Art
Carmen Winant’s Radical Images of Women Giving Birth
In “My Birth,” Carmen Winant directly addresses our general discomfort with the physical aspect of childbirth, forcing viewers to look directly at it, the universal starting point.
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Interview
A Brooklyn Gallery That Opposes Gentrification Is Forced to Relocate
HOUSING, whose mission is to support artists of color, will relocate from Bed-Stuy to an as-yet undetermined location in the fall.
Art
A Floating Glass Art Studio’s Four-Month Journey Around New York State
The Corning Museum of Glass's GlassBarge is traveling the New York waterways from Brooklyn to the Finger Lakes, offering free demonstrations of glassblowing.
News
Over 400 Lichtensteins Go to the Whitney Museum and an Early van Gogh Sells for $8.3M
Plus the fossil of a 150 million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur fetches $2.4 million at auction.
Announcement
“Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts,” Christie’s Education’s 2018 Conference
Over the course of sixteen sessions, Christie's Education will explore women’s diverse contributions to the arts. The conference will be held in New York from June 26-27.
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.
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.