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.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a mural for George Floyd, chilling images of a CNN reporter's arrest, anti-racism resources for white people, Trump's ghost writer, Barry Schwabsky on Hal Foster, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the world’s largest anamorphic illusion, the story behind Rosie the Riveter, not Didion's California, and much more.
Podcast
How the US Is Treating the Arts During the Pandemic, the #CancelRent Movement, and More
Hyperallergic’s news team discusses the biggest art-related stories of the last few weeks of the pandemic.
Art
Required Reading
This week, LaWhore Vagistan talks about being an auntie, art dealer Larry Gagosian speaks from his quarantine in the Hamptons, how blackness became a legal identity, the rise of conspiracy theories, and more.