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Guide
A romp through early punk culture, Odilon Redon’s dreamy portraiture, Willie Birch’s papier-mâché odes to New Orleans, Samella Lewis’s visions in woodcut, and more.
Feature
“We want to act as a little eddy in the stream of gentrification, giving these houses one last burst of life before they’re gone,” one of the organizers of “Once Removed” told Hyperallergic.
News
"Sleeping By the Lion Carpet" (1995–96) is the last in a series of monumental portraits of Sue Tilley in resting postures.
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.
“I believe in the fact that the people hold the power,” the Lebanese-born representing artist of the Australian pavilion told Hyperallergic.
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.
“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.
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Obituary
While his contemporaries focused on abstraction’s retinal possibilities, he viewed the liberation of the spectator as parallel to society's.
News
Millions of residents across New York State are now eligible for the "Explorer" program, which offers perks like streamlined entry and special previews.
Feature
The annual festival, which went on hiatus during the pandemic, welcomed visitors into the workspaces of over 250 artists in the Brooklyn neighborhood.
News
The curator and commentator built a following for her online persona and satirical memes of the art world.
News
New site markers installed in the Hudson River Valley city last month have been decried as “bland,” “ugly,” and “sterile slop.”
Art Review
She puts her own spin on autobiography, exceeding her own cult status as a monastic artist.
Feature
Ali Eyal and David Horvitz satirize America’s oil war in an installation at a Chevron gas station on Venice Boulevard.
Opinion
We must cultivate spaces with the capacity to hold another kind of cultural experience that forges a reintegration of art and life.
Opportunities
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the VH Award, Bennett Prize, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
Opinion
After spring's marquee auctions, we are led to believe that everything in our important art universe is doing just fine. It isn't.
Art Review
Her depictions of individuals in settings that seem both out of time and of this moment represent one of many engaging paradoxes.
News
“This is how corporations bully individuals who cannot match their resources,” said the artist and activist.