Podcast
Hyperallergic Podcast: Tania Bruguera, Mariam Ghani, Queens International
In our second episode we focus on New York's borough of Queens, which is becoming a growing hub of artistic activity in the city.
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Art
Whimsical, Art Deco–Inspired Window Designs
CHICAGO — Confessions of an arts writer: my background is in theater design.
Art
The Unusual History of Cosmism and the Future of Pavel Pepperstein
MOSCOW — There’s no hopelessness in Pavel Pepperstein’s work, no abandonment; there’s only laughter: the final laughter of those who have very little to protect them from the world.
Books
"Japan's View of Pussy Is Really Weird": Vagina Kayak Artist Releases Manga Memoir
For the past two years, we've been following the strange saga of criminalized Japanese "vagina artist" Megumi Igarishi.
Art
The Fluid Experimentation of László Moholy-Nagy in a Long-Awaited Retrospective
Decked out in red factory overalls, László Moholy-Nagy cut a striking figure of an avant-garde utopian during his time teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1923 to 1928.
Art
Young Khmer Artists Try the Tricky Business of Mapmaking
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The mapping and the drawing borders has been an especially violent and contested activity here for centuries.
News
UNESCO Report Details How Climate Change Threatens World Heritage Sites
The Statue of Liberty is a favorite victim of Hollywood's climate change disaster scenarios.
Comics
A Few Disturbing Things I've Encountered in Art
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Art
The Beauty That Will Not Save the World in Contemporary Russian Art
MOSCOW — If you were to go only by the types of exhibitions you see in Moscow galleries, you would get only a partial view of what’s happening in art in Russia.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, 72 new emojis, being photographed by Mapplethorpe, Dublin's artist studio problems, empathy vs exploitation, Warhol on Trump, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Butterfly
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days — three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
Books
Reader’s Diary: ‘Women of Abstract Expressionism’
We think the canon of American art of the 1940s and ‘50s is set in stone, but we’ve got a lot of looking still to do.