Art

Best of 2019: Our Top 15 Feature Films

Our favorite movies of 2019, brought to you by the writers and editors of Hyperallergic.

In Brief

For $111, You Can Enter a Charity Raffle to Win a $1M Picasso

A French charity is raffling a Picasso still life this coming January. The proceeds from the draw will go to providing clean water to communities in Cameroon, Madagascar, and Morocco.

In Brief

With Venice Recovery Underway, Here’s How You Can Help

Bloomberg says that a $500 donation to Save Venice will pay for a day of work for a professional conservator, while $1.1 million will single-handedly fund the restoration of one of the oldest basilicas in Venice.

Art

Hans Haacke’s Sharp Metaphors and Maps of Power

Exposing systems of injustice and how they operate is Haacke’s great skill. At the New Museum, the artist draws the connections, and we follow along, wondering what our role is in this circuit.

Announcement

Apply to MFA, MA, and PhD Programs in the Department of Art at Stony Brook University

To be considered for the highest levels of funding and support, applications must be received by January 15, 2020.

Film

Seeing How Experimental Documentary Film Can Get

The Paradocs program at the 2019 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam toys with the very structural components of cinema.

Art

Organizations Outside the Art World Are Better at Reaching Underserved Populations

Deferring to activists and public servants who have already effectively reached diverse populations may be among the most expedient ways to increase art’s accessibility.

Art

Required Reading

This week, Williamsburg goes BIG, Bette Midler's museum tweet, US politicians and food, how the British damaged the Parthenon marbles, the longest walk on earth, and more.

Books

Penelope Rosemont's Essays Expand the Surrealist Canon

Threaded through this collection is an optimistic belief in Surrealism as a world-changing political and poetic practice.

Art

Lucian Freud’s Shadow Self

As a displaced refugee, Freud knew he would always be something of a stranger to himself, but how much would he ever wish to know of himself?

Art

Seeing Ourselves in a Chimpanzee's Art

Seeing works by Congo the chimp takes us from wild aesthetic conjectures to sobering ethical dilemmas around animal agency, art ownership, and basic rights of living creatures.

Art

Meleko Mokgosi's Discursive Art

Mokgosi is as interested in the discourse around the figures in his paintings as in their representation — not that the two could ever exist separately.