Art

Questioning the Idea of Progress in an Exhibition on the Black Panthers

I’m looking at photographs of the Black Panthers: men in formation wearing black leather jackets, with buttons featuring Huey P. Newton’s image fixed to their lapels.

Art

In the Face of White Male Privilege Run Amok, a Plea for Artistic Responsibility

ST. LOUIS — What does accountability look like in a world where no one is accountable?

Art

A Sinking Cherry Grove Portends a Future of Rising Tides

With each foot of sea level rise, four lines of cherry trees at the Climate Chronograph die.

Comics

The Rhythm of Art

Lately, I've convinced myself that to make good art I need to get into a rhythm.

Art

Reveling in the Pleasure of Process and DIY Culture

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — "The work is the death mask of its conception," Walter Benjamin wrote about writing technique in his 1928 collection of essays One-Way Street.

Art

Harvard's Garden of Glass Flowers Blooms Again

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The historic collection of glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History recently reopened after its first comprehensive renovation.

Art

The 1940s Royal Academy President Who Considered Picasso “a Menace"

Sir Alfred Munnings, president of the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts in the 1940s, was famous for his masterful paintings of racehorses.

Art

An Artist Attempts to Resensitize Us to Images of Violence

BOSTON — In “Inextinguishable Fire,” a digital video by Cassils, the artist assumes the aspect of a martyr while being enveloped by flames.

Art

Join Hyperallergic for an Art-Filled Day Trip to Philadelphia on October 22

On Saturday, October 22, we're organizing an art-filled day trip from NYC to visit the ICA Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), and Fabric Workshop and Museum.

In Brief

A Leader of Attacks on Timbuktu Shrines Convicted of War Crime

In a historic decision today, the International Criminal Court convicted an individual who destroyed cultural heritage of committing a war crime.

Art

Crank That! A Dutch Museum Devoted to Musical Clocks and Self-Playing Instruments

UTRECHT, The Netherlands — Right off the city’s main commercial thoroughfare, where bicycles zoom past with a clinking sound, is one of the Netherlands’ most surprising treasures, the Museum Speelklok (or Museum of Musical Clocks).

Art

ArtRx LA

LOS ANGELES — This week, an exhibition opens on an overlooked Bay Area arts movement, a show in an abandoned hospital explores what it means to be human, Mexican artist Mónica Mayer lectures on feminist art, and more.