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Art World Dos and Don'ts for 2025
Hyperallergic editors round up the trends and habits we hope will be left behind in 2024 — and those we want to embrace more fully in the new year.
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10 Notable US Museum Acquisitions in 2024
From Cannupa Hanska Luger at the National Gallery of Art to Elizabeth Catlett at The Met, hundreds of works joined institutional collections across the country.
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Five Hyperallergic Podcast Episodes to Round Out 2024
Listen to conversations with feminist legends Lucy Lippard and Joyce Kozloff, the artist who was detained for 15 years at Guantánamo Bay without charges, and others.
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The Never-Ending Cycle of Fear and Desire
Gary Simmons’s art suggests that rather than make progress our culture more often makes elaborate circles over and over again on the ice until the music stops.
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Luigi Mangione Street and Protest Art Crops Up Around the World
A Seattle mural portraying the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter as the iconic Nintendo character is among many similar works in recent weeks.
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This Hanukkah, Let’s Bring Back Judith Menorahs
The legendary heroine was once widely recognized with fried ricotta pancakes during holiday celebrations. What’s responsible for her erasure?
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Mary Ann Peters’s Obscured Memorials to Buried Histories
More context could have resulted in greater connections between viewers and the tantalizing glimpses of profound and difficult human experiences in Peters’s art.
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Making Food Into an Art in Muslim-Majority Cultures
Focused on the SWANA region, "The Art of Dining" transforms meals into narrative experiences, showing how food connects people not only to their roots, but also to each another.
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The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2024 Edition
Our annual list recognizes and celebrates those in our community who are left in the shadows of the powerful.
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Hyperallergic’s 10 Hottest Social Media Videos of 2024
Millions watched our videos this year, which delved into the magical alchemy of Rembrandt’s paint, French tweens pulling pranks with highlighters, protests outside the Met Gala, and more.
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Ai Weiwei Knocks Down the Building Blocks of Empire
His toy-brick masterpieces are tributes to anyone terrorized and brutalized by the world’s great powers and their proxies.
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Holly Wright Challenges Our Sense of Vanity
At the Fralin Museum of Art, photographer Holly Wright reduces her poet laureate husband to a mouthpiece, and asks her subjects to think upon their own deaths.