Art
Machines Cannot Replace Human Boredom
Katherine Behar’s automated office machines simply pantomime labor, just like many bored office workers after they’ve fulfilled their daily email quota.
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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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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.
News
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.