Art
The Bold and Innovative Aesthetics of Medieval Artists
Over 40 works dating from the 12th through the 16th century fill this compact, beautifully curated show.
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Opinion
It’s Time for Museums to Step Up for Queer and Trans People
Amid ceaseless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, art institutions have a responsibility to center and support their queer and trans staff and visitors.
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Martha Gorman Schultz, Influential Diné Weaver, Dies at 93
She was known for her mastery and evolution of several traditional patterns through her lifelong practice of weaving on the Navajo loom.
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Former Ringling Trustees Decry “Catastrophic” Proposal to Transfer Museum
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis wants to hand the institution over to the New College of Florida, which has recently undergone a significant right-wing transformation.
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Newly Released Footage Shows Theft of 18-Karat Golden Toilet
The $6.1 million artwork by Maurizio Cattelan was stolen from the Blenheim Palace in England in September 2019.
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Artists Say Goodbye to Joann as Craft Stores Shutter Permanently
After two bankruptcy filings, the beloved fabric and art supplies company was acquired by a retail liquidator that will cease all operations.
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Brooklyn Museum Workers Rally Against Layoffs Outside Benefit Dinner
The museum's unions are protesting the sweeping staff cuts that impacted 47 employees after the institution announced a $10M budget deficit.
Podcast
Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston’s Legacy
The artist sits down with Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian and critic John Yau to discuss his work, which brings together Guston’s notorious KKK figures with his own host of comic characters to confront white supremacy.
Opinion
Notes From a Post-DEI Art World
Even if DEI dies, arts organizations should still move toward the accessibility that has always been at the core of the effort. Here’s how.
Art
Gertrude Abercrombie’s American Surrealism
Feted as the “Queen of the Bohemians,” Abercrombie saw herself as a kind of jazz witch forging dream visions into a strange, eerie, and occult body of work.
Art
Benny Andrews Painted the Textures of Life
Collaged scraps of cloth or crumpled paper in Andrews’s portraits were a subversive and insistent means of encompassing his own non-White, non-urban roots.
News
Elizabeth Street Garden Sues NYC Amid Eviction Battle
A new lawsuit argues that the Manhattan sculpture garden is a unique artwork protected by the Visual Artists Rights Act.