News
Fire Engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
Flames have engulfed and collapsed the historic church's spire and ceiling. A church spokesperson told press, "Everything is burning, nothing will remain from the frame."
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In Brief
Rent One of Claude Monet's French Homes on Airbnb
A three-bedroom and three-bathroom home once owned by Impressionist painter is available for $226 per night.
Opinion
Why I Will Not Go to This Year's Havana Biennial
I am not going to the 13th Havana Biennial because my struggle to achieve freedom of expression in Cuba, my defense of cultural rights, and my efforts to end political hatred among Cubans and defend the right to demonstrate in the streets are not limited to an event. It is my life mission.
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.