Poetry
"Glove Compartment" by John Ashbery
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a new poem by John Ashbery for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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News
California Governor's Proposed Budget Would Halve Arts Funding
After a landmark year in California's state funding for the arts that saw support for the California Arts Council's boosted by $5 million, Governor Jerry Brown's proposed state budget for 2015–16 allocates just $1.1 million to the organization.
Comics
The Art of Eating Horse
Last week, heading up to Montreal with friends who run our favorite restaurant here in the Catskills, I effectively handed over my stomach.
Performance
From Glitch Parties to Participatory Skipping, a Delirious Dance
"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!" chants the beaming cast of Faye Driscoll's Thank You for Coming: Attendance as if greeting party guests.
Books
An Out-of-Focus Look at Post-Photography
Tacking "post" onto a word is one of those art world tricks that's routinely wielded to great rhetorical effect, but has little denotative meaning. In much the same way, Robert Shore’s book featuring the term, Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera, jumps off the shelves with its punchy title bu
News
Art Spiegelman Criticizes US Press for Not Publishing ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Cartoons
In an interview published by the AFP on Sunday, the American comic artist Art Spiegelman lambasted the US press for not republishing the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's cartoons.
Art
Art Bot Buys Drugs, Tests the Bounds of Consciousness
What becomes of identity and interpersonal communication on the dark web, where anonymity is paramount?
Art
Gillian Wearing's Masked Confessions
LOS ANGELES — In Gillian Wearing’s work, the artist serves as a conduit for other peoples' confessions while concealing her own subjectivity. In this exhibition, everyone becomes a stranger — both the visitors to the gallery and the people involved in making the work.
Announcement
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Performance
Hymns for a Poisoned World at the Prototype Festival
The third season of the Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now festival opened ominously last week, with 31 young women dressed in black singing against the evil that can come with group control.
Interview
Olafur Eliasson on Turning Light into Color
For the past six years, the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has been working with a color chemist to produce paint pigments that correspond to each nanometer of the visible light spectrum.
In Brief
As It Prepares to Relocate, Whitney Museum Expands Online Database from 700 to 21,000 Works
Projects like “Exhibition on the Screen” wed the democratization of art with the preservation of its sense of immediacy — and allow those who cannot afford to travel to cities like New York or London, much less live in them, to share in the arts.