Art
A Photographer's Portrait of the Theater of the Streets
A pioneer of street photography, Levitt worked in the most crowded and poorest neighborhoods of New York searching for the theater of everyday life.
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The Materiality of Memory in the Paintings of Eugène Leroy
Leroy's canvases seem to be about age and decay — about the process and limits of recollection made manifest.
Art
Art Classes Are Helping Transform Medical Education
Classes like Anne Willieme’s are part of the burgeoning field of medical humanities, which aims to tackle the disciplinary divide between art and science.
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Ten North American Museums to Offer 12-Week $6,300 Paid Internships
Museums in Austin, Louisville, Madison, Montreal, New Orleans, Tampa, and elsewhere will be joining the program, now in its third year.
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Twitter's New NFT Feature is an Annoying Show-off of Crypto Wealth
On the bright side: The feature can be muted!
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When The Art Connoisseur Is a Robot
A recent study has found that AI technology can identify an artist's brushstrokes with over 90% accuracy.
Art
Native American Sovereignty’s Impact on the Curation of Indigenous Art
Join Hyperallergic for an online conversation with Kiowa Tribal Museum Director Tahnee Ahtone on January 25 at 7pm (EST).
Art
Required Reading
This week, Patrisse Cullors speaks, reviewing John Richardson's final Picasso book, the Met Museum snags a rare oil on copper by Nicolas Poussin, and much more.
Art
Something Is Not Right With The World
Alexi Worth's paintings demand a double take that allows viewers to look closer and begin dissembling the painting in order to understand what is being looked at.
Art
An Artist's Altar to Divine Feminine Energy
Anastasia Pelias’s sculpture builds on this mythological legacy, suggesting we all have the ability to commune with a higher power and influence our futures.
Poetry
A Brilliant Poetry Star Who Burned Out Too Quickly
Jack Spicer’s poetry can be deeply funny and playful but it has a consistent undercurrent of sadness.
Books
The Machine Aesthetic in George Rickey’s Sculptures
Belinda Rathbone’s biography traces the sculptor’s embrace of kinetic mechanisms to his work in the Singer Sewing Machine factory.