy the artists) BETHANY, Connecticut — Shortly after I met Peter Sharp and […]

HUNDERMAN, India — When I first arrived in Hunderman, a village near Kargil in India-controlled Kashmir, in March, I was struck by its stillness. The […]

Amy Werntz, “Carlyla” (2024), oil on panel (all images courtesy The Bennett Prize unless otherwise noted) Painter Amy Werntz of Dallas, Texas, has been named […]

It is a photograph etched into the visual canon of the first “television war”: a group of children flee a napalm attack near the town […]

A slew of politicians, government officials, and public figures rubbed shoulders at the British Museum in London earlier this week for a private ceremony to […]

LOS ANGELES — Books offer the contradictions of intimacy and communal experience. They represent the specific characteristics of the people and places that created them, […]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s criticized plan to “beautify” parts of Chinatown is moving forward as the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) begins to […]

Art critic Aruna D’Souza renounced her degrees from New York University today, Thursday, May 15, after the institution condemned a graduating student’s pro-Palestine commencement speech […]

British sculptor Thomas J. Price’s 12-foot-tall bronze statue “Grounded in the Stars” (2023), which monumentalizes a casually dressed Black woman with her hands on her […]

Outside 101 Spring Street in Soho, pedestrians noisily stream by. But inside this five-story historic space is a different world where the lingering aura of […]

Thomas J Price’s “Grounded in the Stars” (2023) in New York City’s Times Square (photo Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic) Black portraiture is on a timer. Every few […]

Stephanie Mercedes was preparing for her next exhibition when she received a quote last month from her Maryland steel supplier. The price of sheet metal […]

This week I’m reminded of the breadth of world cultures and the long shadow of human history, with art exhibitions that span the local and […]

When the pioneering artist-run feminist nonprofit A.I.R. Gallery launched a residency fellowship for emerging artists in the early 1990s, the first cohort consisted solely of […]

With more than a dozen fairs occurring simultaneously this week and next, New York’s spring art season can be dizzying. But across the Brooklyn Bridge, […]

Book cover of Ginseng Roots: A Memoir (2025), written and illustrated by Craig Thompson (all images courtesy Pantheon Graphic Library, an imprint of Penguin Random […]

Tuning out the din of fad-hunting throughout Frieze Week, a New York exhibition re-awakens a late feminist sculptor’s embodiments of human migration — both primordial […]

“I was friends with a porn star when I moved back to Los Angeles, and we spent a very depressing Christmas together,” Massoud Hayoun, an […]

The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) fair’s reputation for being at the top of the luxury spectrum lent it the air of a frenzied spring […]

My first stop at the Independent Art Fair was the rooftop bar: I wanted to catch my breath, enjoy the view, eavesdrop a little. I […]

“Oh, I looove her!” I hear a woman in a striped suit gush about Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens, whose large glass piece “Pinky Sunset […]

Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images by Jérémie Koering is a dense, well-researched book on what seems, at first glance, a hermetic subject matter. It charts […]

Meanwhile, at the Vatican (via Bluesky, all screenshots Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) As Hyperallergic’s resident adult Catholic convert, I am obliged to bring you my insight on […]

LOS ANGELES — When I was in graduate school for an MFA in writing, a professor told me something harrowing. “Most people here aren’t artists,” […]

I’ve covered the Met Gala from a meme standpoint in years past, and I intended on doing so this year as well — except … […]

SANTA ANA, California — Rachel Hakimian Emenaker paints contemporary life in Los Angeles and abroad, but her canvases mostly conjure ghosts. The Armenian-American artist’s solo […]

There’s so much to stimulate the eye and mind in museums and galleries this week that it’s a joy to behold. I spent way too […]

MONTCLAIR, New Jersey — A famous line from Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel Things Fall Apart is, “If you don’t like my story, write your own.” […]

Millions of tourists visit the ancient site of Pompeii each year to explore enchanting frescoes, opulent villas, and a seemingly frozen snapshot of a prosperous […]

Parsons Festival is an annual event series that showcases the creative and intellectual achievements of Parsons School of Design’s graduating students — a diverse and […]

Mayday! Mayday! From coast to coast, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded streets across the United States to commemorate May Day, also known as International […]

Dara Birnbaum, a pioneer of the feminist and video art movements who probed, mimicked, and remixed mass media, died today, May 2, at age 78. […]

A federal judge temporarily halted the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) on Thursday, May 1, after a […]

This month’s picks are about art’s ability to tell stories, and how those stories can reveal larger collective narratives. At Nazarian / Curcio, Widline Cadet […]

