Art
Deborah Jack Explores the Shared Histories of the Body and Landscape
A current retrospective highlights Jack’s insistence on photography’s capacity to express stories held in the environment rather than the archive.
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Art
Embroidery Art Is Thriving Across India
“Embroidery feels like a language that my hands speak,” says Jahnavee Baruah.
Opinion
Listening to the Colors in Kandinsky’s Paintings
For all the talk of synesthesia and the trans-sensory experience of music and color, music has been conspicuously absent from recent exhibitions of Kandinsky.
Film
The Passive, Tech-Obsessed Opening of the Winter Olympics
Everything that distinguished director Zhang Yimou’s famed opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympics feels either lacking or missing altogether here.
News
Sumo Wrestlers In Mid-Air, A Day Of the Dead Icon, And Other Winning World Photos
Contenders from 61 countries took part in the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards’ National competition.
News
“Dune Sandworm” Sculpture Rears Its Head At Stanford
Xu Zhen’s sculpture “Hello” has been called “surreal,” “edgy,” and “Stanford’s very own sandworm from Dune.”
News
Those Ancient Roman Pots May Actually Be Portable Toilets
Whether museums will be excited to discover that they’re the proud owners of these “chamber pots” remains to be seen.
News
Biden Reverses Trump-Era Arts Restrictions
Trump's constrictive policy required that art in federal spaces “illustrate the ideals upon which our nation was founded” and excluded artists working in abstract styles.
Art
Witnessing & Curating the Art of Bessie Harvey
Join Hyperallergic for an online conversation with curator Frederica Simmons on February 15 at 7pm (EST).
Interview
The Gift of Humanity in Bessie Harvey's Art, an Interview With Faye Harvey Dean
The collective wisdom that she acquired through the diasporic Black American experience of womanhood allowed her to recall her value and humanity, which she poured into her art.
Art
The Beastliness of Bacon
Bacon was obsessed by animals lifelong. Rawness. Beastliness. Fearsomeness. The way they lived. The way they died. The way they preyed upon each other.
Art
“Creative Seeing” in the Paintings of Elmer Bischoff and Tom Burckhardt
Bischoff and Burckhardt questioned assumptions and conventions regarding abstraction and how we apprehend it. In fact, their questioning is what makes this a fruitful pairing.