Feature
Lula Victory Memes That Make Us All Want to Be Brazilian
Images rooted in queer and pop culture and national pride celebrate a progressive win at the polls and a step back for fascism.
Rhea Nayyar
Rhea Nayyar (she/her) is a New York City-based staff reporter at Hyperallergic. She received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and has a passion for small-scale artworks, elevating minority perspectives, and dogspotting at art world events.
Film
Kid Cudi to Write, Direct, and Star as Basquiat in New Biopic
The rapper called his forthcoming film, "JEAN," a “love letter” to the late artist and ’80s New York in his announcement on October 21.
News
Louvre Among Major Paris Museums to Shutter During Saturday Protests
The Fondation Cartier, galleries including Gagosian and Perrotin, and Art Basel Paris will remain closed all weekend.
News
Is Germany's Far-Right AfD Co-Opting Joseph Beuys?
Dozens of galleries from Düsseldorf and Cologne signed a letter condemning the anti-immigrant party's invocation of the postwar artist in promotions for an upcoming event.
New York Newsletter
Live From the Lavender Lake
Dispatches from open studios events across town and the Tompkins Square Dog Halloween Parade.
Museum Unions
V&A Museum Staff Set to Strike Across All Four London Sites
Allegations of “Amazon-style” working conditions and calls for pay raises prompted unionized workers to authorize yet another strike at the UK museum network.
Feature
Gowanus Open Studios Turns 30
This year’s iteration of the artistic assembly was a love letter to the neighborhood and its craftsmanship amid an era of remediation, development, and gentrification.
News
Massive King Ramses II Statues Unearthed in Egypt
The two sculptures were discovered after a citizen found a hieroglyph-etched stone on his property.
News
Rembrandt’s Ancient Obsessions Are Made Anew in Upcoming Met Exhibition
Co-organized with the Louvre, "Rembrandt and the Ancients" opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in November 2027 and will travel to Paris in 2028.
Feature
Jazmine Hayes Charts Community Displacement, Resilience in Brownsville Art Commission
“I genuinely want any child that walks through this door to be and feel protected,” the East New York-raised artist told Hyperallergic.
New York Newsletter
NYC Artists Open Their Doors
Open studios and houses, plus reviews of Betty Parsons, Riddikuluz, and the L train burlesque.
Trump Administration
Utah Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Nine Mile Canyon Construction Project
The environmental organizations filed a suit against the Bureau of Land Management for approving the project that endangers centuries-old Indigenous petroglyphs.