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A Photographer’s Portrait of the Theater of the Streets
A pioneer of street photography, Levitt worked in the most crowded and poorest neighborhoods of New York searching for the theater of everyday life.
The Materiality of Memory in the Paintings of Eugène Leroy
Leroy’s canvases seem to be about age and decay — about the process and limits of recollection made manifest.
DU’s Emergent Digital Practices Faculty Merge Art & Technology to Inspire Change for Public Good
Graduate students in the University of Denver’s Emergent Digital Practices program work on research with faculty who are engaged directly with their communities, both online and off.
Art Classes Are Helping Transform Medical Education
Classes like Anne Willieme’s are part of the burgeoning field of medical humanities, which aims to tackle the disciplinary divide between art and science.
Ten North American Museums to Offer 12-Week $6,300 Paid Internships
Museums in Austin, Louisville, Madison, Montreal, New Orleans, Tampa, and elsewhere will be joining the program, now in its third year.
ArtYard’s Invisible Reveals “Missing Histories” in Works by 12 Artists
Curated by Jill Kearney, this exhibition in Frenchtown, NJ amplifies stories both local and universal with work by Willie Cole, Sandra Ramos, sTo Len, and more.
Twitter’s New NFT Feature is an Annoying Show-off of Crypto Wealth
On the bright side: The feature can be muted!
When The Art Connoisseur Is a Robot
A recent study has found that AI technology can identify an artist’s brushstrokes with over 90% accuracy.
The National Portrait Gallery Announces New Online Programs to Kick Off 2022
The first lecture is on the relationship between early portrait photography and diverse notions of US identity during the Gilded Age. Register to attend on January 25.
Native American Sovereignty’s Impact on the Curation of Indigenous Art
Join Hyperallergic for an online conversation with Kiowa Tribal Museum Director Tahnee Ahtone on January 25 at 7pm (EST).
Required Reading
This week, Patrisse Cullors speaks, reviewing John Richardson’s final Picasso book, the Met Museum snags a rare oil on copper by Nicolas Poussin, and much more.
Something Is Not Right With The World
Alexi Worth’s paintings demand a double take that allows viewers to look closer and begin dissembling the painting in order to understand what is being looked at.