Satire
Brooklyn Museum Announces “Pay What We Wish” Admissions
The policy is the museum’s newest attempt to shift its financial burden onto its lowest-ranking staff and the public.
Lisa Yin Zhang
Lisa Yin Zhang is Associate Editor at Hyperallergic, based in Queens, New York.
Satire
You’ve Heard of “The Scream,” Now Get Ready for “The Ick”
Much like the iconic piece, a suite of five “never-before-seen” works tackles big emotions.
Art
Five New York City Shows to See Right Now
Catherine Murphy, Dorothy Hood, and David Kennedy Cutler are among the artists who are taking us off the path of the everyday and into the inexplicable this week.
Art Review
An Artist Captures Life’s Relentless Too-Muchness
David Kennedy Cutler captures a time in which image has fully metastasized into reality — a mediated world where everything is always on and calling for you.
Art
Five Shows to See in New York City Right Now
Nick Cave leaves behind his Soundsuits, Ericka Beckman reimagines a fairy tale, American Artist explores the sci-fi world of Octavia E. Butler, and more.
Art Review
How Do You Paint Language?
A group show curated by Hilton Als meditates on words in the visual arts, but wields silence in ways that verge on obstinate obscurity.
Art
Five New York City Shows to See This Week
From Norman Bluhm’s reinvented abstraction to the history of Barbie at the Museum of Arts and Design, we’re looking at a diverse array of art this week.
Art
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gift to New York
“The Gates” was an artwork within an artwork, inscribing the populist impulse of Central Park into 7,500+ neon orange armatures with billowing fabric.
Books
10 Art Books for Your March Reading List
Delve into Lucy Lippard’s short fictions, Tamara Lanier’s indelible memoir, The White Pube’s tales of absurdity in the art world, new perspectives on Mucha, and more.
Art
Five NYC Art Shows to See This Week
See socially and politically engaged art, Trenton Doyle Hancock paired with Philip Guston, plus geometric abstraction and some medieval treasures.
Art
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s Ballad of the Bomb
The US deployed the largest aerial bombardment in history during the Vietnam War. Here, the artist tells the plaintive story of those unexploded weapons.
Art
Alex Strada Says “No” to NIMBYs
The show argues that caring for unhoused and dispossessed people is not a task to be sloughed off to the “city,” but rather a responsibility each of us shoulders.