Opinion
Gender Gap Remains Pervasive in Academia
Gender browser provides a "multiscale view of gender representation across multiple domains of scholarly publishing." The picture ain't pretty.
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Art
Validating Me and Myselfie
CHICAGO — This week's selfie series is curated entirely from submissions that you, dear internet reader, sent to me through the selfies [at] hyperallergic [dot] com email address. I was wondering if you'd accept the challenge to write, and indeed, you did. Thank you. You are fearless.
Opinion
Do We Still Need to Defend Outsider Art?
Apparently we do. From an art critic, of all people. In last week's Village Voice, critic Christian Viveros-Faune wrote what would have been a great review of the current Llyn Foulkes retrospective at the New Museum — if he hadn't started the piece with an inexplicable three-paragraph screed against
Art
Vanquished Modernism Reconsidered in Pink
LOS ANGELES — Rudolph Schindler was ahead of his time. A protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright and an early adapter of modernism, he introduced a revolutionary form of architecture to Los Angeles in the early 1900s. Unfortunately, at the time, no one cared.
Art
The Emptiness of Art
Many people love art for its power to transport, whether through a painting that brings us to the banks of the Seine in 19th-century France or an installation that immerses us in a fanciful and imagined alternate world. But what about when art refuses to carry us away, offering instead only blank sp
Comics
Celebrity Jokes
Why isn't everyone laughing?
Art
How Are Artists Getting Paid?
How are artists who have been systematically denied fair wages and access to basic services like healthcare and unemployment protections gaining access to those things today?
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Žižek weighs in a global protest, Walker Evans at MoMA, political cartoons, Smithsonian's space problem, Faulkner sues Woody Allen, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Name
In light of J.K. Rowling's undercover success, Weekend Words wonders, what's in a name?
Art
Who Is Geneviève Asse?
PARIS — At ninety, the painter Geneviève Asse is one of France’s national treasures, though France has yet to fully celebrate that fact, as it has with Pierre Soulages, who is four years her elder. A postage stamp with her profile in front of one of her abstract paintings has been issued (Soulages a
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (July 2013, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of the So So Glos, Portugal the Man, Deafheaven, and Kanye West.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Glenn Goldberg
I met Glenn Goldberg in 2005 when I was curating an exhibition about the history of the New York Studio School. Goldberg’s tools-in-trade are elemental: dots, patterns, and symbolic, iconic representations of birds, trees, flowers. They couldn’t be more different from the traditions of the Studio Sc