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Sabri Sundos Faces Catastrophe With Flowers
“I am obsessed with autonomy and movement,” the Palestinian-American artist tells Hyperallergic in an interview.
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How Jimothy the Raccoon Became a Hero of the Misfits
The short-spined Seattle animal with an unfettered spirit has been honored in fan art, tattoos, and murals.
Art Review
SVA Grads Make Art out of History’s Rubble
The Art Practice MFA thesis exhibition rewrites what came before, pushing back against harmful systems and inventing better ways of living together.
Book Review
Helen Levitt Captured the Poetry of New York City
A new survey publication serves as a testament to the photographer’s belief that the city’s working-class communities of color possessed a beauty and drama all their own.
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The Art Institute of Chicago to Cut Its Entire Custodial Staff
The museum's union called the plan to outsource in-house custodial work to a third-party vendor a "devastating and unconscionable injustice."
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Hell and High Water
A memorial statue of Charlie Kirk might be coming to Times Square, Trevor Winkfield’s artificial worlds, and a beer with painter Keltie Ferris.
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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Is Free
The Cuban dissident artist is exiled to the US and a Homerist reviews Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”
Film Newsletter
A Homerist’s Review of “The Odyssey”
Historian Joel Christensen reacts to Christopher Nolan’s epic, artists speak candidly about AI, and a forthcoming film adaptation of the Louvre heist.
Film Review
A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”
“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”
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New Museum's Shiny New Building Leaks During Flash Floods
No artworks were harmed, but extreme weather shuttered the Lower Manhattan museum for a full weekend.
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Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Exiled to the US
The dissident artist arrived in Miami after serving five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana.
Art Review
The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me
The artist’s current series marks a shift in her practice, evoking the life span of a sunflower — from blooming to dying, from sharply defined forms to rivulets of dissolution.
Art Review
Trevor Winkfield’s Cheerfully Sinister Worlds
His rejection of certainty is an urgent reminder that imagination should not be neglected in the pursuit of art.
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Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Fatally Stabbing NYC Vogue Dancer
Dmitriy Popov killed the Black gay dancer O'Shae Sibley at a Brooklyn gas station in 2023 in a homophobic hate crime.
Opinion
Zendaya’s Earrings Are Part of a Much Bigger Problem
The 3,000-year-old Iranian discs turned red-carpet jewelry are emblematic of a market that has spent decades quietly dismantling ancient objects for parts.
Community
A View From the Easel
“One of my favorite museums is the street itself.”
Art Movements
Pat Oleszko Wins $100K Whitney Biennial Prize
The artist known for her irreverent inflatables gets the Bucksbaum Award; plus, there’s a new grant for artists living with cancer, Murmurs Gallery closes, and more news.
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Artist’s Planned Monument to Charlie Kirk Gets Trolled Online
“God gave me permission,” Sergio Furnari, the NYC sculptor behind the design, told Hyperallergic about his unsanctioned and widely decried work.
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Manhattan DA’s Office Returns Three Antiquities to Mexico
The office’s sixth repatriation to the nation included a Nayarit sculpture seized from The Met and an Aztec stone previously possessed by a convicted antiquities trafficker.
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Required Reading
This week: Chitra Ganesh’s futuristic myths, André Breton and optimism, the mermaids of Florida, a Palestinian digital archive, Argentina and racism, and more.
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Trump Shrinks Utah National Monuments by 90%
The administration’s cuts to the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments include sacred Indigenous lands and archaeologically rich sites.
Art Review
The Artists Working in Velvet, Amethyst, and Relics
An exhibition showcases works by Sky Hopinka, vanessa german, April Bey, and others that have connections to spiritual practices and rituals.
Film Review
Four Centuries Later, We Still Don't Get Caravaggio
A British docudrama serves as a salutary primer on the Baroque master’s greatest works, but we should be wary of what it tells us about the personality of its subject.
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Cape Town Gallery Accused of Withholding Pay and Artworks
An artist who left SMAC Gallery late last year took to social media with claims of delayed payments and missing works.