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.
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.
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.
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"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."
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In the South Bronx, Locals Respond to an Anti-Gentrification Mural
The vivid, comic book–like mural depicts bees being driven from their hives by "evil crops developer Dr. Dor," a white hipster type with skinny black trousers and square-frame eyeglasses.
Interview
A Conversation with One of the Curators Bringing African Art to the 2016 Armory Show
To curate the 2016 Focus, the Armory invited Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, the founders of Contemporary And (C&), a primarily online magazine that focuses on contemporary art being made in Africa or originating with artists from that continent and its diaspora.
Art
Portraits that Attempt to Untangle Power
Painter Margaret Bowland is wrestling with the difficult, unwieldy affairs of human social interaction: economic power, police power, physical power, that ability to influence that is inescapable.
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Fashioning an Identity for a Puerto Rican Painter on the Cusp of Modernism
The current exhibition of paintings by Francisco Oller at the Brooklyn Museum is a provocative and difficult show — a collision of curatorial strategies and recalcitrant artwork that defies the interpretive armature.
Art
Where Are the Archives of AIDS- and HIV-Related Art in the US?
There are several US organizations and libraries that contain key archives documenting art practices and work linked with AIDS and artists living with HIV.
Interview
Why Are There So Few Black Full Professors of Art History in the US?
Steven Nelson, professor of art history at UCLA, and Director of the African Studies Center, recently tweeted that he is a member of a rare and exceptional group: one of six full professors in art history, who are black, in the United States.
Art
The Precarious Lives of Freelance Museum Educators
Museum educators are crucial to museums’ long-term public engagement, but these freelancers lack the job security of a full-time, salaried position.
Art
The Freelance Educators Who Teach Children to Love Museums
Museum education is a significant aspect of the way museums interface with their audiences, and freelance educators have made themselves crucial to the operation of many of New York’s main art institutions.
Art
Five Ways to Disrupt White Supremacy in the Mainstream Art World
“What would you do to disrupt white supremacy in the current system of art production?