Art
Required Reading
This week, a newly authenticated van Gogh, critics hate Thomas Heatherwick's "Vessel," US soft power and the literary avant-garde, National Museum of the American Indian's magazine is available for free online, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Podcast
A Museum Hires a Full-time Therapist
Is a museum visit just what the doctor ordered? In Montreal, medical professionals can prescribe you a museum visit. There's also a full-time art therapist on staff.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the world's tallest indoor waterfall, reality check at Hudson Yards, roots of white nationalism, a rare 15th-century Irish translation of an 11th-century Persian medical encyclopedia, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, museums have to change, academic publishers under siege, ignoring tear gas at the Warhol show, Meghan McCain and Eli Valley, and more.
Podcast
Discussing Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
In a region often overlooked on the maps of modern art lovers, one man has made it his mission to inform the world.
Art
Required Reading
This week, blackness, distrust in media, the original instructions to Tetris, face tattoos, and contemporary women artists in Georgia and more.
Podcast
Traveling Through the Uyghur Homeland with Artist Lisa Ross
For 17 years, artist Lisa Ross has been documenting the lands of Western China that are home to Uyghurs, a population that is threatened today by the Chinese authorities.
News
Cohen Testimony Reveals Trump Staged High Bidder for His Portrait at Art Hamptons Auction
He told Congress, "The objective was to ensure that his portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon."
Art
Required Reading
This week, the first Metropolitan Museum, Frank Stella's lost Black painting, Eli Valley's amazing comics, “the most LA thing ever,” racist yearbooks, and more.
In Brief
Visitors to the Grand Canyon Museum May Have Been Exposed to Dangerous Radiation
For 18 years, three buckets of uranium ore sat in a museum storage area close to the galleries.
Art
Required Reading
This week, surrealist photography, the new anti-semitism, fighting the corporatization of Burning Man, the monotony of contemporary architecture, Lagos's art scene, and more.
Podcast
Hyperallergic Editors Reflect on Warhol’s Superbowl Commercial, MoMA Expansion, and More
This week was a snowy one in Brooklyn, so Hyperallergic editors decided to gather and chat about some of the stories we've been reporting on.