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.
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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.
News
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.
In Brief
Utah Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Postcards of Nude Paintings in Art Class
Apparently some parents think paintings by Ingres, Modigliani, and Boucher are "pornography."
Art
The West African Roots of a Masquerade Garment in Brazil
A priest of Ifá divination and an art historian discuss the masquerades of Yoruba religion and how they evolved in the Americas.
Books
Andy Warhol's Whimsical Drawings Before He Went Pop
A new book collects Warhol's early hand-drawn illustrations and accompanying texts, reproduced faithfully and filled with wit and whimsy.