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Music • Weekend
Selena Gomez Gets Into Her Groove
Gomez’s songs fit standard teenpop/R&B codes while excising the genre’s usual false cheer to achieve a cold minimalism.
Books • Weekend
Stéphane Mallarmé Created an Ideal Book Never Meant to Be Published
The French poet juxtaposed the details of printing and production in a book that he imagined as a theatrical production.
Art • Weekend
Titian, in the Harsh Light of Day
Titian was, as the great English poet Geoffrey Chaucer would put it, a ‘man’s man,’ accustomed to showing off his posturing pride.
Art • Weekend
A Soaring Visionary of Afrofuturism and Black Power
In Atlanta, the pride-affirming work of the African American self-taught artist Charles Williams comes into focus in a new, well-researched exhibition.
Art • Weekend
Gregory Amenoff Turns a Corner
In his new work, Amenoff transforms his imagery while retaining his powerhouse color.
Art • Weekend
Why Something as Humble as Drawing Still Matters
What anchors Chuck Webster’s work is drawing; he is not afraid to reveal himself through this age-old practice, using whatever means are at his disposal.
News
As NY Negotiates COVID-19 Rent Freeze, Small Galleries Threatened by Landlords
While a NY Senate bill proposes a 90-day rent suspension, small NYC galleries say their landlords have ignored requests for negotiation during their closures.
News
What the $2 Trillion Stimulus Means for the Arts, Struggling to Stay Afloat
While leading museum associations petitioned Congress for $4 billion to buoy nonprofit museums, today Trump signed the controversial stimulus bill, promising the NEA and NEH a respective $75 million.
Books
The Radical, Playful, and Primal Perspectives of Michael Snow
Edited by the late, great Anette Michelson and Kenneth White, the essays in Michael Snow refresh our notions of experimentation.
Features
Art Students Demand University Accountability and Reimbursements During Pandemic
Students at some of the most renowned art universities in the country, including the Rhode Island School of Design, Yale, and NYU Tisch, are sounding alarm bells about their schools’ handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic and Y.ES Contemporary Accepting Applications for 2020 Art Writers Grant
Writers interested in covering contemporary arts in and about El Salvador should apply by May 15, 2020.