Art Review
Faith Ringgold's Story Quilts Get to the Heart of Being Human
Through her creative lives as author, illustrator, painter, quilter, sculptor, and activist, Ringgold spoke to the urgency and vulnerability of life.
Jasmine Weber
Jasmine Weber is an artist, writer, and former news editor at Hyperallergic.
Interview
For Sylvia Snowden, Color Is Life
The 83-year-old artist has dubbed her painterly detonations of color, which physically undulate from their surfaces, as “structural abstract expressionism.”
Art Review
The Timeliness of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Philosophies
His prevailing influence over social theory and racial philosophy proves as relevant as ever in a group exhibition that explores his ideas, research, and legacy.
Book Review
Coreen Simpson’s Timeless Ode to Black Beauty
Her photography captures both celebrities and everyday people with such intimacy that they might call to mind your neighbors and friends.
Guide
15 Art Books to Gift This Holiday Season
A Ruth Asawa catalog for the disenchanted, artsy almanac for the planners, Prospect Park photo book for the New Yorkers, Vermeer tome for the Golden Age fans, and much more.
Book Review
Barkley L. Hendricks’s Studio Was a Wonderland of Inspiration
A photo book documenting the late artist’s colorful, cluttered studio shows an amalgamation of decades’ worth of inspiration.
News
Frank Wimberley, Artist of Controlled Accidents, Dies at 99
His life was marked by a devotion to experimentation and an excitement for creative possibility.
Guide
10 Art Books to Read This Month
Hew Locke’s new monograph, an anthology of the Studio Museum’s collection, Brandon Taylor’s latest novel, and more to dive into this October.
Features
Alison Saar’s Artistic Revolution
The artist talks to Hyperallergic about being raised by strong Black women, creating with abandon, and the full-circle significance of receiving the David C. Driskell Prize.
Art Review
Adrift in Betye Saar’s Crepuscular Dreamscape
The artist’s site-specific commission at the Huntington makes you feel like you’re floating in space, or suspended underwater.
Guide
8 Art Books to Read This Pride Month
Dig into new and upcoming tomes on the long lineage of LGBTQ+ art, from Beauford Delaney’s bond with James Baldwin to iconic lesbian photographer JEB and Alice Austen.
Books
10 Art Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer
The art of Marsha P. Johnson, Yoko Ono reappraised, Jack Whitten’s studio notebook, a fictional curator’s Greece trip goes awry, and more to read this season.