News
Laser Imaging Reveals 60,000 Maya Structures Under Jungle Canopy
Researchers have made major new discoveries in Central America that suggest Maya settlements were more complex and expansive than previously known.
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Art
The Museum of Failure Lives Up to Its Name
The Museum of Failure presents over 100 flops, bombs, and fiascos of innovation, including cars and boats, food and drink, tech gadgets and sex toys.
Interview
Guantánamo Lawyer Discusses Detainees’ Rights to Their Art
Lawyers representing Guantánamo detainees say the detention center's art program is beneficial to everyone and should be reinstated.
Satire
Astrological Aesthetics: February 2018 Horoscopes
Every month, Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms.
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Join a Multidisciplinary MFA Program in Studio Art and Design at the University of Louisville
Students in the MFA program interact with Louisville's wider arts community by participating in the university's collaboration with local and regional museums and cultural institutions.
Art
Art World Largely Silent as Artforum and Landesman Continue to Fight Sexual Harassment-related Lawsuit
A few months after news broke about sexual harassment allegations against Knight Landesman at Artforum, some want to sweep the realities of the issue under the rug.
Comics
How to Prepare for a Studio Visit
Sometimes you have to make the most out of a messy situation.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Louvre's Nazi loot, gender imbalance in the art world, Linda Nochlin and the female gaze, Amazon's welfare scam, the future of Canadian art catalogues, and more.
Books
The Reluctant Surrealist
Guy R. Beining's poems appear disjunctive but are in fact carefully constructed in ways that call to mind André Breton, Luis Buñuel, and Paul Delvaux.
Art
Two More Women to Add to Modernism’s History
The absence of Mary Callery and Peter Miller (Henrietta Myers) from the history of the 1940s New York art scene does not reflect well upon the city’s museums or their curators.
Art
Thomas Nozkowski, a Master Improviser
It is possible to imagine an essay devoted solely to the myriad ways Nozkowski uses paint.
Art
Politicians and Other Monsters
The Phantom of the Opera meets Donald, Jared, and Vlad.