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Hyperallergic’s 20 Most Read Stories of 2024
From our coverage of the Paris Olympics to the US presidential election, this year has generated plenty of fodder for art discourse, memes, and more.
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Art
Top 10 Archaeology Stories of 2024
From nationalist ancient bread and unearthed cities to protecting cultural heritage, archaeologists brought a wealth of stories to light in what has been a dark year.
Film
The Return Is a Shabby CliffsNotes Version of the Odyssey
Homer’s Odysseus is complicated and playful — a man who has suffered, and is changed. Pasolini’s Odysseus squints, and occasionally flexes.
News
Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” Added to National Register of Historic Places
The 1,500-foot-long sculpture on the shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah is considered one of the most important works of the Land Art movement.
Art
Top 50 Exhibitions Around the World in 2024
From lesser-known artists to big names, our staff and contributors compiled our favorite shows around the globe in a year of exceptional art.
Opinion
The Canonization of St. Luigi
The authorities inadvertently transformed a perp walk photo of the accused killer of a healthcare CEO into a Renaissance painting of the arrest of Christ.
Art
Sketching the Ubiquitous Face of Luigi Mangione
“I was so disappointed that they had changed him out of his orange jumpsuit,” said courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg.
News
Zilia Sánchez, Artist of Sensual Abstractions, Dies at 98
Her sculptural canvases or "erotic topologies” evoked the sinuous rhythms of the natural world and their echoes in the female body.
Art
Artists Find Energy Justice in Grassroots Acts
Energies at the Swiss Institute brings an archival and contemporary lens to questions of energy justice through a sharply curated artist cohort.
Book Review
Why Don’t We Talk About Race in Fairy Tales?
Characters in fairy tales “are white not by chance, but by design,” Kimberly J. Lau writes in a new book.
News
Mail Art Pioneer Anna Banana Dies at 84
The artist’s playful adoption of the banana motif transformed an everyday object into a vehicle for social interaction and anti-market exchange.
Art
Required Reading
This week: Dalit art and appropriation, Gisèle Pelicot and dignity for survivors, a Dakota recipe for holiday meals, the truth about Santa, and more.