A View From the Easel
Hyperallergicby Lakshmi Rivera Amin27d ago
Welcome to the 354th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.
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top 63%Pope.L Invites Us to Think Through the American Dream
Hyperallergicby Channelle Chevelle Russell27d ago
A headless man stares out with no eyes. An absurd study in portraiture both aesthetically and thematically coincident with Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man and rendered here in acrylic, oil...
Excavating Craft Histories Through Archives
Hyperallergicby Center for Craft27d ago
Craft Archive Fellowship Virtual Program: Archives in Action Wednesday, September 23 from 5 to 6:30pm (EST) Please join us for Archives in Action, a virtual panel discussion celebrating the...
Artists Reflect on 25 Years Since 9/11
Hyperallergicby Hyperallergic27d ago
I was four years old when the Twin Towers fell, and my memory is a mishmash of confusion: my grandmother picking me up early from Pre-K, a pillar of smoke out the rearview window, asking my father...
Artists Reflect on 9/11 and the Wounds of the “War on Terror”
Hyperallergicby Lakshmi Rivera Amin28d ago
Every year on September 11, New Yorkers pay tribute to the victims of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center — and to the wounds of the weeks and years after.
A Portrait of an Artist as a Dominatrix
Hyperallergicby Lisa Yin Zhang28d ago
Olivia Wilde plays Erika Tracy, a contemporary art superstar-slash-sociopath (is there a difference?)
Art Books and Scholarship from the National Gallery of Art
Hyperallergicby National Gallery of Art28d ago
From the printed page to digital storytelling, the National Gallery’s publications bring art to everyone.
Testicle Art Is So Back
Hyperallergicby Valentina Di Liscia28d ago
When country singer Kacey Musgraves appeared onstage atop a pair of sparkly testicles during her Middle of Nowhere Tour, we immediately conjured Alexandra Rubinstein’s gonad-shaped “disco balls,”...
Announcing the 2026 Rabkin Prize Winners
Hyperallergicby Rabkin Foundation28d ago
Marking a decade of support for arts writers, the Rabkin Foundation has named its 2026 recipients of the Rabkin Prize, awarding eight visual arts journalists $50,000 each in recognition of their...
Lonnie Bunch’s Resignation Is a Wake-Up Call
Hyperallergicby Ed Simon29d ago
In 2003, a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin successfully defended a dissertation based on meticulous research across French, Spanish, and English. Kevin D.
A Brief History of Testicle Art
Hyperallergicby Phillip Pyle29d ago
How does one write an art history of testicle-shaped disco balls? Does one begin with the most recent iteration of disco balls and trace their way back, through the raucous hollers and blacklit...
Women Painters Lead Brazil’s New Wave of Figuration
Hyperallergicby Ela Bittencourt29d ago
After years of institutional exhibitions of Brazilian painting often limited to early-modernist figuration and mid-century abstraction — and the work of Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti, Lygia...
Voices in Print: New Jersey Black Women Printmakers Shaping the American Narrative
Hyperallergicby Morven Museum & Garden29d ago
Curated by Judith K. Brodsky and Rhinold L. Ponder, Voices in Print is the inaugural exhibition to open in Morven’s Stockton Education Center.
Lonnie G. Bunch Has Had Enough
Hyperallergicby Hyperallergic29d ago
Lonnie G. Bunch III has had it. After months of incessant harassment and political prodding from the Trump White House, the Smithsonian Secretary announced that he's quitting his job with “very...
A New Batch of Art-World Novels
Hyperallergicby Lakshmi Rivera Amin8 Sept 2026
Sometimes, all it takes is the prospect of a new book to pull me out of a reading slump. Elizabeth Alexander’s forthcoming essay collection did the trick, as did Layli Long Soldier’s book of poetry...
An Art-Filled Fall in Upstate NY
Hyperallergicby Rhea Nayyar8 Sept 2026
I sipped the last dregs of summer collecting at the bottom of my (discreet) Tom Collins this holiday weekend, taking in the beloved sights of prancing dogs with frisbees and determined children...
For Sophie Lewis, Femininity Is Not the Enemy of Feminism
Hyperallergicby Eileen G’Sell8 Sept 2026
In challenging the opprobrious history of misogyny within visual art and broader culture, feminist critics can at times dismiss the delights of femininity itself.
How Korean Paper Became War Collateral
Hyperallergicby Robert Choe-Henderson8 Sept 2026
This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2025 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft.
Artist Lucien Smith, Fixture of NYC’s Downtown Scene, Dies at 37
Hyperallergicby Phillip Pyle8 Sept 2026
Artist Lucien Smith, an abstract painter whose work as a nonprofit founder and restaurateur channeled the community ethos of 1970s New York, has died at the age of 37.
Renoir Artworks Worth Millions Stolen in Five-Minute Heist in France
Hyperallergicby Rhea Nayyar8 Sept 2026
A pair of thieves made off with two paintings from the Renoir Museum in southern France during a break-in early this morning, September 8.