Art
Welcome to the Dustbin of History
Jake Scharbach's paintings dump on some iconic portraits as a way to highlight the crisis we're living through.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
A Robot Dog Is Painting Self-Portraits at the 2022 Spring Break Art Fair
There's an artist currently showing in Midtown Manhattan who is teaching a machine to paint.
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Required Reading
This week, drone photo awards, uncovering unverified Indigenous identity, vacationing in the Metaverse, the beauty industrial complex, and more.
Art
The Vulnerable Painterly Worlds of Katherine Bradford
In Bradford’s color-infused world of superheroes and swimmers, viewers and her figures bathe together outside of time and space.
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Required Reading
This week, new photos of Jupiter, film audiences and critics disagree, Andrew Wyeth's funerary drawings, Diva Kid meme reborn, and more.
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Required Reading
This week, an architect designs his own home, unraveling the white supremacy of archives, pigeons in New York City, being "Asian" in the United States, apologizing to Sacheen Littlefeather, and more.
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Required Reading
This week, award-winning nature photography, reviewing Jared Kushner's new book, Smithsonian NMAAHC hires a new digital curator, Damien Hirst plans to burn paintings, and more.
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Required Reading
This week, the Getty Museum is returning ancient terracottas to Italy, parsing an antisemitic mural at Documenta, an ancient gold find in Denmark, a new puritanism, slavery in early Christianity, and much more.
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Required Reading
This week, the Webb space telescope wows, übernovels, crappy pigeon nests, the problem with "experts," and much more.
Podcast
The Cartoonist the US Right-Wing Political Establishment Loves to Hate
Eli Valley is one of the best American cartoonists and the political elite can’t stand his viral comics that pack a punch.
Podcast
Artists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin Discuss Digital Combines
Two new media-based artists have a conversation about the new energy in the contemporary art field and the limitations of categories for artists.
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Required Reading
This week, a rare fossil is discovered, a new book on artist Niki de Saint Phalle is published, the erasure of women philosophers continues, a culinary map of China, and much more.