Art

An Artist's Fraught Portraits with Her Bodybuilder Father

In a series of photographs with her father, Polish artist Aneta Bartos pushes, teases, and challenges our notions of families, bodies, and sexuality.

Satire

Astrological Aesthetics: October 2017 Horoscopes

Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms.

Performance

Performance Matriarch Vaginal Davis Upends Fixed Notions of Genre and Gender

The punk icon kicked off the New Museum’s performance series last Thursday in conjunction with the just-opened show Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon.

Art

Newspaper Refuses To Give An Artist Credit For Her Work

In a write-up, a paper failed to mention Christine Baeumler's name, then doubled down, insisting that it was an omission, not an error. It's part of a larger pattern of writing women out of their own work.

Art

Art Lands on LA's Balconies, Porches, and Yards at the Terrain Biennial

The Terrain Biennial repurposes liminal domestic spaces such as porches, windows, and yards into public art sites.

Art

Magic Mushrooms in an Unmagical Show

Magic mushrooms can create a headspace where erudition and imagination become artistic affiliates, but in this show, the trickster disorientation of collage is the closest we get to that experience.

Art

Japanese Playgrounds at Night

Photographer Kito Fujio has spent the last three years traveling his country to capture its playful, surreal, and organic playground equipment.

Art

Photograms that Capture Darkness and the Flicker of Fireflies

Michael Flomen's first photographs were made with the light of fireflies, inspiring a series of work that converses with rain water, earth, and plant life.

Film

Mother! Is a Wild Ride, But Is It Also Strangely Feminist?

The film has elicited intense reactions with its super-saturated horror, but it also has a campy streak with feminist implications.

In Brief

X-Rays of Degas Sculptures Illuminate His Unconventional Process

Conservation scientists at the Fitzwilliam Museum shed some light on the everyday objects forming the armatures of three surviving beeswax sculptures.

Art

Step Inside a Lunar Eclipse

In Lunar Eclipse, an immersive installation and musical performance, a stylized rendering of the titular celestial phenomenon will be projected onto an inflatable dome.

Art

A Festival Fosters Exchange Between Artists from LA and Mexico City

This year the Los Angeles Exchange Festival is starting a tradition of artistic exchange with other cities, beginning with Mexico City.