Art
Required Reading
This week, the rich and their distaste for real reporting, museums and racism, dispronouncing people's names, Mommalorians, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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.
News
In Striking Photos, Black Mothers Contemplate the Reality Facing Their Sons
In Stranger Fruit, artist Jon Henry asks Black mothers to pose with their sons in a manner that evokes the Madonna and child.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the story of New York librarian Anne Carroll Moore, the disaster facing NYC restaurants, the rise of anti-Asian bias in the US, the story of a census worker, Uyghur poetry, and more.
Podcast
National Gallery of Art Director Discusses the Decision to Delay the Philip Guston Exhibition
I talked to Kaywin Feldman to ask why the museum chose to delay the show by the well-known American artist.
Art
Hank Willis Thomas Gives an Infamous Modern Art Diagram a Postcolonial Update
The conceptual artist provides a much needed update to Alfred J. Barr, Jr’s well-known chart.