Art
The piece began with two naked artists covered in photographs of the female body, behind which hid coils of fishing line pierced into the skin. This was “Balancing on the Edge/Age,” a work addressing societal views of menopause and old age by Mexican artist Rocio Boliver, also known as La Congeleda
Art
Americans participating in the 1913 Armory Show were engaging with Modernism in all sorts of subtle and interesting ways. Among these were a handful of artists whose main corpus of work wouldn’t be recognized as “art” until many years later: newspaper comic strips.
Art
Who could forget Ai Weiwei's foray into music last spring? Now he's branching out creatively once more, this time with his first acting role.
News
From day one, it was important to us at Hyperallergic that everyone be paid for their work, creative and otherwise.
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Stolen paintings reappear in Italian kitchen, Qatar gives heritage support to Sudan, Helsinki Guggenheim looking for an architect, street artist found shot in Detroit, and more from the week in art news.
Poetry
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Sommer Browning for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Comics
The snow is finally losing!
Art
VILLEURBANNE, France — Rather than taking a neutral Warholian attitude towards art and the mass-produced, Bayrle’s is a critical practice of Pop art that closes the gap between the mass and the multitude by creating image-swarms where immanence meets excess.
Art
John Cage, legendary composer of experimental sounds and silence, was absolutely fascinated with mushrooms. This little-known legacy consists of his revival of the New York Mycological Society in the 1960s and his extensive fungi collection, now at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A new exh
News
"Wow. George Bush is a painter," former president George W. Bush told NBC Today interviewers regarding the reception he imagines his paintings of world leaders will receive upon their public release tomorrow.
Books
Brooklyn-based photographer Rachel Sussman spent nearly a decade tracking down the elders of our world, where life is measured in centuries instead of years.
News
The Ontario provincial government has begun cracking down on unpaid internships at magazines, shutting down programs at The Walrus, Toronto Life, Fashion Magazine, and Quill & Quire, the Toronto Star reported.