Interview
When the lights went out at the opening of Craig Olson’s show at the Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, a painting called “Baba Yaga’s Question” dissolved from a red-and-green cloverleaf-shaped panel into a field of unearthly luminescence. Everyone clapped.
Art
Just north of UC Berkeley's campus, hidden away in a small patch of woods, is the Berkeley Art Center, currently showing the exhibition Local Treasures: Bay Area Ceramics. Wanting to know more about the Bay Area's art scene — craft included — I felt compelled to visit. The beautiful, small building
Art
MANILA, Philippines — There is a sweet dish in the Philippines called halo-halo, a rainbow of beans, fruits, and jellies mixed with ice and topped with ice cream. Literally translated, it means “mix-mix,” as if repetition were needed to reassert its delectable cacophony of flavors. Walking the halls
News
Earlier this week, Bushwick Daily reported some sad and surprising news: the Bogart Salon gallery would be closing on October 29. Only it turns out — happily! — this isn't true.
Opinion
I've always enjoyed riding the subway impossible distances — out to Coney Island, say, or the Far Rockaways — largely because the cityscape and the scenery change so much along the way. Traveling out to the ends of various lines transports you away from the New York City you know.
Art
Every day New Yorkers wander the gridded streets of the city, traveling to and around subway stations in the morning and under neon signs at night. The study of how a geographic environment like this affects us emotionally and behaviorally is called psychogeography.
Art
KAMPALA, Uganda — All over Kampala, and in many parts of Uganda, you'll find them: shipping containers. From and to all over the world, shipping containers arrive and go out. Some stay, serving as a storage container on the side of a road, repurposed for whatever the contents. Others go. But, for th
Community
CHICAGO — Five artists from New York, Ontario, Utah, and Wyoming open up their studios for Hyperallergic readers.
Art
BERKELEY, California — Ratio 3 gallery's new show of work by Lutz Bacher is a must see. The large, skylight-lit, raw gallery space is perfect for Bacher's captivating installation of audio, visual, and sculptural work. Upon entering the gallery one immediately focuses on the small black spheres scat
Art
This weekend, a slice of our New York community will be traveling to Canada for Brooklyn Montreal, a two-city festival celebrating contemporary art.
Art
CHICAGO — Instead of saying to yourself, "There's an app for that," repeat after me: "There's an emoji for that." In our technology-inundated world of constantly being glued to the glowing screens of our iPhones and Androids, more apps are not the answer to our first-world problems. What we need is
Opinion
Words and writing, even those you're seeing here, are an imperfect vehicle for communication. There's always a disconnect between the writer and their audience; meaning is translated through a medium that's easy to misunderstand or misinterpret. Spanish photographer Alejandro Guijjaro's Momentum ser