Books
Best of 2019: Our Top 25 Books
Here are our favorite books of 2019, brought to you by the writers and editors of Hyperallergic.
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News
Color-blind Museumgoers in Denver Can Now See Art in Full Color
This week, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver began its partnership with EnChroma glasses, which offers lenses engineered for people with color vision deficiency.
News
Week in Review: Climate Strike During Art Basel Miami Beach; Harvard Students Protest Sackler Museum
Also, a California church mounted a nativity scene that comments on US–Mexico border detentions, "classic blue" is Pantone's color of 2020, and more.
Art
Dalit Musicians Are Playing A New Tune
Through their music, artists like Ginni Mahi and The Casteless Collective have protested the ways Dalits have been maltreated and marginalized in Hindu culture, often called “untouchables.”
Art
Best of 2019: Our Top 20 United States Art Shows
Our favorite US shows of 2019, brought to you by the writers and editors of Hyperallergic.
In Brief
Purple Rain and She’s Gotta Have It Among 2019 Picks for National Film Registry
Since 1988, the National Film Registry has added an annual set of 25 films in order to “ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America's film heritage.”
Art
A Look Inside Centre Pompidou's Recent Partnership With Shanghai's West Bund Museum
With this collaboration, the French have a foothold in Shanghai and should focus less on disseminating “expertise” and more on opportunities to learn.
News
Farmworker Unions and LGBTQ Activists Clash Over Nude Portrait of Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata
At a Mexico City museum, farmworker unions demanded the painting of the Mexican Revolution leader be destroyed. Their protest escalated to a clash with LGBTQ activists, amounting to violence and use of homophobic slurs.
Announcement
Ebony G. Patterson, Jill Downen, Lavar Munroe, and Adrian Cox Earned MFAs From WashU. You Could, Too.
The Sam Fox School’s MFA in Visual Art program is a dynamic environment where emerging artists thrive. Join us. Apply by February 3, 2020.
News
Maurizio Cattelan's Banana Sold Three Editions Before It Was Eaten; Rijksmuseum Receives 24 Mapplethorpe Photos
Also, the top-grossing painting at Art Basel Miami Beach was a Marc Chagall sold by Hammer Galleries for over $2 million, and more.
Art
Abraham Cruzvillegas's Sculptures Echo the Precariousness of Place
Cruzvillegas’s forms embody the precariousness and hope, if not the danger, of contemporary notions of borders, and the forces at work that make them porous or impenetrable.
Film
The Directors Mixing Fact and Fiction at the Forefront of New Chilean Cinema
In a charged political moment, hybrid documentaries speak to Chilean identity and struggle better than any other form of filmmaking.