Guide
15 Art Books to Gift This Holiday Season
A Ruth Asawa catalog for the disenchanted, artsy almanac for the planners, Prospect Park photo book for the New Yorkers, Vermeer tome for the Golden Age fans, and much more.
Hakim Bishara
Hakim Bishara is Hyperallergic's Editor-in-Chief. He is a recipient of the 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation and Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant, and he holds an MFA in Art Writing from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Book Review
An Ode to Lois Dodd
A new monograph on the nonagenarian American painter is a well of bliss.
Guide
10 Art Books to Read This Month
Hew Locke’s new monograph, an anthology of the Studio Museum’s collection, Brandon Taylor’s latest novel, and more to dive into this October.
Community
Required Reading
McCarthyism 2.0, MAGA hits a wall, feminist spice mill collective, man with a giant vegetable, Tesla douchebags, and more.
Out There
We Are All Picasso’s Fishermen
The artist painted a balmy summer scene in August 1939. Could anyone imagine the impending horrors?
Community
Required Reading
The beauty of Iranian brickwork, the murderous silence on Gaza, the truth about Coldplay, and the anglerfish that touched the hearts of millions.
Guide
Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
From Glenn Ligon’s critique of society’s ills to Diane Arbus’s complicity in them, the solo shows below provide plenty of food for thought.
Art Review
A Massive Diane Arbus Exhibition Does So Little
Questionable curatorial choices seem intended to prevent critical discussion in a major survey at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory.
Opinion
The Fabricated Crisis of Art Criticism
The genre is more alive than ever, so why are many eager to pronounce it dead?
News
Frieze New York Is Back to Its Old Ways
The blue-chip art market inflates with anger and slams its fist if you keep pestering it with the nuisance of the outside world.
Books
10 Art Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer
The art of Marsha P. Johnson, Yoko Ono reappraised, Jack Whitten’s studio notebook, a fictional curator’s Greece trip goes awry, and more to read this season.
Art
We Are the New Romantics
Just like Caspar David Friedrich and the Romanticists, we live in anxious times and hunger for a touch of the sublime.