News
POC-led Arts Orgs In NYC Call for $100M to Address "Cultural Inequity"
HueArts NYC, a new citywide initiative, hopes to secure greater support for institutions led by and serving people of color.
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Returning to the Island of Chiloé
Join Hyperallergic for an online conversation with curator Dan Cameron on February 22 at 7pm (EST).
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Satisfyingly Tactile Art at Frieze Los Angeles
It is as if, after two years of staring at works on screen, galleries knew that audiences were hungry for artwork so physical, you could devour them with your eyes.
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Required Reading
This week, the world's largest black diamond, Francis Ford Coppola is spending $120M of his own money to make a film, post-colonialism in the post-Soviet space, Ikea's quest for the last of Europe's old growth forests, and more.
Art
The Mystique of Chiloé Reflected in Its Art
Instead of believing I’m helping local artists by bringing international art to Chiloé, the best contribution I can make may be to help provide a venue where local artists and artisans can show their art for the benefit of each other.
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The Spring/Break Art Show Fills Up an LA Warehouse With Eccentric Visions
This year’s theme, Hearsay/Heresy, allowed curators and artists to play with dissent, nonconformity, and truth versus fact.
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Connection, Contemplation, and Contested Histories in Contemporary Native American and Indigenous Art
Snake whisky still life and other stories tackles the stereotyping, misrepresentation, and appropriation of Indigenous cultures.
Art
Byron Kim Plumbs the Depths of Nature and the Imagination
Despite all we know about the environment and what we are doing to it, Kim arrives at another, less palatable realization: As much as we call the Earth our home, we are strangers here.
Art
The Figural Ghosts of Oliver Lee Jackson's Expressive Abstraction
Jackson's two-dimensional surfaces lead us into a maze of shapes and visual gestures, yet tease us into recognizing the figures hidden within.
Opinion
Like Elizabeth Holmes, Design Students are Being Taught to Present Optimism over Reality
Many of these MFA design programs are teaching fraud at scale.
Books
Caio Fernando Abreu's Short Stories Charm with Questions of Life and Love
Moldy Strawberries is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking, vaulting existential questions across the page while poking fun at the urge to ask them in the first place.
News
500 Years of Drawing the Human Body
A show opening next week at the Getty Research Center plumbs the visual power of anatomical aesthetics.