Poetry
An Excerpt from Jennifer Firestone's Gates & Fields
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected an excerpt from Jennifer Firestone's Gates & Fields for her bimonthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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Art
A Trove of Early Japanese Animated Films Is Now Online
To celebrate the centennial of Japanese animation, the National Film Center of Japan recently uploaded over 60 films made between 1917 and 1941.
Art
Astrological Aesthetics: April 2017 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
Art
In LA, 50 Artists Respond to the Black Panthers’ Legacy
Iconic: Black Panther, opening this Saturday at the Gregorio Escalante Gallery, illustrates how influential the Black Panthers were, not just politically and socially, but artistically as well.
Art
At BRIC, a Video Collage of More Than 100 Personal Accounts of Poverty
Natalie Bookchin's video Long Story Short about poverty in Los Angeles and the Bay Area screens this Wednesday at the BRIC House.
Art
The Lost Art of Library Card Catalogues
The art of writing card catalogue entries may be dying, but they still tell us a lot about our data past.
Announcement
VCFA to Host "Protest Art / Art of Protest Assembly" in August
How do works of art become acts of political discourse? How might artists be at the center of viable, enduring, meaningful resistance and dialogue within their communities?
Art
Photographs Made with the Ocean Capture Its Swirling Rhythms
Despite these works’ affinity with painting, Meghann Riepenhoff shares her method with some of the earliest technical photographs ever made.
Art
The Digital Decline of David Hockney
The epic heights he reached in the 1960s are apparently so magnificent that they have given him a free pass ever since.
Books
100 Years of People Knitting
A book published by Princeton Architectural Press gathers vintage photographs of people knitting, from Sojourner Truth to unidentified nudists.
Art
A Buenos Aires Museum Creates a New Lexicon for Latin American Art
The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires has reorganized its permanent collection, assigning a new context for 20th-century Latin American art and its movements.
Art
Documenting Signs of Life Around an Israeli Detention Facility
An exhibition at the Israel Museum brings together the photographs and videos that Ron Amir made over three years in the desert surrounding the Holot Detention Facility.