Podcast

Tapping into the Art World's Potential to Make Us Feel Empowered

Hyperallergic spoke with the founders of Art World Conference about the changing currents of the art community and their own visions for a more empowered art world.

In Brief

The Financing of Hudson Yards Is Worse Than Its Architecture

A Citylab report claims that Hudson Yards stole funds intended for low-income communities in Harlem by taking advantage of a controversial investor visa program that's supposed to benefit distressed urban areas.

Announcement

Parsons Fine Arts Presents the 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Beneath Them Was Forever is curated by Kathleen Forde. On view at the Westbeth Gallery in New York April 26–May 4, 2019.

Books

A Book of Necessary, Speculative Narratives for the Anonymous Black Women of History

Saidiya Hartman's new book of speculative fiction unearths the beauty in the wayward, the fiction in the facts, and the thriving existence in the face of a blanked out history.

Interview

Cultural Identity Seen Through the Politics of Thread

For her project, photographer Alia Ali communicated with textile artists who live in communities whose borders have been marked “by imprints of power and scars of destruction.”

Art

Required Reading

This week, unzipped architecture in Milano, photographer Lana H. Haroun speaks, white supremacy and Viking history, the Classics and Biblical Studies divide, and more.

Art

The Radical Proposition of Dan Robbins

Andy Warhol was fascinated by the concept that an image that could be reproduced in millions of versions, while Robbins fabricated this concept. Big difference.

Art

A Photographer of Forgotten Men

Lee Nye’s subjects were the predominantly blue-collar patrons of Eddie’s Club, where he worked as a bartender between the late 1960s and early ‘70s.

Art

Joanna Pousette-Dart’s Landscape

Pousette-Dart’s career is proof that the art world hardly ever embraces single-minded women in the middle of their careers, whereas with men it is different.

Art

Miriam Cahn’s Alluring, Angry Art

If some of Cahn’s images are unexpected or unsettling, it is because, quite simply, they are the expressions of a very self-aware woman’s unapologetic point of view.

Art

An Artist's Ephemeral Monuments

At first glance, Sue Yon Hwang's paper statues look like misplaced monoliths: totemic, ritualistic, and ancient.

Art

A Vision of Mass Media Compromised and Revised

A fan of chance and the lucky find, Robert Heinecken took every possible advantage of living in a media-saturated environment.