Art
The Unearthed Wood Carvings of a Part-Time Gravedigger
Andrew Edlin Gallery is exhibiting the wood carvings of the late John Byam, a self-taught artist who transformed his daydreams into sculpture.
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Comics
6 Things to Do Instead of Fretting Over Your Newsfeed
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News
82% of Americans Don't Know Who Painted "Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Study Says
The divide between the art community and the American public is something people are constantly trying to figure out.
Books
A Startlingly Intimate Graphic Novella About the Black Plague
Julia Gfrörer expresses the fantastical and the medieval in the mundane.
News
As Trump Threatens the NEA, an Artist Compiles All the Projects It Funded Last Year
To illustrate the vitality of the National Endowment for the Arts, artist Tega Brain created a website that gathers all the projects the agency funded in 2016.
Art
A Comics Newspaper for the Women's Resistance
Dedicated mostly to female voices, the comics newspaper RESIST! was distributed for free at marches across the US on January 21.
Art
A Printmaker’s Nonsensical Designs for an Absurd World
Ryan Standfest’s diagrams are sometimes fraught with Dadaist logic. They are instructions for unstructured outcomes, answers to questions no one has asked.
Art
Dark Matter as a Metaphor for Arts Activism
Activists are like hidden forces operating in the dark, their effects unfolding behind the scenes.
News
Two White House Petitions to Save the NEA and NEH Aren't Registering Signatures
One petition shows only 44 signatures, the other 734. Based on social media sharing, neither seems to be accurate.
Announcement
Virginia MOCA's Winter/Spring 2017 Exhibitions
The exhibition suite explores the worlds of mental health, war, forgotten Virginia landscapes, and celebrates MOCA’s 22nd annual juried show of Virginia artists, New Waves 2017. On view through April 16, 2017.
Film
At MoMA, Restored Bruce Lee Masterpieces Leap Back onto the Big Screen
Eternal Bruce Lee will share the purest portrayal of Lee’s style by using the closest possible reproduction of the crisp, colorful, large images audiences saw in cinemas in the 1970s.
Poetry
One Poem by Marwa Helal
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Marwa Helal for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.