Art
Six Strategies for Dealing with Controversial Monuments and Memorials
Communities across the nation (and even the world) have generally used the following options in dealing with contentious public monuments and memorials.
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Books
Disquieting Landscapes from Surveillance Cameras Around the World
After pulling landscape footage from CCTV feeds around the world, Marcus DeSieno employed a 19th-century photography technique to create his eerie images.
Art
The Bold Yet Too-Brief Art Career of T.C. Cannon
Cannon, who died when he was just 31, made enduring and vibrant works melding Native American and more mainstream artistic and pop culture imagery.
Art
How Jef Geys's Conceptual Enigmas Speak to Life
One gets the impression that Geys, as much as any artist ever managed to, achieved an integration of art and life.
Interview
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu Talks Social Justice, Confederate Statues, and the Way Forward
Last week, Hyperallergic sat down with former mayor Mitch Landrieu to talk about the lessons he had learned in the process of removing Confederate monuments from New Orleans.
Opinion
The Supreme Court's Take on Cakes Is Nothing But Empty Calories for Creative Industries
How the court managed to craft an opinion for a divided country.
Film
Four Artists on How Motherhood Impacted Their Lives and Careers
A KCET documentary looks at artists who have made motherhood a part of their careers, even as they have navigated the difficulties of the art world.
Art
Check Out Artists’ Studios in South Brooklyn, from Red Hook to Bay Ridge
Nine spaces will be open for this weekend's South Brooklyn Open Studios event.
Books
In a Comic, Weegee Is a Fiend for Fresh Crime Scenes and Fame
Weegee: Serial Photographer dramatizes the life and work of Arthur Fellig, the prolific and unscrupulous photographer whose work once covered the pages of New York City newspapers.
Announcement
The Morgan Library & Museum Presents the First Survey of Wayne Thiebaud’s Drawings
Featuring subjects that range from deli counters and solitary figures to dramatic views of San Francisco’s plunging streets, Thiebaud’s drawings endow the most common objects and everyday scenes with a sense of poetry and nostalgia.
Art
An Art Rock Band Performs with Marionettes in the Nation’s Oldest Puppet Theater
Marnie Weber's art rock band F will perform at the theater before it closes for construction.
Books
Retracing the Steps of a Pioneering Seed Collector Who Starved in a Stalinist Prison
Mario Del Curto photographed the Saint Petersburg seed bank founded by Nikolai Vavilov, and the scientists who carry on his legacy of protecting plant diversity.