Podcast
On Election Day, Reflecting on Months of Political Arts Reporting
Hyperallergic’s news team discusses the artistic track records of the Democratic candidates, creative projects combatting voter disenfranchisement, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Required Reading
This week, ethical art careers, Vic Berger's surrealist Trump video portrait, computer-generated influencers, Jeffrey Gibson's hybrid exhibition, white supremacy and white marble, and more.
Podcast
Where Did the Deepfakes Go?
In this wide-ranging conversation, artist and technologist An Xiao Mina discusses the election cycle and the way propaganda is and isn't being used.
News
Propaganda: 📣 From Screed to Screen📱
This edition, we look at the origins of the term propaganda, some 20th-century incarnations, and how propaganda is playing out during the 2020 US election.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the rich and their distaste for real reporting, museums and racism, dispronouncing people's names, Mommalorians, and more.
Podcast
Sam Durant Revisits the “Scaffold” Controversy Three Years Later
The artist discusses the controversial incident three years ago in a new essay that explores the conversations prompted with the Walker Art Center.
Books
100 Years of Photographs of Gay Men in Love
Hundreds of photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries offer a glimpse at the life of gay men during a time when their love was illegal almost everywhere.
Art
Claudia Hart Breathes Life into Static Tropes of Modernism
The Ruins at Bitforms Gallery riffs off the work of influential Modernists to create vivid digital simulations
Art
Required Reading
This week, the US loves classical architecture, bookstore sales drop severely, architects speak out about exploitation, scholars review books, and more.
Art
Outfitted With Symbolic Rifles, Female Collective Raises Awareness for a Largely Ignored War
Performers took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles to raise awareness about the escalating war in the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Art
Sunday Edition, Catalogue Essays: 🗿 From Broken Noses to Hip-Hop’s Afrofuturism 🔮
A selection of some extraordinary essays found in art museum exhibition catalogues across the United States.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Jacob Lawrence's history of the US, interview with the Pence fly, the post-Trump internet, the violence of "dispassionate objectivity," hijacking #ProudBoys, and more.