Art
Six Art Shows to Visit in Philadelphia This Fall
Keep election-season woes at bay with masterworks of Black portraiture, musings on a Persian epic poem, Mickalene Thomas’s first international traveling solo show, and more.
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Film
It’s Time for a Queer Comedy Revolution
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution drives home who is worth paying attention to if you want comedy to lighten your load, and your fellow humans'.
Books
Challenging the Visual Story of Mass Incarceration
With The Warehouse, James Kilgore and Vic Liu counter the tendency to reduce people to stereotypes or mere statistics.
News
NYC AIDS Memorial Celebrates David Wojnarowicz's 70th Birthday
A remembrance event on Saturday night, September 14, will include readings and a candlelit procession to the LGBTQ Memorial at Hudson River Park.
News
Man Dies After Fall From Glasgow Museum Balcony
The Gallery of Modern Art was shuttered for the remainder of the day.
Books
18 Art Books to Read This Fall
Poems inspired by Hilma af Klint, a fictional account of Peggy Guggenheim’s life, and the first biography of Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine are among the titles we’re most excited about.
Art
Required Reading
This week: Hyperallergic visits a local radio station, a documentary on Sudanese resilience, bestseller lists are a lie, Christina Sharpe’s new essay, croissant Temu lamps, and more.
Film
Activists Interrupt Israeli Film Screening at Toronto Festival
Anti-Zionist protesters called out the film Bliss (Hemda), one of the centerpieces of TIFF this year, for its ties to the Israeli government.
News
Art Institute of Chicago Gets "Transformative" $75M Gift
Collectors Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed’s donation will fund a new building to house the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art.
Community
A View From the Easel
“As a photographer, a studio can be where I am: walking, traveling, struck by light, demanding that I take a snapshot.”
Books
How a Tarot Deck Led to a Revolution
What makes The Tarot of A. E. Waite and P. Colman Smith stand out is how much the book emphasizes the creative process and treats the cards like art.
Art
Ed Ruscha Reminds Us to Take Nothing at Face Value
A survey at LACMA takes us through six decades of the artist’s innovations in exploring the relationships between words, images, and materials.