Art
An elegant black envelope arrived in my mailbox last week. Inside is a square, burgundy-colored folder containing a catalogue of 1950 and ’60s snapshots. On the cover, an off-white, hand-lettered logo reads “Casa Susanna.”
In Brief
Minneapolis won't be getting any new public art next year if the city's mayor gets her way.
Art
A more descriptive subtitle for Chris Ofili: Day and Night, the New Museum's dazzling survey of Chris Offili's paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, would be "Day and Night and Day."
Art
SAN FRANCISCO — Can the stories of queer soldiers being marginalized, brutalized, and disenfranchised in the United States be considered dreams, or would it be more appropriate to call them nightmares?
Poetry
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected an excerpt from a verse play by Joyelle McSweeney for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
In one region of Russia, the consistency of the earth is just right that manuscripts dating back centuries emerge almost perfectly preserved. Over the past year, more than 1,000 of these birch bark artifacts from the 11th to 14th centuries have been exhumed from the soil of Novgorod, adding to a gro
Performance
John Brown is so much more than historical matter or biographical trope in Moss's world; he is an ideological framework, able to produce a compelling, albeit densely layered, performance work.
Art
Last year, the City of New York released a huge trove of tax data to the public. Called Property Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), the information might not seem terribly thrilling, a dry assortment of building dates, square footage, and property value, but for those looking to map the city's history
Art
There's so much good stuff happening this week, it's almost hard to keep track. Among our picks are two intriguing performances by three up-and-coming LA artists, two shows devoted to 20th-century artist pioneers, and a discussion of art and political activism. And don't forget about Halloween — we
In Brief
"My process when I get ready to paint? I definitely gotta have a blunt, because the blunt is inspiration to the creation," so says Snoop Dogg during a new video paid for by a Swedish sock company that placed the rap legend in a studio equipped with your typical art-making paraphernalia.
Announcement
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News
Cultural workers in Turkey are set to go on hunger strike in protest of their unemployment and its endangerment of the country's vulnerable cultural resources.