Poetry
"FUTURISM" by Timothy Liu
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Timothy Liu for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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Art
Drawing Across Five Centuries
CHICAGO — In a 2004 address to London’s Royal Academy, critic Robert Hughes said that drawing “satisfies the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about.” An exhibition of drawings currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago exemp
News
East Harlem Committee Endorses Proposal to Tap 1% of Frieze NY Art Fair Revenue
At a meeting Tuesday night, the Economic Development, Culture & Tourism Committee of East Harlem's Community Board 11 (CB11) passed a resolution demanding that the Frieze Art Fair direct 1% of its revenues back to nonprofit organizations in the South Bronx and East Harlem.
Opinion
Notes from New Orleans: Prospect.3 Artists Announced
NEW ORLEANS — Judging from this week’s press events announcing the artistic and venue lineup for Prospect.3, it looks like things are indeed going to be shaken up considerably in New Orleans this fall.
Art
Interwoven Histories: Exploring Britain and Haiti
BRIGHTON, UK — If the thought of a white artist from Britain making work about race in Haiti causes your hackles to rise, please bear with us. What Leah Gordon has to say about history concerns us all.
Comics
My Picnic Table Art
Assembling a picnic table last weekend, I was thinking about all the art I was missing down in Frieze Art Week.
Art
Two Artists Are Building a Human Zoo in Norway
Tomorrow, to mark the 200th anniversary of Norway's constitution, two artists will open a human zoo in Oslo. "European Attraction Limited," as the project is called, is actually a re-creation of a racist human zoo that Norway hosted in 1914, when the country celebrated the centennial of its constitu
News
Lost and Found: Lynda Benglis's "The Wave"
NEW ORLEANS — When we last left “The Wave,” Lynda Benglis’s monumental bronze sculpture she created for the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans, it had just been rediscovered behind a disused sewer treatment plant in suburban Kenner, Louisiana.
News
Artist Collective Withdraws from Whitney Biennial
The Yams Collective, the largest of the eight collectives participating in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, has withdrawn over objections to the curatorial program, Hyperallergic has learned.
Art
Seeking Harmony at Storm King
This season in Mountainville, New York, two different artists are on view who aim for harmony with the meandering landscapes of Storm King Art Center.
Performance
Lesbian Noir with Hard-Boiled Wooden Puppets
LOS ANGELES — Last week, Automata mounted Concrete Folk Variations, a noir puppet play set in McCarthy-era Los Angeles that was written, directed, and designed by artist Susan Simpson.
Announcement
Life On Mars Gallery Presents Motherlove, an Evening of Art and Music
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