News

Beloved CUNY Social Practice Art Program to Shut Down

The artist-led project will shutter in February as co-directors Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette depart their academic posts.

New York Newsletter

Duchamp in New York

MoMA opens its latest blockbuster, Jasper Johns keeps looking, Aruna D’Souza responds to Josh Kline, and much more.

Feature

40 Years Later, Houston's FotoFest Keeps Its Edge

The photography festival’s anniversary retrospective embodies the spirit of freedom and internationalism present since its founding.

Art Review

Michaelina Wautier Finally Known by Her Name

For centuries, her masterpieces were misattributed to male painters. A new exhibition at London's Royal Academy corrects the record.

Daily Newsletter

Ai Weiwei on Censorship

A thought-provoking book by the dissident artist, Trump's latest offensive meme, and artist-activist Celeste Dupuy-Spencer dies at 46.

Obituaries

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Artist Who Confronted Injustice, Dies at 46

She stood up for human rights in both her paintings and her advocacy, criticizing Israel’s violence against Palestinians and the rise of fascism in the US.

News

Gagosian to Debut New Gallery With Duchamp’s “Readymades”

The exhibition will run concurrently with the artist's first United States retrospective in over 50 years at the Museum of Modern Art.

Opinion

Trump Plays Christ and Gets the Wound Wrong

The president’s latest attempt to fashion himself as an American messiah is costing him some of his most loyal Catholic supporters.

News

Chicana Painter Criselda Vasquez Says ICE Detained Her Father

Vasquez was inspired by her Mexican immigrant parents to paint her celebrated 2017 portrait “The New American Gothic.”

Art Review

Steve DiBenedetto’s Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

He conceives of a painting as a search for a functional structure, a talisman that can aid viewers amid our collective sense of traumatic crisis.

Member Event

Jeremy Frey: The Generational Impact of a New Artistic Path

Join us on April 29 for a conversation with artist and recent MacArthur Fellowship winner Jeremy Frey and Hyperallergic Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian.

Book Review

Ai Weiwei and the Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut

“On Censorship” offers timely reflections from the dissident artist, whose entire life and career have been marked by state persecution.