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — I first saw Lori Larusso’s paintings in 2004, when she was a graduate student in the MFA program at the Maryland Institute […]

The Siren is back! We have dedicated issue #2 to a satirical reflection on the first 100 days of MAGA: malicious mass firings, big-headed Broligarchs, […]

HANOVER, New Hampshire — A young Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) woman, Amedée Niamh Kauakohemālamalama Conley-Kapoi, gazes at her audience with calm resolution. Holding a poised […]

A 1,800-year-old, life-sized Greco-Roman statue looted nearly six decades ago from present-day Turkey has gone on its final display at the Cleveland Museum of Art […]

LOS ANGELES — It is not often that a museum exhibition feels like an animated diorama of a life — transporting viewers outside of themselves and […]

From jobs to clothing to colors, and more, there’s a lot of variety in our list this week. While our critics are enjoying historical shows […]

A child damaged a prized Mark Rothko painting last Friday, April 25, while it was on display in an exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van […]

What is color? The answer to that question is often that it’s subjective. But such vagueness can somehow still leave intact pale, male, and stale […]

LOS ANGELES — “Speak boldly!” says musician and composer Julius Eastman in the 1981 prelude to his musical composition, “The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc.” In […]

Painter and printmaker Tony Bechara, whose passionate support for artists helped mold New York City’s cultural landscape, died at his home on Wednesday, April 23, […]

I only just learned about this, but International Crab Day is tomorrow, April 26, so there’s no better time to put some respect on the […]

CHICAGO — Walking through an art fair can feel like swimming in the middle of Lake Michigan — there’s a fine line between floating through […]

What struck me first about this year’s Photography Show, running through April 27 at the Park Avenue Armory, was the near-total absence of traditional photojournalism. […]

After slashing critical grant programs for cultural institutions and placing the majority of its staff on leave, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is […]

America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums and organizations that have made […]

Celestial motifs and cosmological geometries strewn across a prismatic landscape comprise “Abstract Futures” (2025), the newest public artwork to grace the walls of the New […]

Dedicated to exhibiting, analyzing, and celebrating photography and lens-based media, CONTACT Photography Festival activates Toronto with citywide lens-based art initiatives every May. For the 29th […]

In 1971, a seven-year-old Sandra Fabara moved with her family from a city nestled in an Ecuadorian rainforest to the dense brick landscape of Brooklyn. […]

Climate activists took to the iconic “Charging Bull” sculpture in Manhattan’s Financial District on Earth Day today, April 22, to call out Wall Street’s “bullshit” […]

On February 26, the Washington Post reported that the Organization of American States (OAS) had canceled two major exhibitions at the Art Museum of the […]

The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) presents the 11th edition of NADA New York, the non-profit organization’s signature art fair. Open from May 7 to […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Time folds unto itself and reflects historical and contemporary moments that have shaped society in Isaac Julien’s I Dream a World, the […]

On Friday, April 18, Pratt Manhattan Gallery will open two new photography exhibitions: Black | Box by Dona Ann McAdams, which combines black and white […]

Suellen Rocca was one of the original six artists who comprised the Hairy Who. The Chicago artist group exhibited three times in the city between […]

The early-blooming daffodils may bow their trumpets in defeat amid the frosty trickery following Fool’s Spring, but no amount of rain and dreary weather can […]

‣ For Studio International, writer and curator Yasmeen Siddiqui excavates the layered political dimensions of the work of artist Lee Bul, whose headless sculptures are […]

America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums and organizations that have made […]

A portrait of Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both of his arms in an Israeli attack in Gaza, won the World Press Photo of the Year […]

After a heated bidding battle that went on for a record-breaking 95 minutes, a 700-year-old handscroll fetched over $32 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong last […]

Chants of “Guggenheim’s cheap!” “New York is a union town!” and “Up with the union, down with the layoffs!” reverberated down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s […]

America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums and organizations that have made […]

As a small-scale painter, I’ve been interested in meticulous manicures since 2005, when my mom presented me with the holy text — Klutz’s Nail Art […]

In Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Lord Henry, upon meeting the novel’s namesake character, exclaims, “You are too charming to go […]

If art both reflects and critique the world around us, there’s more than enough to say at the moment — and plenty of art that […]

The Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art at Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D), in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) […]

In 1988, photojournalist and photo editor Aline Manoukian captured an image of a Palestinian militiaman holding a white kitten in Lebanon’s Burj Al Barajneh refugee […]

The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) holds what is arguably the most important collection of early graffiti art and ephemera, amassed by […]

