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Seph Rodney
Seph Rodney, PhD, is a former senior critic and Opinion Editor for Hyperallergic, and is now a regular contributor to it and the New York Times. In 2020, he won the Rabkin Arts Journalism prize and in 2022 won the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Seph can be heard on the podcast The American Age.
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On Grieving and Mourning With Art
Confronted with a new national consciousness around racial inequity, two New York City art exhibitions focus on mourning with varying degrees of success.
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Michael Rakowitz Makes a Life Out of Fragments
Rakowitz has installed at the Wellin a partial reconstruction of “Room H” within the Northwest Palace of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud.
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With David Hammons, Meaning and Process Hold Hands
In Hammons’s body prints, the veteran artist melds method, intention, and significance.
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An Ode to the Year That Will Live on in Infamy
The Twenty Twenty exhibition at the Aldrich uses using hand drawing to record and describe the cascade of catastrophes that made 2020 feel like an entire decade.
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A Premature Celebration of the Ascension of Black Artists
Black Art, HBO’s documentary on Black visual artists, unwittingly demonstrates what a community gives up when it strives toward the mainstream.
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Representation Alone Will Not Save Us
We love representation, the power of signifying, and the incisiveness of well-argued critique, but by themselves, these tools won’t effect structural change.
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Special Edition: 🤯 The Year We Had 😷
This year-end issue of the Hyperallergic Special Edition consists of reflections, that acknowledge the struggles that the Hyperallergic team — staff writers and editors — experienced right along with our readers, while also keeping in sight the exhibitions, events, protests, and initiatives that buoyed us.
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Derek Fordjour Conjures a Heavenly World
In “Self Must Die,” Fordjour’s penchant for lush colors and surfaces dovetails with the theme of churchified rituals of remembrance.
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Black Artists Claim Their Birthright of Abstraction
The artists at False Flag Gallery demonstrate the through line between art of the African continent and modern abstraction.
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Welcome to the Empty Gallery That Speaks Volumes
Mike Zahn gives us an image of Shrine’s empty gallery projected in the empty space, offering a commentary both meta and melancholic.
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Have an Informed Opinion About Art? We Want to Hear It
We are seeking opinions that encourage and cultivate thoughtful debate and make it possible to see aspects of an exhibition, policy, or initiative that we had not considered before.
