Comics
Serve It
2017 requires some change.
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An Artist Gives Us a Vision of the Future Through Books
Samuel Levi Jones uses books to raise questions about how history is remade and repurposed for the present and future.
Art
The Vivid Violence and Divine Healing of Ex-Voto Paintings
The ex-voto painting is a Catholic folk art tradition depicting individual misfortunes that were mollified by divine intervention.
Announcement
Currents Pull Artists 'Due South' to Sicily
Thirty-eight international artists cross boundaries to reveal insider and outsider perspectives on Sicily, January 28-April 30, 2017 at The Delaware Contemporary.
Art
The Smithsonian’s African American Museum Tells the Myriad Stories of Black Heroism
Being among such a dizzying selection of uplifting stories, you cannot avoid the conclusion that America would not be what it is without all the people represented here.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Facebook blocked a photo of a statue of Neptune for being "sexually explicit," the Louvre's attendance dropped following terrorist attacks in Paris, and a long-lost self-portrait by a female painter of the Dutch Golden Age was found.
Hyperallergic
Merry Armenian Christmas
It may be a new year, but the holiday season continues and we're celebrating today.
Art
Visions of Pulsing Milk and Toothy Corn
The centerpiece of Monica Cook's new exhibition at Postmasters Gallery is the stop-motion video "Milk Tooth," which brings to life a vivid and dystopian alternate world.
Art
An Ode to Detroit's People Mover, a Looping Public Transit Joke
A book edited by Nick Tobier gathers contributions by 15 artists and writers reflecting on one of Detroit’s longest-running inside jokes: the People Mover.
Podcast
Egyptian Surrealism and the Quest to Define Modern Art in Egypt
Hyperallergic travels to Cairo to see one among a new wave of exhibitions that are reintroducing Egyptian modern art to a wider audience.
Art
32 Artists Consider the Privileges and Burdens of American Citizenship
A group exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery in East Hollywood critically questions the infrastructure of democracy.
Art
The Beauty of a Museum Show that Feels Not Quite Finished
Kai Althoff’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, and artifacts at the Museum of Modern Art provide questions rather than answers.