Daily Newsletter

Life According to Sylvia Snowden and Joan Semmel

Also: a graffiti artist's protest against ICE deportations, TIME Magazine's miserable "Person of the Year" cover, and the enduring relevance of W. E. B. Du Bois.

Weekly Newsletter

If I Had a Picasso

The best art and books of 2025, cuts at the New School, and the return of a beloved Hyperallergic column.

News

TIME’s “Person of the Year” Swaps Construction Workers for Tech Billionaires

Nothing says "person of the year" like replacing Depression-era workers with the billionaires making our skills obsolete.

Art Review

Joan Semmel’s Paintings Are Beautifully Disturbing

The nonagenarian artist insists that women’s bodies are interesting for more than their eroticism.

Interview

For Sylvia Snowden, Color Is Life

The 83-year-old artist has dubbed her painterly detonations of color, which physically undulate from their surfaces, as “structural abstract expressionism.”

Art Review

The Glitter and Doom of Lee Miller's Vision

From her collaborations with Man Ray to her work as a WWII photographer, the artist retained a mix of defiance, poignance, and brazen, oddball humor.

News

New York Graffiti Shows ICE Arresting the Statue of Liberty

The artist says he drew inspiration from the subway art of Keith Haring.

Art Review

The Timeliness of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Philosophies

His prevailing influence over social theory and racial philosophy proves as relevant as ever in a group exhibition that explores his ideas, research, and legacy.

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Announcement

Artist Connor Wright Debuts Solo Presentation: Alexa, Truth or Dare?

On view in Manhattan through January 20, 2026, Wright’s new large-scale paintings engage with the speed, scale, and inundation of images today.

Daily Newsletter

The Year in Memes

Also, a $117 Picasso, Coreen Simpson's monograph, and Jeff Wall's disorienting photography.

Memes

The Memes That Defined 2025

This year gave us the Hero With a Hero, the Coldplay couple, and the Somali diaspora's incredible flipping of the script on Trump's racism.

Community

Art Movements: Big Museum News

MacKenzie Scott's significant gift to the Japanese American National Museum, the little design hippo that could, and a new Rijksmuseum where?