Art
Reading Walt Whitman’s Recently Discovered Novel
Last year, English scholar Zachary Turpin uncovered The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle, a fictional autobiography published and serialized in 1852 in a New York Sunday newspaper.
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An Artists’ Conversation on Immigration at the Museum of Latin American Art
On June 2, the museum in Long Beach is hosting a conversation focused specifically on artistic responses to immigration from Mexico and Latin America.
Art
Why Eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts Would Hurt Rural Americans the Most
The NEA, which the Trump administration has proposed to fully defund, has long been accused of primarily serving coastal elites, when in fact the opposite is true.
Art
The Swashbuckling Origins of One of America’s Greatest Tattooers
The show on Gus Wagner offers a rare look into the artist's life through his 150-page scrapbook, which has photographs, sketches, postcards, press clippings, and more.
Art
Death and Perseverance in the Lodz Ghetto, Captured by One of Its Inhabitants
An official photographer in the ghetto administration, Henryk Ross defied the laws of the Nazi regime by taking clandestine photographs of Jewish residents as they confronted poverty, squalor, debasement, and death.
Art
Artists, Aerialists, a Meteorologist, and More Collaborate on a Performance Mash-up
Happening on June 3, Norte Maar's Brooklyn Performance Combine will bring together an array of artists and participants for a two-hour collaborative marathon.
Art
Confronting Cambodian Sexism Through Portraiture
Neak Sophal’s newest series seeks to counter — or at least complicate — traditional depictions of women, as well as other sexist aspects of Cambodian culture.
Poetry
Two Poems by Ana Martins Marques
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Ana Martins Marques for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
On Memorial Day, an Artist Burns and Buries a Confederate Flag
At Detroit's N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, John Sims conducted a two-hour-long Confederate flag funeral.
In Brief
Trump Has a Coat of Arms, and It’s a Copy
The president plagiarized it from the family that built the Mar-a-Lago estate, changing only one detail in the process.
Art
A World Tour Through a Collection of Paper Architectural Models
The National Building Museum's recently acquired collection of 4,500 paper models shows an interpretation of the world in miniature, from black-and-white shtetls to nuclear power plants.
News
Facing Protests from Islamist Groups, Bangladesh Relocates a Statue of Lady Justice
A statue of Lady Justice in front of the Supreme Court in Bangladesh was removed last Friday and reinstalled two days later in a different spot, where no one can see it from the street.