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Drawing with Family During the Holidays
Sometimes kids know more about art than adults do.
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Happy New Year from Hyperallergic!
Goodbye, 2017, and good riddance. We hope that 2018 is your best year yet.
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Required Reading
This week, New Andean Architecture, decoding an Inca communication system, women at the Uffizi, "queer" as refusal, some 'best of' lists, and more.
Music
Anatomy of a Christmas Song
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and kitsch is in the air.
Art
Two Artists Document the Rise and Fall of Pittsburgh's Steel Industry
Sandra Gould Ford and LaToya Ruby Frazier reveal a side of the city that is rarely seen by outside observers or even many of its contemporary, white-collar locals.
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12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017
Each of these exhibitions showed me something I had not seen before.
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The Jester Who Thinks He’s King
We have a president who is a joker, a jester, a racist, a sexist, a sociopath and perhaps a psychopath.
Art
Skipping Across the Decades with Mark Dagley
Dagley's new exhibition at Spencer Brownstone is a case study in sustaining a varied, disciplined investigation of painting as structure and object-making.
Books
An Illuminating History of Modern Graphic Design
The Brooklyn-based publishing company, Standards Manual, has produced a series of meticulously crafted facsimiles of design manuals, from the New York City Subway to NASA.
Art
The Pursuit of Art, 2017
A year of truth-telling and electric painting.
In Brief
Milo Yiannopoulos's Inane Thoughts on Art Slashed in Heavily Edited Book Draft
A first draft of the far-right pundit's unpublished manuscript recently emerged in legal documents, and his editor's dismissive comments are delightful.
Art
10 Countries Where Art Was Censored in 2017
From a show of queer art shut down in Brazil to a painting removed from an art fair in the United Arab Emirates, cultural censorship was rampant this year.