Art

Raw Portraits of UK Village Win Top Prize at Sony World Photography Awards

Craig Easton collaborated with writer Abdul Aziz Hafiz to challenge depictions of a small community in Lancashire as “the most segregated in Britain.”

News

Week in Review: Penn Museum to Repatriate Skulls of Enslaved People; MoMA “Strike” Launches

Also, a survey by the American Alliance of Museums revealed the toll of the pandemic on museum workers’ mental health, and more.

News

10 Artists Will Collaborate on Racial Equity and Climate Justice Projects in the Bay Area

Each member of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts cohort will receive $50,000 and additional funding for materials to realize their projects.

News

Leaked Email From MoMA Director to Staff Mischaracterizes Recent Protests

The recent email from Glenn Lowry suggests the museum director is attempting to control the narrative around Strike MoMA’s current protests.

Art

Jordan Eagles Critiques Medical Prejudice Against Queer Men Using Blood and Nostalgia

Can You Save Superman? II explores the politics of blood donation and the residual ignorance surrounding HIV/AIDS.

Film

Kevin B. Lee's New Video Essay Explores Mourning with Minari

In a Hyperallergic exclusive, Lee muses on the aftermath of the Atlanta spa shootings and how the media imagines Asian Americans.

Art

Maya Lin Erects a Ghostly Grove of Dead Trees in Manhattan

Lin’s Ghost Forest at Madison Square Park will feature 50 towering white cedars devastated by climate change.

Art

See a 4,000-Year-Old 3D Map of France

Researchers believe the Bronze Age stone bears a crude map of an area in France’s Brittany region.

Music

Experience a Scottish Concert as It Would Have Sounded in 1512

Researchers reproduced the acoustics of a defunct chapel at Linlithgow Palace during an Easter Mass performance.

News

The Pandemic’s Impact on Museum Workers’ Mental Health

Half of surveyed museum staff reported a heavier workload since the start of the pandemic.

Art

Wielding Time and Text, Tiffany Sia Documents Hong Kong’s Resistance

Slippery When Wet evokes the sociopolitical pressure-cooker that has manufactured Hong Kong’s culture of protest.

Art

Slow Bodies, Racing Hearts: Lucía Vidales’s Paintings of Our Changing Selves

Pleasingly difficult to decipher, Vidales’s paintings evoke the paradoxes of a year defined by solitude.