Feature
Nayland Blake Doesn’t Believe in Fixed Selves
“You have to be a person who champions other work,” they told Hyperallergic, “so that you build the context within which your work can be legible.”
Art Review
Danielle Mckinney's Portraits of Black Women at Rest
Each figure in her paintings luxuriates in the dreaminess of space belonging to her and her alone.
News
Child Punctures Magritte Painting With Pinecone at Israel Museum
René Magritte's “The Castle of the Pyrenees” (1959) was removed from view to undergo restoration.
News
SAIC Puts Professor on Leave After Palestine Reference
The Chicago school is investigating the director of its art therapy graduate program after she assigned a case study that touched on pro-Palestine activism.
Feature
A First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center
With works by Idris Khan, Maya Lin, and more, the $850M campus will be a public art destination for Chicago’s South Side, if it can live up to its community.
News
Winning Penn Station Redesign Features Trump’s Name
Renderings of the station redesign show the president’s name carved into a wall, raising questions and concerns.
News
Italian Arts Workers Announce Nationwide Strike
A month after a historic Venice Biennale strike, groups say they will withhold their labor this Friday, June 12, in a call for better working conditions and in solidarity with Palestine.
Book Review
The World That Held Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
As a dyke, I particularly cherished this portrait of queer entanglement characterized by duration and valences beyond the sexual or romantic.
Art Review
Sanford Wurmfeld’s Unstable Geometry
He emphasizes the temporality of looking, as well as underscores that one’s experience of time is subjective.
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Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969
Featuring live presentations, this exhibition grounds performance as the foundation of contemporary Native Art. On view at SITE Santa Fe June 5–September 7, 2026.
Interview
Jamie Nares’s Enduring Romance With the Brushstroke
The New York-based painter and filmmaker speaks to Hyperallergic about finding the essence of things.
News
New School Lays Off Nearly 90 People, Dealing Blow to Humanities
The Manhattan institution cut 19 faculty members and 68 staffers amid mounting financial deficits and declining enrollment.