Art

Doug Aitken's Masterful Videos and Boring Sculptures

'Electric Earth' illustrates the difficulty of a sweeping retrospective by smashing excellent video work up against shallow sculpture.

Art

The Ghost Ship Fire and the Paradox of a "Creative City"

We can read into this tragedy the disastrous head-on collision of two conflicting obligations that the "creative city" imposes on itself and its residents.

Art

The Suggestive Compositions of a Mediocre Caravaggist

The Metropolitan Museum's Valentin de Boulogne show clarifies why this French follower of Caravaggio remains lesser-known, despite the leering details in many of his paintings.

Poetry

One Poem by Danez Smith

Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Danez Smith for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.

Art

Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows

This list barely scratches the surface of the city's artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.

Art

The Snapshots of a Globe-trotting Geographer Before Globalization

The UC Berkeley Department of Geography joined Flickr Commons and shared transfixing photographs from a world-traveling scientist.

Art

Oskar Schlemmer's Prophetic, Dancing Robots

An exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights the German artist's paintings, drawings, choreography, and costume designs that imagine the integration of humans and machines.

Interview

Conjuring an Afrofuturist Classroom with Paint and Chalk

Nyame Brown has transformed the Museum of the African Diaspora into the time machine that a museum should be.

Art

When Two Drunk Artists Fought in the 18th Century

What could be more absurd than two artists fighting over the personification of temperance?

Art

ArtRx LA

This week, a campy throwback film screens at Cinefamily, the first Los Angeles retrospective of work by painter Maria Lassnig closes, a dancer performs a blessing for the new year, and more.

Comics

That Nebulous Time of Year

Now that one holiday is done, we're in the stretch til the new year.

Art

3D-Printing an Army of Forgotten Goddesses to Fight Colonialism

Morehshin Allahyari is developing a series of a dozen 3D-printed statues based on ancient images of forgotten, proto-feminist deities.