Poetry
"Complementary Noteboke" by Anselm Berrigan
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Anselm Berrigan for his sixth in a monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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Opinion
The Man Who Led 1990s Art Censorship Scandal Is Running for NYC Mayor
The name Joseph J. Lhota may not be a household one (yet), but the current Republican mayoral candidate has done a lot in his time in New York City politics. Art worlders may remember him as the man who led the Giuliani administration's push to bully the Brooklyn Museum into censoring an artwork fro
Opinion
Previously Unseen Photographs and Basquiat Ephemera Come to Light in a New York Apartment
Alexis Adler has one of the world's greatest troves of 1980s art in her apartment — doubly true because the art is her apartment. She "had relations" with Jean Michel Basquiat, as she says in a short documentary by Animal New York, and though they weren't quite boyfriend and girlfriend, Basquiat did
Opinion
New York's AIDS Memorial Looks Like a Bus Shelter
How did this ethereal design of an “infinite forest” transform into a hideous, bus-shelter-like, 18-foot steel canopy?
Art
Aesthetic Insubordination: Elevating the Everyday
Curious Matter’s current show, Aesthetic Insubordination, is modest but rewarding. Organized by Virginia-based artist Travis Childers, the exhibition features five artists who find inspiration in common domestic materials, like razor blades, buttons, and flannel.
Art
The Anti-artist-statement Statement
I hate artist statements. Really, I do. As an artist, they are almost always awkward and painful to write, and as a viewer they are similarly painful and uninformative to read. I also don’t know who decided that artists should be responsible for writing their own “artist statement.” Maybe it was an
Comics
Help Me Be More Charitable
It's a really simple solution and it would make me feel good.
Art
Free to Be You and Meme
Unless, somehow, you miraculously haven’t accessed your Facebook or Twitter in the last two days, you’ve probably noticed a proliferation of crimson tiles with superimposed pink equal signs popping up in avatars and profile pics. The instantaneously ubiquitous logo, a riff by the Human Rights Campai
Art
Making Art from the End of Love
CHICAGO — It's impossible to know when love begins. At best, we are mildly aware of its onset — a subtle brush of the hair, a lick of the lips, a quiet nudge of the hip, a gaze that lasts too long or not long enough. What we do know is that love finds us; we cannot search it out. Spanish poet Federi
Announcement
Opening Tonight, Artists Investigate the Skin at Garis & Hahn
Garis & Hahn [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/70589/49191/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/99083/0] is a new gallery on the Lower East Side whose tagline — “Est. Now” — signals their commitment to provocative contemporary programming. Tonight, the gallery opens Borderline: Depictions of
Interview
Fleeting Youth, Captured in YouTube Videos and Modeling Photos
Over the past few years, 319 Scholes gallery in Brooklyn has played host to a slew of excellent group shows collecting emerging artists working with the internet and digital technology. The space doesn’t usually host single projects — but their next exhibition will change that. Curated by art critic
Art
Watching the Beats Grow Old
From 1953 to 1963 — a period that corresponds with the publication of his most celebrated works — Allen Ginsberg snapped photographs of his cohort of soon-to-be famous friends. These shots weren’t intended for exhibition; they were mementos, thrown in the back of a drawer. He unearthed them two deca