News
Tate Names Dia Leader Jessica Morgan as Next Director
The British curator will return to London to helm the museum network beginning next year.
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Art Review
Beyond the Myth of Chico da Silva
Presenting da Silva with Amazonian artists of different generations undermines the Western notion of the artist as an isolated genius.
In Memoriam
Remembering Christine Borland, John Will, and Astrid Furnival
This week, we honor an artist who explored human fragility through science, a pioneering British textile artist, and a champion of digital art.
Art Review
You Can Love David Hockney and Still Hate His iPad Paintings
No amount of curatorial artspeak counters the sense that the late artist’s massive digital painting lacks the inventive mark-making and use of color that characterized his life’s work.
News
Artists Sue NYC Gallery The Hole for Nonpayment
The suit filed by Daniel Um and Nastaran Shahbazi concerns nearly $50,000 in payments allegedly owed to the artists.
News
Juliana Huxtable and Mark Bradford in Major Gift to the Zimmerli Art Museum
Collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein have gifted over 70 works of modern and contemporary art to the Rutgers University museum.
Profile
Sabri Sundos Faces Catastrophe With Flowers
“I am obsessed with autonomy and movement,” the Palestinian-American artist tells Hyperallergic in an interview.
Feature
How Jimothy the Raccoon Became a Hero of the Misfits
The short-spined Seattle animal with an unfettered spirit has been honored in fan art, tattoos, and murals.
Art Review
SVA Grads Make Art out of History’s Rubble
The Art Practice MFA thesis exhibition rewrites what came before, pushing back against harmful systems and inventing better ways of living together.
Book Review
Helen Levitt Captured the Poetry of New York City
A new survey publication serves as a testament to the photographer’s belief that the city’s working-class communities of color possessed a beauty and drama all their own.
News
The Art Institute of Chicago to Cut Its Entire Custodial Staff
The museum's union called the plan to outsource in-house custodial work to a third-party vendor a "devastating and unconscionable injustice."
Film Review
A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”
“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”