Art
How the Face of Rio de Janeiro Radically Changed Over Five Centuries
A new digital atlas, imagineRio, reveals how the city’s urban evolution has unfolded from its 16th century roots to the present day.
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Opinion
The Costly Glow of Light Pollution
There’s something jarring about Lightscape's use of two principal culprits behind current ecological disruption: lavish energy consumption and literal fire.
News
Faith Ringgold Mural in Rikers Island Women's Jail May Head to Brooklyn Museum
The mural was on display until 1988, when the Correctional Institution for Women became a male detention center and the painting was whitewashed.
News
Celebrate Public Domain Day With Works by Kafka, Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston
Also available is the first Winnie the Pooh book and Langston Hughes’s debut poetry collection.
Guide
Your Concise New York Art Guide for January 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Robert Gober, Shannon Ebner, Sherrill Roland, Suné Woods, and more.
Guide
Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for January 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month.
Art
Jonny Negron’s Darker Portraits of Party Life
Jonny Negron captures the disappointment and delights of Dionysian narcissism.
Film
A Return to The Matrix Explores Binary Thinking
With The Matrix Resurrections, writer/director Lana Wachowski critically examines how our understanding of gender and identity has changed since the original trilogy.
News
Scientists “Digitally Unwrap" Amenhotep I's Mummy
This pharaonic mummy is the only one dating from the New Kingdom that has not been unwrapped and hence irreversibly damaged in the process in modern times.
Art
The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2021 Edition
Welcome to our annual list which highlights those who are rendered powerless in a system unduly influenced by the super-rich and the institutions and businesses that serve them.
Art
Hyperallergic's Most Popular Posts of 2021
This year's list shows us Hyperallergic readers have a wide-ranging appetite for news, reviews, and opinions.
Art
A Philosopher-Painter for Troubled Times
Judith Bernstein is a great artist whose boldly original paintings forcefully respond to the troubled life of our present culture.