Opinion
A New Banksy Mural Is a Beacon of Nope
The anonymous artist’s latest may have a personal touch, but it’s still another installment in what feels like a series of works stifled by surveillance and media fatigue.
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.
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Sebastião Salgado, Unflinching Documentary Photographer, Dies at 81
Spurred on by a desire to document his encounters and surroundings, the Brazilian photographer captured the realities of marginalized people around the world.
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Protest Targets Whitney Museum Board Ties After Canceled Performance
Demonstrators pointed to museum trustees’ links to Zionist entities and weapons used by Israel against Palestinians.
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Why Did Pope Leo XIV Invoke Van Gogh in His First Address?
“It seems to me an image of hope,” said the new pontiff in an inaugural address attended by around 40,000 people.
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Does the Art World Need a New Art Fair in Qatar?
As Art Basel opens its arms to new collectors in Doha, some critics will not look past the nation’s legacy of deadly conditions for migrant laborers.
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School of Visual Arts Faculty Are Officially Unionized
Nearly 1,200 faculty members at the New York arts and design institution will be represented by the new union after a two-thirds vote in favor.
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Met Museum Gifted Coveted Trove of 6,500 Photos
German-American art collector Artur Walther's promised gift to the museum includes iconic modern and contemporary images from Africa, China, Japan, and beyond.
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What Do Visitors Think of Thomas J. Price’s Times Square Sculpture?
Hyperallergic set out to hear from people seeing the artwork onsite, and their thoughts were considerably different from the online discourse.
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Why Is For Freedoms Designing Art for a New Brooklyn Jail? [UPDATED]
The collective proposed a series of works for the controversial Borough-Based Jails project, which has received pushback from artists and organizers.
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Koyo Kouoh, Curator Tapped for 61st Venice Biennale, Dies at 57
The museum director would have been the first African woman to oversee the Biennale.
Features
A Late Feminist Sculptor Who Plumbed the History of Human Migration
Mary Ann Unger's massive biomorphic artworks, now on view in New York City, are shockingly prescient and powerful now more than ever.
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A Bronze Tribute to Motherhood Rises in Prospect Park
The new sculpture by artist Molly Gochman channels abstraction to honor and memorialize caregivers of all forms.