News
Smithsonian American Art Museum Acquires Nearly 100 Works by Self-Taught Artists
The Margaret Z. Robson Collection is the institution's largest acquisition of its kind in two decades.
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Art
Re-performing the Histories of African American Public Figures
In Written in Smoke and Fire, Edgar Arceneaux reappropriates blackface and examines the legacy of a quasi-sacral figure in national history, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Art
How Zoning Laws Shaped New York City Over the Last Century
The Museum of the City of New York explores how a century of zoning code in New York City has influenced the built environment of today.
Announcement
Otis College Announces Lineup for First LA Summer Residency
Reviewers and mentors include: Connie Butler, Chief Curator, Hammer Museum; Meg Cranston, artist and Chair of Fine Arts, Otis College; Sam Durant, artist; Jo Lauria, author and curator, LACMA; Jennifer Steinkampe, artist; and others.
Interview
The Linguistic Overlap of Color Theory and Racism
Tomashi Jackson found that the language Josef Albers used to describe color perception mirrored the language of racialized segregation.
Art
A Cuban-American Artist’s Scathing Yet Loving Views of His Homeland
Luis Cruz Azaceta, an artist who fled Cuba at age 18, shortly after Fidel Castro came to power, is a fitting inaugural exhibition for Miami's new American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora.
Poetry
One Poem by Cynthia Manick
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Cynthia Manick for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
500 Hundred Years of Failed Utopias
USC Libraries considers what utopia means today, 500 years after Sir Thomas More coined the term for his idealized fictional island.
News
The Raw Expression of a Rare, Emaciated Buddha
A number of rare sculptures illustrate how starved Buddha would have been after fasting for seven weeks. One of them is being seen publicly for the first time this week ahead of auction.
News
As Artist’s Murder Trial Drags On, Display of His Work Sparks Uproar
A work by the South African photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa, who is still on trial for the 2013 murder of a sex worker in Cape Town, was included in an exhibition intended to empower women.
In Brief
A Collector’s Portfolio Turns Up an Unknown Leonardo da Vinci Sketch
The drawing stood out to a curator at a Paris auction house, who, after consulting other experts, determined that it is indeed a work by the hand of the Renaissance artist.
Art
ArtRx LA
This week, art and music duo Lucky Dragons present the results of their current residency, experimental music collective LAFMS released a box set, artists report back on their visit to Standing Rock, and more.