Art
Focusing on Photo Portraits at New York’s Contemporary African Art Fair
Seventeen galleries from all over the world have convened to exhibit the work of pan-African artists and artists of the African diaspora.
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Art
A Monthlong Harlem Art Fair Pops Up in Public Spaces
The Flux Art Fair, which is only in its second year, has done something boldly innovative with the art fair format: created a scheme of public works placed throughout Harlem’s parks and boulevards.
Art
NADA New York Gets Nasty
NADA New York, the New Art Dealers Alliance's (NADA) hometown art fair, has a reputation for showing a certain type of clinical, vaguely cynical, and aggressively cool contemporary art.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: MoMA offered buyouts to members of staff, Rosemarie Trockel's $34 million art collection was destroyed by a fire at her home, and the Bodleian Libraries acquired a map of Middle Earth annotated by JRR Tolkien.
Performance
A 1944 Dalí Backdrop Gets Its Own Surreal Circus
The archives of the Metropolitan Opera can seem like some kind of pharaonic tomb, packed as they are with theatrical treasures.
News
You’re Hired! Trump Taps Steven Mnuchin, Son of Art Dealer, as Finance Chief
Yesterday, Donald Trump named his campaign finance chief: Steven Mnuchin, hedge-fund executive, controversial film financier, and son of art dealer Robert Mnuchin, whose Upper East Side gallery is currently showing a David Hammons retrospective.
Hyperallergic
Welcome Wendy Xu, Hyperallergic's New Poetry Editor, as Joe Pan Shifts to Fiction
Some exciting news on the literary front at Hyperallergic! Starting this July, the extraordinary Wendy Xu will be replacing me as poetry editor, while I take over the newly minted post of fiction editor here at the magazine.
Comics
The Moral High Ground
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Art
Refocusing on Marisol’s Ingenuity as a Sculptor and Draughtswoman
The generous obituaries written about Marisol Escobar in the last few days have reminded us of the important figure that she was.
Books
The Forgotten Artistic Playgrounds of the 20th Century
The Playground Project explores an era of artistic play.
Podcast
Introducing the Hyperallergic Podcast: The Marrakech Biennial Curates Decolonization
Today, we launch our first Hyperallergic Podcast, which will be a biweekly broadcast extending our mission to bring you playful, serious, and radical perspectives on art and culture in the world today.
Interview
An Oppositional Artist in Turkey on Censorship, Political Unrest, and “Terrorism”
ISTANBUL — Since winning the November 2015 elections, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his AKP party have taken extreme measures to silence anyone who raises their voice to criticize government policy.