News

Eric Adams Calls for Artists to Design “Chinatown Welcome Gateway”

Critics have questioned the city’s plan to work with art blocks away from the site of a future Manhattan jail.

News

Critic Renounces NYU Degrees After School Punishes Pro-Palestine Student

Aruna D'Souza said the university has given up its intellectual mission by penalizing pro-Palestinian dissent.

Art Review

David Hammons Gets at the Why? of It

His elegantly simple exhibition — just darkness and flashlights — prompts a rethinking of what we consider worthy art.

Feature

When The Subway Sun Ruled NYC’s Underground

With its signature two-toned design and illustrations, the mock newspaper encouraged polite passenger etiquette and promoted local attractions.

Community

Required Reading

This week: Joe Sacco on truth and art, the invention of “close reading,” a century of Mrs. Dalloway, Google gets a makeover, the biggest and smallest dogs meet, and much more.

Community

A View From the Easel

“There’s a Rauschenberg piece I like to sit with to reconnect with why I make art at all.”

News

What Do Visitors Think of Thomas J. Price’s Times Square Sculpture?

Hyperallergic set out to hear from people seeing the artwork onsite, and their thoughts were considerably different from the online discourse.

News

Why Did a Frank Lloyd Wright Lamp Sell for $7.5M?

The eyebrow-raising sale price for the 23-by-32-inch double-pedestal lamp might have something to do with the architect’s unique creative ethos.

Art Review

The Unexpected Beauty of Detritus

Through his art, Yuji Agematsu brings reverence and discipline to this job of living, and acknowledges each human’s durational condition.

Art Review

Dakota Mace’s Quiet Enactment of Diné Philosophy

The artist’s show at SITE Santa Fe shows how Indigenous thought and contemporary exhibition-making can co-exist without compromise.

Opinion

The Fabricated Crisis of Art Criticism

The genre is more alive than ever, so why are many eager to pronounce it dead?

News

Why Is For Freedoms Designing Art for a New Brooklyn Jail? [UPDATED]

The collective proposed a series of works for the controversial Borough-Based Jails project, which has received pushback from artists and organizers.