Poetry
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected four poems by Chanho Song translated from the Korean by Won-Chung Kim and Christopher Merrill for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
SANTA FE — There are many facets to our identities and how we construct and define ourselves; one of the most integral is language.
Art
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — On a warm day in June six years ago, the front doors of the Fogg Museum closed quietly. There was no banner reading “Closing Day” on Quincy Street at the edge of Harvard Yard, no ceremony, no press, no speech. At five o’clock, museum visitors shuffled out the exit in droves, totin
Art
Since the artist and critic Walter Robinson wrote his now-(in)famous post “Flipping and the Rise of Zombie Formalism” in Artspace this past April, there has been an outpouring of writers, bloggers, and Facebook comment jockeys who have opined on the subject.
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In Claude Debussy's 1910 prelude "La cathédrale engloutie" ("The Sunken Cathedral"), shuddering waves of chords grow and then drown out in tribute to a mythical cathedral rising out of the sea and then disappearing again. In Douglas Gordon's new "tears become… streams become…" installation at the Pa
Opinion
What significance does Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi have to people in the state of Michigan? Why do the netizens of Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Wisconsin love Faith Ringgold?
Art
From Rolling Stone to Shia LaBeouf, it's clear America still doesn't know how to talk about rape.
Art
Friendships confined solely to digital interaction are an increasingly common component of contemporary social life. These are precisely the types of relationships that performance artist Miao Jiaxin is looking to activate with his latest Airbnb-based project, "Blind Meeting in Bushwick — A Tribute
Art
This week, there's a rock doc on Riot Grrrl godmothers, a book signing for a new collection of work by street photographer Ed Templeton, the closing of Max Hooper Schneider's messy science experiments, and more!
In Brief
An intensive restoration of France's Chartres Cathedral that replicates the interior's original colors and patterns has earned a polemical rebuke from the critic Martin Filler, who charged that the method makes "authentic artifacts look fake."
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For the last four decades, artist Huguette Caland has largely languished in obscurity.
Art
BATH, UK — The small city of Bath has over time become a symbol of classic English gentility and, at first glance, the Holburne Museum conforms to the pattern. But there is a temporary exhibition on display at the moment of prints by the caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson that undermines that whole myth