Art Review
The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me
The artist’s current series marks a shift in her practice, evoking the life span of a sunflower — from blooming to dying, from sharply defined forms to rivulets of dissolution.
Feature
A Living Memorial to Palestinian Activist Alex Odeh Takes Flight
"The Stolen Dove" is a participatory project that turns a decades-old monument into an artwork to keep the scholar and civil rights leader’s memory alive.
Art Review
Trevor Winkfield’s Cheerfully Sinister Worlds
His rejection of certainty is an urgent reminder that imagination should not be neglected in the pursuit of art.
News
Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Fatally Stabbing NYC Vogue Dancer
Dmitriy Popov killed the Black gay dancer O'Shae Sibley at a Brooklyn gas station in 2023 in a homophobic hate crime.
Opinion
Zendaya’s Earrings Are Part of a Much Bigger Problem
The 3,000-year-old Iranian discs turned red-carpet jewelry are emblematic of a market that has spent decades quietly dismantling ancient objects for parts.
Community
A View From the Easel
“One of my favorite museums is the street itself.”
Art Movements
Pat Oleszko Wins $100K Whitney Biennial Prize
The artist known for her irreverent inflatables gets the Bucksbaum Award; plus, there’s a new grant for artists living with cancer, Murmurs Gallery closes, and more news.
News
Artist’s Planned Monument to Charlie Kirk Gets Trolled Online
“God gave me permission,” Sergio Furnari, the NYC sculptor behind the design, told Hyperallergic about his unsanctioned and widely decried work.
News
Manhattan DA’s Office Returns Three Antiquities to Mexico
The office’s sixth repatriation to the nation included a Nayarit sculpture seized from The Met and an Aztec stone previously possessed by a convicted antiquities trafficker.
Community
Required Reading
This week: Chitra Ganesh’s futuristic myths, André Breton and optimism, the mermaids of Florida, a Palestinian digital archive, Argentina and racism, and more.
News
Trump Shrinks Utah National Monuments by 90%
The administration’s cuts to the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments include sacred Indigenous lands and archaeologically rich sites.
Art Review
The Artists Working in Velvet, Amethyst, and Relics
An exhibition showcases works by Sky Hopinka, vanessa german, April Bey, and others that have connections to spiritual practices and rituals.
Film Review
Four Centuries Later, We Still Don't Get Caravaggio
A British docudrama serves as a salutary primer on the Baroque master’s greatest works, but we should be wary of what it tells us about the personality of its subject.