Comics
What If We Treated Other Holidays Like Christmas?
From Arbor Day to Grandparents Day, most holidays just aren't compatible with Christmas-style hype.
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Art
19 Artists and Art Groups Light Up Houston’s Day for Night Festival
The Day for Night weekend in Houston is welcoming 19 artists and art groups from across the globe to install spectacular light-based work.
News
Artists Affiliated with Documenta Speak Out Against the Exhibition Becoming a “Commercial Enterprise”
Artists Hans Haacke, Sanja Ivekovic, Walid Raad, Annette Messager, and many other have been vocal about their objections to changes at the world's foremost art quinquennial.
Performance
The Brooklyn Ballet’s Nutcracker Raises the Barre on Diversity
A Nutcracker that keeps the wintertime magic of Tchaikovsky's opulent score, while speaking the language of Brooklyn.
In Brief
Guggenheim Announces Shortlist for 2018 Hugo Boss Prize
The artists being considered for one of the most prestigious and substantial prizes in contemporary art are “exploring urgent social issues, and providing new artistic vocabulary through which to examine personal and universal themes.”
Announcement
As Part of Peabody Essex Museum’s PlayTime Initiative, Writer Naomi Russo Looks at Monopoly as an Ideological Tool
Is it possible for the world’s playful introduction to capitalism to transmit a new set of values?
Film
In The Shape of Water, Small Acts of Rebellion Make a Splash
Guillermo del Toro's latest film, about a mute cleaning woman who liberates and falls in love with a humanoid amphibian monster, is intimate in scale but tells a potent story of empowerment.
Art
Tania Bruguera, Hank Willis Thomas, and Eric Gottesman on Making Art in Times of Turmoil
The final event in the Hirshhorn Museum's Ai Weiwei series will discuss the challenges and necessity of art making amid political turmoil.
News
National Endowment for the Humanities Gives $12.8M in Grants to 253 Projects
From environmental monitoring equipment for Frank Lloyd Wright homes to an overhaul of an online database of archaeological artifacts related to slavery, the grants span a huge range of projects.
Art
The History of a Major LA Trading Port Surfaces in a New Performance
A performance investigates San Pedro’s history as a major international sea port, and the effect that the North American Free Trade Agreement has had on LA's brown and queer communities.
Art
The Intimate Past and Uncertain Future of Soviet Concrete Architecture
The concrete apartment blocks of formerly communist Eastern Europe evoke both nostalgia and legacies of suffering; now their future is in question.
Poetry
One Poem by Peter Gizzi
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Peter Gizzi for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.