A new sculpture of Trump caressing a blissful Epstein, echoing one of the most famous scenes in the movie “Titanic,” cropped up in front of the United States Capitol this morning.
Iraqi artist Ali Eyal remembers being nine years old, gazing out at the Baghdad skyline from a Ferris wheel in 2003, just days before the US invasion. In a must-read profile, Eyal, who is in this year’s Whitney Biennial, talks about the art he makes to process the war of his childhood.
Amid Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon, Joumana Asseily temporarily closed the doors of her Beirut gallery, Marfa’ Projects. Speaking with Hyperallergic, she described the attacks on her city as “incomprehensible.”
“Targeting Iranian cultural heritage is first and foremost bad because of the devastating effects it would have on Iranians. We in the rest of the world may feel a real loss, but that is secondary at best.” –Michael Press, archaeologist
Through his fantastical vignettes, the artist Petrit Halilaj suggests curiosity about others as a way to neutralize the forces that lead to difference-based violence.
The dialogue between art and science is a core element of Liz Nielsen’s practice. To record colored light, she works in pitch-black, making hundreds of exposures on film and processing the latent images through traditional color chemistry.
As Lunar New Year celebrations continue across the world, nobody embodies the holiday spirit quite like New Yorkers. Case in point: an Abrons Arts Center exhibition honors the queer, working-class imagery and art that make Chinatown special.
Los Angeles may be recovering from an art hangover after a dizzying fair week, but there are several excellent shows worth a closer look this month: Hayv Kahraman at Vielmetter, a two-gallery Wally Hendrick retrospective, and so much more.
Thaddeus Mosley, a self-taught artist who remained largely overlooked until the last decade of his life, when he became an internationally renowned sculptor, died on March 6 at the age of 99.
In the few days since art critics got their first peek at the Whitney Biennial, one descriptor seems to have bobbed to the surface: Weird. And why not? It’s the perfect word for our time.
The US Supreme Court declined to hear computer scientist Stephen Thaler’s appeal on his years-long legal battle to secure copyright protections for an AI-generated “artwork,” leaving the AI art crusader out in the cold once again.
Israeli and American airstrikes on Iran have caused significant damage to the Qajar-era Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the heart of Tehran.
We talked to Morgan Library curator John Marciari about what it’s like to put together a show on 400-year-old art, the surprisingly modern gallery system that Caravaggio frequented in Rome, and what an early painting can tell us about an Old Master.
As the Great Salt Lake’s ecological crisis worsens, Olafur Eliasson’s new site-specific installation in Salt Lake City renders audible what is increasingly at risk of vanishing.
“Application fees are the first place many artists encounter the field’s structural inequity — not through theory, but through a checkout screen.” –Damien Davis buff.ly/KDdZcfi
The son of legendary painters Robert Ryman and Merrill Wagner, Cordy Ryman has developed his own visual language, transforming aspects of his parents’ work and Minimalism into something recognizably his.
Iranian heritage sites, a Native artist’s anti-ICE beadwork, mapping Black-owned bookstores, the business behind America’s sauna frenzy, and more links from around the internet in this week’s Required Reading.
Back in 2021, @hrag.bsky.social interviewed curator Diya Vij for a special episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast. These days, she’s making headlines after Mamdani nominated her to be New York City’s new culture commissioner!
Listen to the episode here:
“I work as an attorney during the day and let loose at night in my studio.”
Artists reflect on their workspace in our series A View From the Easel. Submit your studio for the chance to be featured!
The Museum at FIT’s new exhibition explores the entangled and shifting relationship between fine art and fashion, tracing parallel aesthetics from 18th-century Rococo to postmodernism.
10 LA shows to see this month, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...
This year’s Whitney Biennial is themeless, but spotlights ideas of “relationality,” including family, technology, and mythology. Here are our first impressions.
Rather than a filled-to-the-brim retrospective, a smaller survey at the Guggenhim would have allowed for something more meaningful than just showing what artist Carol Bove has been doing for the past decades.
A “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” has appeared in Washington DC’s Farragut Square. Stickers resembling the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are printed with the convicted sex offender’s likeness below the names and titles of figures mentioned in the Epstein files.
We rounded up this season’s must-see art shows that are a simple train ride (or drive) from New York City: Rina Banerjee at the Yale Center for British Art, Agnes Martin at Dia Beacon, Piero Manzoni at Magazzino, and so much more.
In Memoriam honors those we recently lost in the art world. This week, we remember the avant-garde video artist Ulysses Jenkins, ceramic artist Jasmine Little, and San Francisco gallerist Rena Bransten, among other greats.
