The Rough-and-Ready Brilliance of Barbara Hammer’s “Nitrate Kisses”
Hyperallergicby Alexis Clements·10d ago
The late feminist director Barbara Hammer's films are not always easy to digest, with their syncopated cuts, layered edits, and general refusal of linear narratives.
Kenzi Shiokava Did It for the Love of It
Hyperallergicby Lori Waxman·10d ago
CHICAGO — If you’ve ever been enraptured by a piece of driftwood, awed by its organic intricacy, its improbable whorls, its magical provenance, then the Kenzi Shiokava exhibition at the Museum of...
Ruby City Presents "Generative Disruption: Feminist Art from the Collection"
Hyperallergicby Ruby City·10d ago
Generative Disruption: Feminist Art from the Collection, opening September 26 at Ruby City, recognizes the contributions of women artists to contemporary art and explores how feminist artistic...
Announcing the 2026 Center for Craft Archive Fellows
Hyperallergicby Center for Craft·10d ago
The Center for Craft is proud to announce the 2026 Craft Archive Fellows. This fellowship advances archival research on underrepresented and non-dominant craft histories in the United States...
Arthur Jafa’s Elegy to America
Hyperallergicby Hyperallergic·10d ago
Arthur Jafa's recently opened survey at the New Museum is the largest exhibition of his work to date.
Thanks, I’m Just Looking
Hyperallergicby Hakim Bishara·12d ago
The following exchange between a curator and me takes place during the press preview for the Armory Show.
No One Is Reading, Except at the New York Art Book Fair
Hyperallergicby Lakshmi Rivera Amin·13d ago
If Reading Rainbow’s opening sequence — the Y2K-techno-optimistic Chaka Khan version, to be exact — were a real place, it would be the outdoor zine tent at the New York Art Book Fair.
Here’s What (Dealers Said) Sold at the Armory Show
Hyperallergicby Aaron Short·13d ago
This week, the world outside the Armory Show has been embroiled in turmoil. Oil and food prices are soaring while mortgage rates topped 7%, which could compel the Federal Reserve to hike interest...
Arthur Jafa, King of Pop
Hyperallergicby Stephanie Wambugu·13d ago
Arthur Jafa’s survey I Am Tony at the New Museum in New York is full of the artist’s characteristic gallows humor that ironizes even the most morbid images and brings to the surface the solemnity...
A View From the Easel
Hyperallergicby Lakshmi Rivera Amin·13d ago
Welcome to the 356th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Lara Saget hauls rocks into her studio and brings glass to life.
Should You Sit Out the Armory Show?
Hyperallergicby Hyperallergic·13d ago
If you survived day one of the New York fair flurry, you have my respect — Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara has read his share of booth press releases over the past 24 hours, too, and offers a...
Independent 20th Century, the Mise en Abyme of Art Fairs
Hyperallergicby Valentina Di Liscia·13d ago
Independent 20th Century is an art fair within an auction house inside a building that used to be a museum, a monstrous mise en abyme that perfectly encapsulates the art world today.
The Polish Pavilion Dissolves You in the Politics of Sound
Hyperallergicby Amanda Cachia·14d ago
VENICE — I have spent much of my career as a crip curator and art historian thinking about how access is often treated as an afterthought — the ramp added late, the caption burned in at the last...
Photographer Tyler Mitchell Wins Crystal Bridges's $250K Prize
Hyperallergicby Lisa Yin Zhang·14d ago
Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.
What Happens After Repatriation?
Hyperallergicby Eurídice Arratia·14d ago
VENICE — In November 2018, scholars and historians Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy released The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics, a landmark report that...
Ari Emanuel Doesn't Want to Hear the G-Word
Hyperallergicby Hyperallergic·14d ago
Frieze owner and Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel is not convinced that Israel's violence against Palestinians meets the definition of genocide.
The Met to Present First Major Felix Gonzalez-Torres Show in NYC in Decades
Hyperallergicby Phillip Pyle·15d ago
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the first major exhibition on Felix Gonzalez-Torres in New York in over 30 years.
Thomas Hart Benton's Sanitized American Idyll
Hyperallergicby Bryan Martin·15d ago
Thomas Hart Benton: A Picture of America in its Entirety provides an opportunity to consider the Regionalist’s complex legacy.
Gather 'Round, Willie Birch Is Speaking
Hyperallergicby Nereya Otieno·15d ago
LOS ANGELES — Imagine sitting next to your favorite uncle. Or rather, you’re a child perched on his lap, enraptured by the tales he tells of things he’s seen and places he’s been.
How Tarot Survived for 500 Years
Hyperallergicby Hyperallergic·15d ago
It’s the second day of fall here in the northern hemisphere, and magic is already in the air. Critic AX Mina paid a visit to one of the most fitting places for this season of spells and...
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