Art
Teresa Lanceta Weaves the Fraught History of Spain
The artist’s solo show is a lyrical investigation into the ways that textiles shaped the country during the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Interview
Benshi Performers Pass Along a Way of Thinking
Ichirō Kataoka and Kumiko Ōmori tell Hyperallergic about the modern-day conventions and challenges of the Japanese art of narrating silent films.
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German Museum Employee Fired After Secretly Hanging Up His Own Painting
Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne terminated the 51-year-old artist and called in the police to investigate.
Art
A New Art Weekend Touches Down in New Jersey
More than 100 venues across the state will take part in the inaugural Garden State Art Weekend.
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Is This Stingray-Shaped Rock the First Artwork Depicting an Animal?
A team of scientists theorize that a kite-shaped stone found on the coast of South Africa was intentionally shaped to resemble an endemic blue stingray species.
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It's Bye Boomers, Hello Millennials at This Year's Whitney Biennial
The 81st edition of the renowned exhibition is younger, more geographically diverse, and not so male anymore, Hyperallergic’s analysis shows.
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Will Richard Serra’s Forgotten Paris Sculpture Finally See the Light of Day?
When I broke the story about the whereabouts of “Clara-Clara,” I hoped that it would spur action by the City of Paris, which owns the work. It appears that it has.
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The Most Breathtaking Photographs of the 2024 Solar Eclipse
You didn’t need to be in the path of totality to be awed.
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Dinh Q. Lê, Who Tended the Wounds of Post-War Vietnam, Dies at 56
The artist wove together the irresolvable themes of identity, changeability, and memory both personal and historical.
Art
How Hindu Iconography Became an Extension of Right-Wing Nationalism
Ubiquitous imagery of aggressive, hypermasculine deities across India is a chilling tool of the Hindu right.
Art
How Korean Artists Captured and Resisted a Turbulent Political Era
Artists of the silheom misul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s wrestled with an increasingly globalizing, industrializing, and politically censorious Korean art world.
Film
The Art World and the American Hustle Meet in Problemista
Julio Torres’s directorial debut takes a fantastical approach to depicting the very real trials of immigration and creative work.