Interview
AIDS, Abstraction, and Absent Bodies: A Conversation with Mark Bradford
At first sight, Mark Bradford’s paintings attract viewers with their bright colors and often grand scale.
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Poetry
Two Poems by Emily Skillings
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected two poems by Emily Skillings for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
Utopian Mirror Ball Sculptures at Paris Climate Conference Are Full of Hot Air
PARIS — The balls of Aerocene hang high above Solutions COP21, floating over ecocidal disaster-mongers as they sleepwalk visitors towards a total surveillance state.
Art
A Taste of Four Decades on the Fringes of Animation
A lonely pink figure walking down a shadowy track amidst glowing neon shapes is a poignant moment in Brian Smee's "Sports" (2014). The scene also serves as an allegory for the genre of experimental animation.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Ukrainian militias flood the market with stolen paintings, a museum security guard is sacked for on-the-job vandalism, and a British art forger does it for love.
Art
ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, Union Station hosts a screening of classic LA film Killer of Sheep, Art + Practice opens a show of new work from assemblage art pioneer John Outterbridge, Charles Gaines sets political speeches to music at REDCAT, and more.
Opinion
In Light of the Newest One, a Brief History of Mona Lisa Theories
It seems the Mona Lisa will never fail to inspire research and lead to discoveries that, though questionable, will never fail to grab headlines and cause every Leonardo expert in the world to weigh in on the matter and inevitably butt heads with each other.
In Brief
13,800-Year-Old Engraving May Be First Depiction of a Man-Made Landscape
Seven crude semicircles scratched into the surface of an ancient stone slab may not make much of an impression on modern-day viewers.
In Brief
Museum Sues Wikimedia for Hosting Copyrighted Photos of Its Public-Domain Artworks
On October 28 the Reiss Engelhorn Museum (REM) in Mannheim, Germany, filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation for making high-resolution images of public domain artworks from its collection available for download.
Announcement
Call for Applications: Roman J. Witt Residency at University of Michigan's Stamps School of Art & Design
The University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is accepting proposals for the 2016-2017 Roman J. Witt Residency Program through January 15, 2016.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NzU3MjksImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjozMzYwNjksImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6e30sImNyIjoxMjUwMjI3LCJkbSI6NCwiZ
Art
On Staten Island, an Artist Floats New Ideas for Life Jackets
Surfing along New York Harbor on the Staten Island Ferry, a fairly tranquil experience were it not for the tourists snapchatting the Statue of Liberty, can still cause a bit of anxiety.
Art
The Female Body Concealed and Revealed with Minimal Marks
CHICAGO — In a show of works on paper at a new Chicago artist-run space, Cultivator, painter Anne Harris depicts the female body in a way that brings to mind writer Christine Alic’s phrase “the contested landscape of the female gaze.”