Art
Shaking Up Op Art
Takuji Hamanaka's works seem to have been made by a mason who lives in a heightened state of consciousness.
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The Artist Who Ate the Art Basel Banana Returns With a Surprisingly Sentimental Exhibition of His Own
For The Hungry Artist Exhibit, David Datuna invites us to reenact the “performance piece” in which he ate Maurizio Cattelan’s $120,000 banana artwork.
In Brief
Metropolitan Museum Announces New Commissions by Carol Bove and Héctor Zamora
On April 21, Zamora will activate the roof garden, while Bove’s work will fill the façade niches starting September 9.
News
Report Exposes Physical Abuse Allegations Against Philadelphia Museum of Art's Former Retail Director
Employees tell the Philadelphia Inquirer that James A. Cincotta would hit, slap, punch, pinch, and shove his colleagues to the point of bruising and tears, as well as denigrate them verbally, often in public.
Art
The Anonymous Women Who Embroidered the Cruel History of the Chilean Dictatorship
The arpilleras narrated the course of Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship through bold colors, broad stitching, and striking imagery, often incorporating fabrics from their disappeared children’s clothes.
Film
Young Muslims Speak Out About Life Under Constant Surveillance in the UK
In his installation film The Destructors, Imran Peretta looks at the trauma inflicted by counterterrorism laws.
Books
A Writer-Turned-Filmmaker Hits the Sweet Spot of Historical Fiction
With his latest novel Yellow Earth, Sayles showcases his knack for capturing the character of a region and the real-life ramifications of political and social issues.
Art
Mike Henderson, a Bay Area Pioneer, on His Evolution Through Abstraction
The painter and musician moved West in 1965 to attend the San Francisco Art Institute — the only desegregated art institute at the time. Currently featured in the traveling Soul of a Nation, he continues to make ambitious work.
Film
Pedro Costa on Vitalina Varela and the Importance of “Everything That Goes Unsaid”
Hyperallergic spoke with the prolific Portuguese director about his distinct approach: “I tend to have this obsession with a balance between what's in front of and behind the camera.”
News
Week in Review: US Denies Entry To Forensic Architecture Director; Six Cooper Hewitt Museum Trustees Resign
Also, for the first time since the Renaissance, Raphael's tapestries are reunited at the Sistine Chapel, artist Felicity Hammond denounces the Dutch art fair Unseen for not paying its artists, and more.
Art
A Rare Look at a Little-Known, Intrepid Woman Painter of Open Air Landscapes
Sarazin de Belmont was a rare talent: a self-funded artist and a woman who broke the courtly codes to travel unchaperoned for several years as she created open-air landscapes on the Italian peninsula and the French Pyrenees.
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Over 220 Artists and Cultural Workers Decry Over-Policing of NYC Subways in Open Letter
The letter, penned by advocates from the organizations the Black School and the Laundromat Project, condemns the recent vote to spend nearly $250 million on the deployment of 500 additional MTA officers in the city's subways.