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.
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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.
Art
A Chronicler of Philadelphia’s 20th-Century Black Life
Between the 1930s and '60s, John W. Mosley made photographs without any expectation that white people would see them. His intended audience was black.
Art
ArtRx NYC
A New Year's–themed edition, featuring the closing of a beloved bookstore, Coney Island festivities, parties, poetry, and more.
Art
An Artistic Storm Fills a Formerly Abandoned Water Reservoir
Magdalena Fernández's art installation is the first to fill the Buffalo Bayou Cistern, a formerly abandoned 1920s water reservoir in Houston, Texas.