Seph Rodney, PhD, is a former editor for Hyperallergic, and is now a regular contributor to Hyperallergic and the New York Times. He received the Rabkin Prize for arts journalism in 2020 and an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2022.
Art
I visited Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, to see Un l Fixed Homeland less because of the ideas behind it and more because it features a group of Guyanese artists I didn't know — artists I thought might offer diverse views of history, memory, perception, and documentation.
Art
Ronald Lockett believed in magic. So said sculptor Kevin Sampson during a talk in July at the American Folk Art Museum.
Art
What is a DJ? Maybe you can get to an answer by understanding where the DJ is — that pivot point, that hub around which we as dancers oscillate, in the orbit of the music the DJ arranges and organizes.
Interview
Masks present a quandary. It's not so much what they're hiding that I wonder about, but what the camouflage or costuming is meant to produce in me.
Art
A public health crisis is one of these human occurrences that brings several contravening responses and feelings to the surface: fear, recrimination, massive research efforts, emotional appeals for safety and help, charitable sacrifice, anger, religious discrimination, political advocacy, and on.
Art
When you walk into Spencer Brownstone gallery from off the street there’s no chance to mentally transition, unlike some galleries where there’s an elevator ride, or a long hallway, or the exhibition space is far from the front desk.
Opinion
First you see red. Red halts the traffic. An undulant corpus of red women crosses the Bowery and flows toward the New Museum, breaks into an arc and then a circle
Art
We Run Things at the Y Gallery, featuring the artists Mie Olise, Manuela Viera-Gallo, and Summer Wheat, is an excellent show.
Art
LOS ANGELES — The first time I'd ever walked into an art museum I was confronted by a sculpture, free standing, that both seemed like a representation of a human body, a penis, and a catamaran — all at the sam
News
The U.S. Latina/o Art Forum has just put out a call to action for all its members, urging them to “increase the representation of Latinx art at the 2017 Annual [College Art Association] Conference by submitting a proposal to present a paper.”
Art
It’s an oh-so-good premise for an exhibition: exploring the female gaze.
Art
LOS ANGELES — "You don't know what work is." That's the last line of a poem by Philip Levine that immediately comes to mind when I wind my way through the Made in LA 2016 exhibition at the Hammer Museum and arrive at the final piece I encounter during my visit.