Left to right: Kimberli Gant (photo Andar Sawyer), Candice Hopkins (photo Johnny Fogg), Caroline Ellen Liou (photo Emanuel Hahn), Hrag Vartanian (photo Kevin J. Miyazaki) […]

Staff members at the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Ohio are unionizing after 86% of workers voted in favor on Wednesday, April 9. The […]

A video posted by the White House on April 11, 2025 appears to show a painting of Trump hanging in place of Obama’s portrait. (screenshot […]

On April 26 and 27, the Other Islands Book Fair returns to Pratt’s Brooklyn campus, bringing together over 40 independent publishers in a two-day event […]

‣ Identifying the color of your aura is trending, thanks to an ill-conceived TikTok filter. But for Believer, photographer Adalena Kavanagh visits a shop in […]

LONDON — “The body as a battleground — that applies to everyone,” writes Galli. This statement, quoted in the exhibition text for the solo exhibition So, […]

Art critic, educator, and photographer Max Kozloff died at the age of 91 on Sunday, April 6. He passed away at his home in New […]

America’s Cultural Treasures: This article is part of a series sponsored by the Ford Foundation highlighting the work of museums and organizations that have made […]

An international student enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence has had their visa terminated, as confirmed in a public letter […]

Devan Shimoyama: Rituals is on view now at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas, through June 14. Shimoyama, a contemporary American artist, uses […]

Is it hot in here, or is it just these protest signs? From New York City to Washington, DC, from Los Angeles to Boston, hundreds […]

It is not until the acknowledgments at the back of Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum, with […]

Mary Cassatt, “Family Group Reading” (1898) at the Legion of Honor’s Mary Cassatt at Work, January 2025 (photo Lakshmi Rivera Amin/Hyperallergic) It feels both eerie […]

We’re all partial to a cool rock. I’ve certainly amassed a collection of some neat stones from driveways and beaches in my 27 years. But […]

Following the seizure of Sally Mann’s photographs from an art exhibition in Texas in January, the state’s museums could face new penalties if the attorney […]

More than 1,800 academics, including art historians and art professors, have committed to boycotting Columbia University in a March 26 open letter denouncing the school’s […]

Ahead of next week’s grant application deadline for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), organizations are in limbo following a new court ruling that […]

Applications for the 2026 Vilcek Foundation Prizes for Creative Promise in Fashion & Culture and Fashion & Design are now open to immigrants under the […]

A paid undergraduate internship to train the next generation of museum professionals. A program to educate collections care professionals on climate resilience. Archaeological research at […]

This week, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) opens New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, a major exhibition presenting the work of four […]

Karachi-based artist Amin Gulgee’s three-decade-long oeuvre spans metal sculptures, bold performance art, and collaborative curation. A well-structured new volume on his work, titled Amin Gulgee: […]

“You should do it,” said a friend, and on that speculative basis I showed up on West 8th Street, sculpting apron in hand, butterflies in […]

The exhibitions below ask viewers to engage their senses and spend time with art that’s slower to reveal itself. That may means noticing details you’d […]

In an interview on the Joe Rogan podcast, Met Gala co-chair Anna Wintour announced “Fasc-isms” as the theme for this year’s highly anticipated event. “The […]

Deborah-Joyce Holman’s “Close-Up” (2024), currently on view at the Swiss Institute, aestheticizes a Black woman’s mundane domestic activities in a moving image work that taps […]

This month, we recommend shows by several artists who provide singular, visionary, and radical ways of viewing the world — and imagining new ones. Madam […]

Deborah R. Grayson never expected to find her way back to printmaking. “I was actually a painter until the pandemic. Then I couldn’t get into […]

Curated by Dejá Belardo, this two-part exhibition at Pratt Fine Arts’ new MFA facilities at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard features the work […]

Celia Paul is “a person in love with the romance of that which can never be,” or so says critic Hilton Als in a new […]

A portrait of Donald Trump that has hung in the Colorado Capitol Rotunda since 2019 was removed by state legislators after the president lambasted the […]

Monash University in Melbourne has “indefinitely postponed” an upcoming exhibition featuring the work of Lebanese-born artist Khaled Sabsabi one month after Australia rescinded his 2026 […]

Minutes before the United States launched a deadly missile campaign in Yemen that reportedly killed 53 people and wounded 89, including multiple children, on March […]

In 2021, when the Frick Collection temporarily took over the Brutalist Breuer building that was once home to the Whitney Museum of American Art and […]

Lawyers representing Venezuelan migrants who are being held in immigration custody, or who have already been deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador for alleged […]

As March comes to a close, New York City ushers in Print Week with the 34th edition of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fair at […]

