Art
A Watery World Turned Upside Down
Tom Burckhardt’s “STUDIO FLOOD” is a tour de force artwork with a willfully scruffy, DIY look.
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Music
LCD Soundsystem Looks in the Mirror, Again
LCD Soundsystem's American Dream is a passably punkoid rock album, fiery in places, elsewhere clunky.
Performance
A Dance Crosses Borders, from the Congo to the Stars
Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula and American writer and director Annie Dorsen contemplate storytelling at the Crossing the Line Festival.
Art
The Unknowable Ray Johnson
When Ray Johnson killed himself at the age of 67, the air of mystery surrounding his personality, life, and art only thickened.
Art
Brenda Goodman Cuts Deep
Goodman’s recent work is distressing, captivating, and weirdly funny.
Interview
Reflecting on a Family Tragedy, an Artist Looks at Aleppo
An interview with artist Christine Gedeon about her current exhibition explores her personal history in Aleppo and a particularly painful family story.
Art
Explore Art in Philadelphia with Hyperallergic on Saturday, October 14
We’re taking a day trip from NYC to PHL to visit the ICA Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), and Fabric Workshop and Museum. Join us!
Announcement
The SCAD Museum of Art Celebrates the Legacy of Jacob Lawrence
SCAD commemorates the centennial of the artist’s birth with a landmark group exhibition, on view through February 4, 2018.
Art
Imagining the Uncanny Life of a Sculptor’s “Awkward Creatures”
R.M. Fischer's lamp sculptures are like an uncanny assembly of anthropomorphic creatures that might abruptly move on their own.
News
Experts Believe Leonardo Sketched the Mona Lisa Nude
Analysis of a drawing long attributed to Leonardo's studio suggests the artist worked on at least part of it, and that it may have been a preparatory sketch for the Mona Lisa.
Opinion
The Village of Whitesboro’s New Seal Is Still Racist
The new seal suggests that the village of Whitesboro may be aptly named.
Art
You're a Medici. Can You Support the Renaissance's Best Artists, or Will You Be Exiled?
ARTé: Mecenas from Triseum is a game on the economies of art, set in the tumultuous Italian Renaissance, in which you are a Medici patron.