Interview
Dan Hicks on the Benin Bronzes and Ultraviolence of World Culture Museums
"The Brutish Museums" considers the histories of cruelty that western museums perpetuate when they do not endeavor to return looted colonial artifacts.
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Podcast
The Biggest Art Stories of the Month, From Bernie Memes to the Vessel Shutdown
There’s been a lot of news recently, so Hyperallergic’s news team discusses some of the big art stories of the month in this episode.
News
A Botticelli Portrait Becomes the Second Most Expensive Old Master Painting Sold at Auction
The tempera on panel painting is one of three portraits by the 15th-century artist left in private hands.
News
A Handbook for Artists Facing Persecution
PEN America has released a critical guide for artists at risk, created with input from persecuted creators around the world.
Announcement
The Jewish Museum Presents a Panel on Lawrence Weiner’s Latest Installation
Hear from artists, community activists, and cultural theorists as they discuss the impact of public artworks and the role of museums in achieving equity.
Art
Lush Yet Crisp: Beatriz Milhazes’s Lively Abstractions
Avenida Paulista, Milhazes’s largest survey to date, offers an engrossing overview of how the artist cross-pollinates painting and printmaking.
Comics
An Artist Develops a Daily Habit of Drawing Plants During COVID-19
A comic artist speaks to artists across the world to see how they — and their practices — have been holding up.
Community
A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine
This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in Los Angeles, Nova Scotia, and a Grecian island.
News
Week in Review: Gallery Graffitied With QAnon Conspiracies; MCA Chicago Lays off 11% of Staff
Also, MoMA Chairman Leon Black stepped down as CEO of his equity firm following a review of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, but remains on the museum board.
News
Museum of Bible Returns 5,000 Artifacts With “Insufficient” Provenance to Egypt
The US Department of Homeland Security returned the artifacts to Cairo yesterday, concluding Egypt’s efforts to retrieve the items since 2016.
News
In an Unusual Crime, Someone Threw a Stolen Painting Into the Gardner Museum
The Boston museum, the site of one of history’s most notorious unsolved art crimes, now finds itself indirectly connected to another.
News
A Fanciful Collection of Over 4,000 Rare Surrealist Books and Periodicals
Collectors Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong, who have been building a collection of international Surrealist literature since the 1960s, donated the trove to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.