Crosswords
The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: March 2025
The art world’s beginning to thaw, and we have clues to kick off spring — from Amy Sherald and Christine Sun Kim to Dutch masters and Luigi Mangione’s signature color.
Latest
Art
Trenton Doyle Hancock and Philip Guston Seek Out the Enemy Within
With generous, sharp humor, Hancock and Guston show us through their art how venial and self-deceiving we have become.
Art
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s Ballad of the Bomb
The US deployed the largest aerial bombardment in history during the Vietnam War. Here, the artist tells the plaintive story of those unexploded weapons.
Art
The Slouching Beast of Southern California
Alternately ominous and transcendent, Doug Aitken’s panoramic Lightscape cycles through scenes of human movement enthralled by highways and city streets.
News
Charlottesville Nonprofit Seeks Artists to Transform Melted Robert E. Lee Statue
The dismantlement of the infamous Confederate monument was at the center of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.
Opportunities
Opportunities in March 2025
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from Center for Craft, UT Austin, Bemis Center, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
Guide
What to See in Upstate New York This March
Michel Goldberg’s black and white dance of birth and death, ransome’s stoic and elegant portraits, Kipton Hinsdale’s near-berserk mark-making, and more.
Art
Alex Strada Says “No” to NIMBYs
The show argues that caring for unhoused and dispossessed people is not a task to be sloughed off to the “city,” but rather a responsibility each of us shoulders.
Art
A Collective Portrait of Black Los Angeles, Told Through Artist Ben Caldwell
This exhibition about the multihyphenate filmmaker is as much about the place he chose to call home and all the people who pepper it with color.
Art
What Does It Mean to “Collaborate” With Another Species?
The majority of the art in Mutual Aid: Art in Collaboration with Nature is still based on human manipulations of or interventions into natural processes.
Book Review
An American Artist’s Vignettes of Rural Italian Life
Despite the often stifling influence of critic John Ruskin, Francesca Alexander dedicated her art and life’s work to the people of Tuscany.
News
Stunning Frescoes of Dionysian Cult Rituals Unearthed in Pompeii
Spanning three walls of a recently excavated banquet hall, the murals shed light on ancient customs associated with the god of wine, festivities, and ecstasy.