Art
“Women’s Work” as an Aesthetic Provocation
While I cheered at the idea that a largely forgotten woman Dadaist was finally getting her due, I couldn’t help but wonder why the art world’s recognition of Sophie Taeuber-Arp has been so spotty.
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Art
Ulysses Jenkins, a Daring Video Artist, Expanded Ideas of Blackness
Jenkins’s videos do more than talk back to a racist screen.
Art
The Spirited Sculpture of Octavio Medellín, Beloved Mexican-American Artist and Teacher
Medellín’s first museum retrospective is a thoughtful tribute to his lifelong pursuit of craft and sincere search for connection.
Art
Who was Cleopatra Really?
Cleopatra has been embraced, rejected, and redefined by so many different people, and the most recent depiction arrives in an upcoming biopic.
Interview
Lynching Postcards Explores a Dark Corner of US History
Director Christine Turner explains to Hyperallergic how her documentary short interrogates the white gaze and seeks to reaffirm some ugly truths about the past.
Comics
"We Are Safe, the Bomb Shelter Is Fine," Ukrainian Cartoonists Draw Under Siege
Notes from Ukrainians during the start of the Russian invasion.
News
Calling For “No-Fly Zone” Over Ukraine, Artists Launch Hundreds of Paper Planes at Guggenheim Museum
"Protect the sky over Ukraine," read the flyers-turned-planes, created by a group of New York-based artists and activists.
News
Archeologists Uncover the Oldest Ochre Workshop in East Asia
Artifacts found at the 40,000-year-old site suggest that powders of different hues and grain sizes were produced there.
News
A Museum Is Using Its Erotic Ceramics Collection for Cancer Prevention
Visitors to the Museo Larco in Peru learned how to perform self-tests for prostate and testicular cancer by touching the genitals of replicas of pre-Columbian huacos.
News
Paris Wax Museum Ditches Putin
The museum is considering replacing the wax, which has been damaged by visitors, with a statue of Putin’s nemesis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Art
The Brilliant Blooms of EJ Hill’s Painted Flowers
“I was sad and tired, so I decided to buy myself flowers,” Hill shares.
Art
Artists in Denver Invite You to Their Yards, Living Rooms, and Skating Rinks
From an art incubator wedged between a train station and stairwell to a roving space where you can skate and look at art, spaces in Colorado's capital are engaging new audiences through unusual means.