Art
I Attended My First “Plant Funeral” in New York City
With my plastic container of dirt in hand, I entered the Lower East Side arts space Chinatown Soup and joined a crowd teeming with shriveled leaves, moldy roots, and wilted stems.
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Art
The Most Joyful Hats of NYC’s Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival
From artwork tributes to miniature landmarks, this year’s event brought together the quirky, camp, and fantastical in what one participant called “a love-fest.”
Art Review
Patty Chang Looks Into the Abyss
The artist meditates on motherhood, and more broadly, on empathy, connection, and violence across space, species, and time.
Art Review
Myrlande Constant Immerses Us in Opulence
Standing before Constant’s sumptuous embroideries, shimmering with beads and sequins, is awe-inspiring and joyfully disorienting.
Crosswords
Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: April 2025
The other Dalí, a Cubist chessboard, polaroids of queer 1970s Houston, and more.
News
DOGE Meeting With National Gallery of Art Sets Off Alarm Bells
The Elon Musk-led agency met with museum leadership to discuss the organization’s “legal status” as the Trump administration continues its attacks on federal arts funding.
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Announcement
NADA New York 2025 Features 120 International Galleries
The New Art Dealers Alliance’s signature fair presents a diverse and expanded selection of contemporary art from around the world. On view May 7–11.
Interview
Isaac Julien Returns to the Cutting Room Floor of History
“I want to call attention to how you look,” the artist known for his multi-channel film installations says of I Dream a World, his first US museum survey to date.
Art Review
A Vision of Design That Transcends Empire’s Grid
Reverberations decenters anthropocentrism, builds upon non-Western cosmologies, and harnesses alternative knowledge-keeping.
Art
What’s at the Heart of Our Tarot Fascination?
An exhibition at the Warburg Institute proposes that tarot brings forth a smart mixture of play and ancient wisdom that might help us juggle our reality.
Art
Clara Peeters’s Still Lifes Are Even Better Than the Real Thing
In her paintings, the 17th-century Dutch painter captured a pure, crystalline moment of time with unnerving verisimilitude.
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Move Over, Jeff Koons, There's a New Balloon Sculpture in Town
CJ Hendry’s massive inflatable installation, Keff Joons, transforms a seemingly unassuming Brooklyn warehouse into an air-filled rainbow playground.