Catherine Murphy is one of a handful of artists who changed observational painting between the 1960s and ’80s, when painting’s dominance was being contested. Murphy, […]

Artist Nona Faustine, whose self-portraits memorialized under-recognized narratives and fearlessly confronted violent histories, died on Thursday morning, March 20, at the age of 48 in […]

A call that could easily have gone unnoticed for the Statue of Liberty to be repatriated to France has generated a media swarm over the […]

As of today, my Roth Contributory IRA balance stands at $3,372.30. Being that I’m 23, that number is not an astonishingly low figure, but it […]

TOKYO — At the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, a standing-room-only crowd watches the unfolding of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani’s “TIME TIME” (2024). The shadow […]

After ordering the effective dismantlement of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) last week, President Donald Trump has sworn in a new director […]

MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — Luxury, legacy, and a touch of subversion — the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) returned to the MECC convention center in […]

Gert and Uwe Tobia, “Untitled” (2012-13), lithograph with hand-coloring (© 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, courtesy The New York […]

Los Angeles has cemented its status as a global art capital over the past two decades, with the arrival of several new museums, not to […]

Fred Eversley, who fused art and science to create captivating parabolic sculptures, died on March 14 at the age of 83. A spokesperson for David […]

In a city commission meeting this morning, March 19, following a heated public comment session, Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner withdrew his controversial proposal to […]

In a new interview with Hyperallergic, Erik af Klint, board chair of the Hilma af Klint Foundation and the artist’s great-grandnephew, doubled down on his […]

The expansive front gallery of the Drawing Center may get the most attention, but the smaller back space and the lower-level one have hosted many […]

This is a week of big statements by artists and expanded possibilities by curators and gallerists, past and present. If you haven’t already made the […]

I have never taken an art history course, unless you count two COVID-impacted Zoom classes. Particularly given the weight of everything I don’t know, engaging […]

Nick Cave has long been a flag-bearer of maximalism even as the art world tended toward minimalism. His Soundsuit sculptures, for which he’s best known, […]

LOS ANGELES — “Witness” is a bronze cast of the bottom half of Kelly Akashi’s face. The surface of the sculpture (from 2024–25) has an […]

This month, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) received the largest corporate donation it’s ever gotten for a single exhibition. SFMOMA announced on March […]

The trail of staff cuts trickling throughout cultural institutions in the United States appears to continue across the pond, as the Tate museums in the […]

MIAMI — A small arthouse cinema on Miami Beach faces the possible cancellation of its lease and the loss of $80,000 in grant money promised […]

Raymond Pettibon with David Larsen, “Untitled (Joan had been…)” (mid-1990s), linocut (all images courtesy Getty Research Institute) LOS ANGELES — The Getty announced this week […]

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chair Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American and second woman to hold the agency’s highest-ranking post, has stepped […]

San Francisco art museums may lay off staff and reduce operating hours to meet the city’s budget reduction proposal as workers elsewhere fear a wave […]

The Grand Penn Community Alliance (GPCA) presented its proposal for renovating Penn Station at the New York Historical on Tuesday, March 11, outlining a return […]

Artists, cultural workers, and historians are mobilizing in protest of the targeted arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian refugee raised in Syria who served as […]

Widespread cuts to the federal workforce under President Trump may leave the General Services Administration’s (GSA) massive collection of public artwork in a state of […]

After weeks of rallies against expected layoffs at the Brooklyn Museum and even a special oversight hearing at City Hall, District Council 37, one of […]

An ongoing exhibition at the College of William and Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, brings seven of Michelangelo’s few surviving sketches to […]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — At the center of Daisy Patton’s Before These Witnesses hangs a double swing festooned with fabric flowers. Fashioned from a […]

I have this vague, flickering memory of neon orange billowing impossibly through threadbare trees like the penumbric trails of large, unseasonal fireflies. I would’ve been […]

Deborah Kass, left to right, “Making Men 4” (1992) and “Puff Piece” (1992) Deborah Kass created the Art History Paintings out of frustration at not […]

We’re hosting a virtual town hall meeting for Hyperallergic Members on March 19 at 6pm (EDT).  We loved connecting with so many of you at […]

Largely derided as the pinnacle of feminine vanity and frivolity, the imported porcelain fever of early 18th-century Europe laid the framework for Chinoiserie, a Western […]

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, has come under scrutiny after the institution laid off 13 employees and reorganized staff to […]

‣ Handwriting is one of those topics that will never cease to fascinate me, and poet Anne Carson’s new essay for the Los Angeles Review of […]

Absurd edits of Vice President JD Vance have ballooned across social media in the week following the disastrous televised meeting between him, President Trump, and […]

