News
Betty Woodman, Pathbreaking Ceramicist, Dies at 87
Though she trained as a craftsperson, Woodman quickly outgrew the conventions of craft and began making powerful, unclassifiable work.
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Art
A Landscape Made Up of Black Folks
Derrick Adams shows how the nature of an urban environment, like New York City, is found in its inhabitants.
Art
Turning a Clothesline into a Powerful Feminist Statement
Artist Mónica Mayer's multifaceted El Tendedero/The Clothesline Project uses a symbol of domesticity to generate dialogue and support taking ownership of feminist issues and experiences.
Art
A 200-Year-Old Dance Celebrates Anti-Colonial Resistance
The Wanaragua Association of Los Angeles will perform the masquerade dance that dates back to the mid-18th century, when the Garifuna repelled British colonizers.
Art
The Unsung Portraits of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
The show at the Frick Collection foregrounds the artist's inventive portraits, which are not as well known as his religious paintings.
Poetry
One Poem by Brandon Shimoda
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Brandon Shimoda for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
The Smallest Mollusk Museum Brings Science Education to Unexpected Places
The Smallest Mollusk Museum is the first project from MICRO, a New York-based nonprofit building six-foot-tall museums to share science education in public places.
Art
Zoom Through European Art History in An Endless Vortex of Paintings
A software engineer at Google used the computer vision program Deep Dream to create the mesmerizing, slightly dizzying video.
Books
The Dynamic Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s and '30s
Susan Pack's Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde celebrates the experimental film posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union.
Satire
Astrological Aesthetics: January 2018 Horoscopes
Every month, Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms.
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John Portman, the Architect Who Made Modernist Atriums Sci-fi, Dies at 93
With their enormous atria, elaborate fountains, and glass elevators, John Portman's hotels are straight out of a science fiction movie.
Art
From the Functional to Found, an Artist Couple’s Experiments in Clay
Whereas Virginia Rose Torrence embeds fruit rinds into her mosaics, Henry James Haver Crissman sells functional pottery.