Art
Angela Dufresne Queers the Portraiture Tradition
The Brooklyn-based painter's intimate portraits of her mostly queer artist friends play with gender fluidity, sexual ambiguity, and a collaborative creative process.
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News
German Authorities Drop Investigation of Group that Replicated Holocaust Memorial Near Home of Rightwing Politician
After Björn Höcke called the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin “a monument of shame," an artist built a replica beside the politician's home.
Books
Contrariness and Subtle Humor from a 19th-Century Proto-Feminist Art Writer
A recently published volume of Vernon Lee's writing reveals a woman who is a product of privilege, as well as someone who used what it afforded her to resist the status quo.
Announcement
Christie's Education Announces Its 2019 Symposium, "Women Art Dealers (1940–1990)"
The Symposium analyzes the central role played by women art dealers in the creation and development of the art market, and will take place from May 17-18.
Art
A Celebration of LGBTQ Writing
The Lambda Literary Awards finalists will come together to read from their works next Tuesday at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.
Art
The Timely Dissent of a Vietnam War-Themed Show
Less than a mile from the White House, the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Artists Respond boldly surveys how artists wrestled with showing how their government had gone wrong.
Interview
Claire Denis on Black Holes, Olafur Eliasson, and the Making of High Life
"This movie is about things we know today about our own galaxy. It's not an unknown future. It's almost here."
Art
The Narrowing of Museum Imagination
This is the first article in a series by Laura Raicovich, the recipient of Hyperallergic’s inaugural Journalism Fellowship for Curators, made possible by Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. Today, she connects Anand Giridharadas’s latest book on philanthropy and late-capitalism with useful questions abo
News
The American Museum of Natural History Cancels Event Honoring Brazil's Far-Right President
After pushback from museum staff and prominent scientists, AMNH has decided "that the Museum is not the optimal location for the Brazilian-Am. Chamber of Commerce gala dinner," which is set to honor Jair Bolsonaro.
Art
Blueprints for Our Future Planet as It Moves Toward Extinction
Two artists wrestle with the intersections of technology and massive ecological shifts brought on by the Anthropocene.
In Brief
In a Satirical Segment About the Opioid Epidemic, John Oliver Calls Out the Sackler Family
“The Sacklers love putting their names on things. Although until very recently they have been miraculously good at keeping their name off the opioid crisis," Oliver quipped in the segment, making note of Nan Goldin's art world protests against the family.
In Brief
YouTube Flags Major Notre-Dame Fire as Misinformation, Links to 9/11 Article
The platform's new algorithm for probing "fake news" by adding context-specific information to videos seems to have glitched.