For Backstreet Community Arts, a nonprofit in Newnan, Georgia, that provides free art workshops and studio access for individuals grappling with trauma, grief, and other […]

For over three decades, textile artist Myrlande Constant has depicted scenes from Haitian history, religion, and daily life through the large-scale, labor-intensive beaded embroidery of […]

Anne Imhof’s three-hour performance at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan is overwhelmingly infantile, comically apolitical, excessively pessimistic about the future, and tragically hollow beneath […]

After the recent frenzy of Art Week here in Los Angeles, this month’s selections focus on community and collaboration, tracing historical and personal networks of […]

In an over two-minute speech on the stage of Los Angeles’s Dolby Theater on Sunday night, March 2, Palestinian journalist, lawyer, and activist Basel Adra […]

A gilded brass reliquary bust of a martyred female saint (Southern Germany or Switzerland, c. 1500), brass with gilding and polychrome, at Luhring Augustine gallery […]

As I made my way up the winding path to DeKalb Gallery, a squat aquarium of a building on the Pratt Institute quad in Brooklyn, […]

Kathryn Freeman, “Living with Goats” (2023), oil on linen (courtesy Carrie Haddad Gallery) Although we celebrate his birthday in April, March always reminds me of […]

After being closed to the public for about a year, Manhattan’s New Museum will reopen this fall with more than double the gallery space and […]

During my first visit to the Outsider Art Fair in Manhattan yesterday, February 27, the overall experience was exactly what I’d expected: a few stand-out […]

In a special oversight hearing at New York City Hall this morning, February 28, Brooklyn Museum workers, union representatives, and City Council members called on […]

The Guggenheim Museum in New York will lay off 20 employees, around 7% of its staff, the institution announced today, February 28, citing post-pandemic financial […]

In the three years since Russia invaded Ukraine, near-daily heavy drone strikes and missile bombardments have killed thousands of civilians and displaced many more. In […]

Artist Andil Gosine would be setting up his exhibition Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine in Washington, DC this week if the Art Museum of the […]

Treasures of the Medieval World at Luhring Augustine represents what galleries can offer that many museums do not: an up-close and personal experience with museum-worthy […]

The pairing of paintings by Amanda Church and Jenny Hankwitz in Intersection at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects was a stroke of genius. Opening a […]

Philip Guston, an Ashkenazi Jew, and Trenton Doyle Hancock, a Black artist with a strict Southern Christian upbringing, came from vastly different backgrounds. But a […]

Over 200 people, including current and former Brooklyn Museum workers and supporters, rallied outside the institution during a fundraising event tonight, February 25, to protest […]

The Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC, has terminated an exhibition of works by Afro-Latino, Caribbean, and African American artists after the Trump […]

It’s 31 degrees outside, but the wind makes it feel like 19. When I arrived at the New York Supreme Court Criminal Term at 100 […]

The fan kicked on with a loud drone. A giant red hand flopped forebodingly over the tape meant to protect artworks from viewers, before lunging […]

Strewn about a dark room are objects that recall the wreckage of a plane. As I investigated the scene of the catastrophe, I saw cloth bags […]

The projection of Luigi Mangione portrayed as a saint on a building at the intersection of Canal and Lafayette Streets in Lower Manhattan on Thursday […]

LOS ANGELES — As crowds descended on the Santa Monica Airport yesterday, February 20, for the opening of Frieze Los Angeles, casual bystanders might forget […]

Accused UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shooter Luigi Mangione appeared for a brief hearing at a Manhattan court today, February 21, for the first time since […]

Harry Gould Harvey IV, “Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread” (2025) at Post-Fair (all photos Sigourney Schultz/Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — Yesterday, I bypassed […]

At the end of its previous term, the Trump administration turned its attention toward the arts. A 2020 executive order entitled “Make Federal Buildings Beautiful […]

A Mexico City exhibition of paintings portraying sexualized and queer Christian priests and nuns has elicited fervent complaints from religious groups and right-wing figures who have […]

The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria per the country’s request, marking the single largest return to date of Benin antiquities […]

When wildfires swept through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena last month, the fate of the fairs participating in LA’s February Art Week was an open […]

A “black box” — variously a flight data recorder, theater, and camera — is essentially a repository for different modes of memory. Many are in […]

Hundreds of artists rebuked the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in an open letter this week after the agency imposed new requirements for grant […]

Sometimes we need to see the big picture to find meaning; other times it’s in the little things. And still other times, we can’t find […]

Valentine’s Day may be over, but love in art endures — including an iconic Klimt embrace. Solve this and other clues in the mini puzzle […]