Art
Cary Leibowitz and the Comedy of Contempt
Cary Leibowitz seems to want to make us laugh.
Seph Rodney
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
The Saga of Affordable Housing, from the Historical to the Personal
This is not just an informative and enlightening show; it's also an important one, one that gets us to look at what, for some of us, is necessary to live in this particular time and place.
Art
A Ghanaian Web Series Explores Sex, Sassiness, and What It Means to Go Home Again
An African City presents West African feminine fierceness.
Art
The Products of Forced Labor in US Prisons
What I saw when I stepped from the elevator and entered the hush of the Artists Space gallery was barely anything: a red raincoat on the wall, some honey-colored wood benches that looked as if they belonged in a courtroom, and some odd steel contraptions on the floor.
Art
Museums Make Space for Public Programs on Stoops and in Parks
Examples of this trend can be seen at several major New York art institutions. Three in particular are exemplary: BRIC, Queens Museum, and the Whitney Museum.
Art
The Group Working Behind the Scenes to Diversify Museum Staffs
“I would never have gotten this opportunity without the support of the Museum Hue community,” said Stephanie PhaFa Roy, Visitor Services and Digital Content Manager at MoCADA.
Art
An Emerging World of Wonder and Desolation in Equal Parts
This installation begins with awe of the sanitized world that we may likely build in the future, and it ends with the guarantee of nothing.
Opinion
The Myth of Beyoncé and Pop Cultural Liberation
The argument is that Beyoncé’s “Formation” is complexity masquerading as simplicity. But it’s also simplicity pretending to be more complicated.
Opinion
Learning About the Figure from Picasso's Sculptures
Seeing the current retrospective of Picasso’s sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art reminded me of a graduate school experience, because as I wandered through the show I saw work that cleverly illustrated problems that sculptors would need to solve and questions they might have to answer in the cour
Art
The Evolution of the Museum Visit, from Privilege to Personalized Experience
What you experience when you visit an art museum these days is likely very different from what your parents did when they were your age.
Interview
A Conversation on Latino Representation in US Art History Departments
We spoke to Dr. Adriana Zavala, associate professor of art history and director of the Latino Studies program at Tufts University, about her research on the state of Latina/o representation in US art history departments.
Art
"This Question Is Loaded": South Bronx Artists and Organizers Imagine Their Neighborhood's Future
“Our ideal vision for the South Bronx is economic upliftment, an end to environmental degradation, and quality-of-life enhancement without displacement."