Art

The Music Must Go On

I don’t think it is hard to understand why Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s pencil drawings depict dejected, often isolated figures from a domain that is simultaneously fairy tale, horror story, and dream.

Art

Beer with a Painter: Bill Scott

Last summer, Bill Scott and I were invited to participate in final critiques at the Mount Gretna School of Art. Critiques are usually predictable affairs, but I was surprised by Scott’s interactions with the students.

Art

Campers, Sunsets, and Junkyards: Sarah Braman’s Containers of Light

I'd call Sarah Braman's show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash a breakthrough were it not for her slow and steady ascent.

Art

Elise Ansel’s Ab-Ex Annunciation

The stated goal of New York City-born, Portland, Maine-based painter Elise Ansel is “re-creating, re-visioning, and re-presenting” paintings from the past.

Art

Dissections of Desire: Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s ‘Rosebud’

Chase, who is black and queer, shows the power of his subjects by exposing just how vulnerable they are.

Art

Fearless Symmetries: Judith Braun’s Carbon-Based Art Forms

The unclassifiable drawings of Judith Braun are now on view in two concurrent, very different solo exhibitions.

News

Art Movements

This week in art news: the Panama Papers revealed the owner of a disputed Modigliani painting, German and Swiss museums planned a joint show of art from the Cornelius Gurlitt trove, and 2,000 fans of a Scottish soccer club received giant foam thumbs designed by David Shrigley.

News

Cairo's Townhouse Gallery Partially Collapses

The façade of the historic building building at 10 Nabrawy Street in downtown Cairo that houses part of the revered Townhouse Gallery collapsed on Wednesday morning.

In Brief

Russian Museum Makes Good on Its April Fools’ Joke and Hires a Cat

The newest employee of Serpukhov's Museum of History and Art in Russia will receive his salary in the form of fish and patties.

Art

Astrological Aesthetics: April 2016 Horoscopes

Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.

Performance

Six Characters in Search of a Puppetmaster

Luigi Pirandello's iconic play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) is being reimagined at La MaMa this month.

News

European Art Award Canceled After Two Nominees Withdraw [UPDATED]

Organizers of the Vincent Van Gogh Biennial Award — known as the Vincent Award — have cancelled this year's edition of the contemporary art prize, presented biennially since 2000 to a mid-career artist who lives and/or works in Europe.