Art Review
Centuries of Endurance Undergird “In Minor Keys”
The main exhibition of the 2026 Venice Biennale sets rage and retribution aside, relaxing the oppressed’s clenched fist for a moment of calm, centeredness, and self-forgiveness.
Interview
“I believe in the fact that the people hold the power,” the Lebanese-born representing artist of the Australian pavilion told Hyperallergic.
In Memoriam
This week, we also honor Tess Jaray, luminary of abstraction, and Ben Morea, counterculture icon.
News
A group of researchers at University College London identified a relationship between consuming and creating art and a lower biological age.
A novel lampooning the art world, Megan O’Grady’s meditation on art and living, the man who defined color in the dictionary, Nan Goldin’s tender photo essay, and more.
With “Elegy,” the South African artist proposes that grief is a necessary tool for building solidarity.
Trump's new golden statue in Miami has been compared to the Golden Calf, but it's more akin to a Moloch idol.
“I wanted to rip the mask off the signifier and just deal with the signified,” said the cartoonist-turned-painter who depicts a cosmology of American identity and activism.
The Venice Biennale’s international art exhibition is an unexpected symphony that asks us to ponder what may otherwise be overlooked.
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Bennett Prize, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
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Opinion
If “pothole politics” is about fixing what people experience in their daily lives, then cultural funding should follow the same logic: steady, predictable, and built to last.
News
The brazen theft at the Paris museum is set for a film adaptation amid an ongoing investigation and the stolen jewels still at large.
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Announcement
At Museum Rietberg, 20 global artists transform colonial photographs into new narratives of memory, identity, and resistance.
Art Review
In the artist's paintings, are we looking at plants in a state of beautiful decay, ghosts, deities, fairylands, or something from a dream?
News
The statue of Caesar Rodney, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who enslaved at least 200 people, is now on display in DC's Freedom Plaza.
News
The prolific tagger boldly transformed the city's street infrastructure for decades.
News
The trust said gallerist James Danziger's AI-altered editions, offered at an art fair, “exploited Ansel’s name, reputation, and his most iconic image."
Feature
Behind The Huntington Library’s glass cases, the layers of motherhood, career, friendship, family, and loss are revealed in personal objects.
Art Review
The artist’s play on light and shadow transforms Venetian blinds into haunting reflections on exile, borders, and the longing for reunification.
Art Review
A first-of-its-kind exhibition honors the pathbreaking artist's Black and Indigenous ancestries.
Art Review
She rejected fascism not only by depicting what she endured in the Holocaust but also the tenderness of everyday Romani life.
Features
Nearing the occasion of her 100th birthday, an exhibition at the New York Historical celebrates Saar’s promised gift of her collection of dolls to the institution.