Art • Weekend
Leonor Fini’s Erotic Theater
Fini’s art disarmed male authority and dissolved gender norms, with delicate, nude men attended by sumptuously dressed, leonine females.
The Latest
Music • Weekend
Turning Inward with Robyn, Gazelle Twin, Rosalia, and Low
Four introspective new albums depict the outside world in microcosm.
Art • Weekend
Jessica Campbell and the Ghost of Emily Carr
Campbell implies that there has been one constant in the experiences of women across generations: the sexual aggression of men.
Books • Weekend
The 1980s in New York
New books by Ingrid Sischy and Gary Indiana expand our understanding of a crucial decade.
Opinion
Frieze Is Selling a Fantasy of Los Angeles
All the LA-centric promotion of Frieze has bled into the fair, and flattened everything into commodity.
Placing Art in Hotel Rooms Can Yield Genuinely Surprising Results
At the inaugural Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles, visitors can weave in and out of the poolside rooms with relative ease, though expect the usual hustle-and-bustle feel of art commerce in action.
Art
Black as a Sensory Experience
In PURE, VERY, NEW, Paul Stephen Benjamin’s conceptual art pushes the boundaries of the color black and offers new experiences of sound, vision, and light.
Photo Essays
The Soulful Standouts Amid the Fanfare of Frieze LA
As usual in large commercial fairs, most of what you’ll see at Frieze quickly devolves into so much product, but there is still some soul to be found amongst the gaudy baubles.
A Doll’s House that Verges on Being Livable
What kind of house is this, that ping pongs between two- and three-dimensional representations that are merely fantasy or merely decorative and pieces that have clear utilitarian use?
News
Cuban Artists Urge Havana Biennial Participants to Act in Political Solidarity
They ask the biennial participants to feature artists affected by Decree 349, or wear T-shirts opposing the decree during their time in Cuba.
Podcast
Hyperallergic Editors Reflect on Warhol’s Superbowl Commercial, MoMA Expansion, and More
This week was a snowy one in Brooklyn, so Hyperallergic editors decided to gather and chat about some of the stories we’ve been reporting on.
sponsored
Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For on View at Americas Society
The exhibition is curated by Miguel A. López (TEOR/éTica and Lado V, San José, Costa Rica). On view through May 4, 2019.