Art
The Tricky Role of Humor in Activist Art and Design
An SFMOMA exhibition raises questions about what it means when museum board members have ties to politicians who support border wall policies.
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Art
Exhibiting the Afterlives of Looted Art
The Jewish Museum delves into "degenerate" art and art made under duress as part of a thought-provoking yet diffuse exhibition.
Art
Drawing the Intricate Environment of an Indigenous Venezuelan Community
Despite his work’s apparent abstraction, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe insists that “I don’t invent anything, everything I do is my jungle and what is there.”
Art
Photographers "Reframe History" at Photo Vogue Festival
David Uzochukwu, Kennedi Carter, and Kiki Xue are among the 35 artists whose work will be displayed online and at the festival in Milan, Italy.
Comics
Art’s Final Resting Place
The stuff art dreams are made of.
Interview
Do You Dare Take the ‘World’s Fair Challenge’?
Jane Schoenbrun talks to Hyperallergic about We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and making the internet cinematic.
Opinion
Why the Elgin Marbles Should Not be Returned to Greece ... Yet
To do so before they have returned the Maqdala treasures and the Benin Bronzes and the Easter Island statues and the Maori heads, before a coherent set of precepts for decolonization has been articulated, would affirm the wrong principle.
News
Curator Discovers What May Be the World's Earliest Depiction of a Ghost
"Everybody in Mesopotamia, as far as I understand it, believed in ghosts," said Irving Finkel, a curator of the British Museum's Middle Eastern department.
Art
Reasons for Optimism in Istanbul's Art World
The new generation of artists and curators is eager to explore alternative organizations and to tackle current social inequalities and issues.
Art
Model, Rebel, and Painter, Suzanne Valadon Defied the Odds
Her female nudes were extraordinary for the time because she portrayed female sexual desire. Her subjects defied conventional ideals of femininity.
Books
Artist Sam Francis Gets His First Comprehensive Biography
Francis made over 10,000 artworks, starred in more than 100 solo exhibitions, and, in the late 1950s to mid-1960s, commanded the highest prices of any living painter.
Books
A Psychedelic History of Mushrooms as Medicine
Brian Blomerth’s Mycelium Wassonii deploys amazing graphic storytelling to share his own exploration of mushroom history.