Art
Required Reading
This week, museums and white supremacy, feminist art and the image of Aunt Jemima, reviewing a book about art and prisons, talking about reparations for Black Americans, a racist sculptor skit, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Interview
How Do We Photograph Freedom? A Conversation with Leigh Raiford
The relationship between Black liberation and photography reveals many things about our notions of freedom and the limitations of image making as a form of common truth.
Art
Sunday Edition, Juneteenth: ✊🏿From Images of Liberation to Remembrances🍷
A collection of the complicated and powerful stories that orbit Juneteenth.
Art
Required Reading
This week, John Bolton's late revelations; the difference between photography in books, exhibitions, and on screens; corporate profiteering off racism; architecture's coronavirus moment; and more.
Podcast
Christopher Knight: The Critic Whose Love for LA Uplifted Its Arts Community
The veteran art critic has played a formidable role in helping to shape the world’s perception of contemporary art in Los Angeles.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Black Lives Matter is changing the world and here are some links that address many of the issues people are talking about.
Podcast
The Monumental Impact of Black Lives Matter Protests
Hyperallergic’s news team discusses the toppling of racist statues and considers how the quest for justice continues during protests worldwide.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Soraya Nadia McDonald on the neck as a point of subjugation and control, Nicole J. Caruth on Black birth, Saidiya Hartman on the end of White Supremacy, John Edwin Mason on protest images, Hari Kunzu on Masha Gessen's new book, and more.
Opinion
As Black Lives Matter Protests Continue, Some NYC Art Galleries Board Up Storefronts
Now, some galleries are taking measures to conceal their windows or board up, but others have long used telling architectural markers of exclusion to discourage diverse audiences.
Podcast
Our Obsession With Less and Its Co-option by Silicon Valley
Kyle Chayka’s new book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, probes the corporate world’s love of minimalist design and what it might mean.
Art
Sunday Edition, Minimalisms: ⬜ From Daitokuji to Normie Modernism ⬛
This week, we explore the notion that less is more as Minimalisms, yes, plural, is the focus of this Sunday Edition. While most people may associate the term “Minimalism” to the modern art movement that originated in 1960s New York, the history of the design tendency for less is more
Art
Photographs From the George Floyd Protests Show Minneapolis in Mourning
The killing of another Black man, George Floyd, in one of the largest cities in the US has ignited protests across the country. The site of his murder has become a makeshift memorial site for his grieving community.