News
Edmonton Unveils an Indigenous Sculpture Park on Ancestral Lands
Candice Hopkins curated the sculptures by six Canadian Indigenous artists in Edmonton's North Saskatchewan River Valley.
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Performance
A Fantasia of Queer Kink Channeled Through Dance
This experimental dance show has everything: astronauts, Furries, the national anthem, a pyramid of cocaine, Pope John Paul II.
Art
Detroit's Downtown Synagogue Puts Their Best Sukkah Forward
With Sukkot, the age-old Jewish celebration of life and bounty coinciding with this year’s Detroit Design Festival, the sukkahs on display in nearby Capitol Park are quite innovative and tasteful.
Art
A Drive-In Theater for Artist Films
The France Los Angeles Exchange has invited artists to screen their work alongside films by other artists with whom they find a resonance or kinship.
Art
Painter Rackstraw Downes’s Methodical Vision to Extract Poetry from the Mundane
As many artists develop visual ideas through fits of revision and reworking, the consistency in the evolution of paintings in Rackstraw Downes's current exhibition is remarkable.
Art
Compressing Time With David Wojnarowicz
“Time is now compressed and every painting I do... I make with the sense that it may be the last thing I do," Wojnarowicz wrote after his AIDS diagnosis in 1987.
Art
The Dazzling and Dooming Art of Cecilia Vicuña
The Chilean-born artist commemorates calamity while transfiguring its ruin into another tomorrow.
Interview
"Being Born Black in America Is a Political Act": An Interview With Senga Nengudi
In advance of her first retrospective outside the US, avant-garde artist Senga Nengudi discusses her emergence onto an international stage after a long career.
Poetry
Two Poems by Yumi Dineen Shiroma
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Yumi Dineen Shiroma for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
In Brief
Kenya Temporarily Lifts Ban on Film for Portraying Queer Romance
The director of Rafiki, Wanuri Kahiu, sued the Kenyan government to lift a national censorship that rendered the film ineligible for the Academy Award's Best Foreign Language Film accolade.
News
Researcher Discovers the True Identity of Courbet's "Origin of the World" Model
Experts are now "99 percent" certain that the genitalia featured in Courbet's painting belongs to the ballet dancer Constance Quéniaux.
Art
Hundreds of Artists to Take Part in This Weekend’s Bushwick Open Studios
This weekend, Bushwick Open Studios brings a three-day, "open to all" arts festival to Brooklyn.