Art
In Nate Lewis’s Hands, Portraits Become Palpable Landscapes
Here are Black bodies in motion which Lewis freezes in time to remake into patterns of overlapping leaves or the stars of shrunken constellations.
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
Disappointed in the World’s Most Viral Video
I asked myself what makes entertainment media go viral, in particular music videos, these videos that call up some feeling of want or remembrance so that millions of people (or perhaps billions) reach for them again and again.
Books
Books About Pandemic and Contagion Free Online via Duke University Press
These books and articles deal with the most bedeviling questions that arise out of viral outbreaks, and offer intriguing studies by which we can chart a course toward health.
Art
What Does It Mean to Exhibit “Black Excellence”?
Two shows in New York City take profoundly different approaches to the idea, but are worth comparing for how they represent being Black and talented or accomplished.
Satire
Buddha's To-do List Discovered in India
The Buddha, like all of us, appears to have needed the periodic reminder to pick up eggs and contact his mom.
News
In the South Bronx, an Arts Center Offers Free Meals to Its Community During Pandemic
During the COVID-19 crisis, DreamYard pivoted its community-forward mission to provide free lunches on weekdays.
Art
What It’s Like to Visit Virtual Galleries as an Art Critic
Due to the pandemic, museums and galleries are now creating virtual experiences. Here’s what it’s like to visit them.
Art
Spring/Break Art Show Is a Work of Art Worth Diving Into
Titled In Excess, this year's Spring/Break is brimming with projects that deepen and extend a feeling of immersion by being hallucinatory, obsessive, and ravishing.
Art
Mixing the Modern and Ancient at Master Drawings New York
“I was genuinely and pleasantly surprised to find innovative contemporary works among the typical somberly scholastic approach at this year’s edition of Master Drawings New York.”
Art
10,000 Photos Document Alvin Ailey’s Groundbreaking Dances
The collection of wonderful photographs, now online, chronicles the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 1961 to 1994.
Art
The Unbridled, Exceptional Techniques of Nicolas Moufarrege
It’s not just that Moufarrege broke rules key to representational fidelity; he did it so elegantly that the rules thereafter seem like arbitrary ways of holding back a sensibility best left unrestrained.
Art
In Baltimore, Generations Traces a Lineage of Abstraction Among Black Artists
Most shows can’t or don’t hold these very separate aspects in synchronous rotation: sober assessment of an art historical lineage and a feeling of intimacy. This one does.