Podcast
What's Up With Museum Layoffs, Union Problems, and Untouchable Endowments?
As news of layoffs and furloughs continue, the Hyperallergic team takes a look at the issues of concern at museums and elsewhere.
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Books
An Architect’s Tribute to the Power of Design and Memory
At a time when many of us are more housebound than usual, Robert Hutchison’s Memory Houses offers tools for the conceptual construction of spaces to hold grief or build new mental architecture.
In Brief
How Is Banksy Spending Quarantine? By Turning His Bathroom Into a Work of Art
Stuck at home, Banksy has painted his bathroom with his signature cheeky rats, toppling products and ruining his toilet.
Announcement
The Bennett Prize's Call for Entries Is Now Open
Women figurative realist painters have until October 16 to enter to win $50,000 and a traveling solo exhibition of their work.
Art
John Chamberlain’s Previously Unknown Poems From Black Mountain College
Here’s a sneak peek of the artist’s previously unknown writings from 1955, to be published by Princeton University Press this month.
Art
Why Museums Can’t Always Fall Back on Endowments
The COVID-19 pandemic may be an opportunity to look transparently at museum endowments and their limitations, and consider the need for alternative sources of support in the months to come.
In Brief
NYC Man Arrested for Threatening to Bomb Central Park’s Alice in Wonderland Sculpture
Kevin Fallon, a 30-year-old New Yorker, was arrested on April 11 after police found three pipe bombs in his apartment.
Interview
Woman Creates an Art Gallery for Her Lizard With “American Gecko” and “The Birth of Gecko”
"Every pet deserves a cultural outing," says The Mayor's owner Jill Young.
Film
Tiger King and the Unforgivable Sloppiness of Modern True Crime Shows
Series like Tiger King, Making a Murderer, and more have become huge hits thanks to their engrossing stories. But the way they present these stories leaves much to be desired.
Interview
Film Essayist Chloé Galibert-Laîné on the Careful Choreography of Desktop Cinema
Ahead of Galibert-Laîné’s debut at Images Festival, she talks to Hyperallergic about making video essays solely with a computer.
Art
A Fashion Designer’s Love Letter to Art in Chicago
Duro Olowu has curated a dazzling show of Chicago art that is as varied and colorful as the patterns in his clothing.
News
Memes Liken Trump’s “Council to Re-open America” to Scrooge McDuck and Skeletor
Twitter was flooded with spot-on parodies of Trump’s task force after Fox News speculated that the council’s members will include Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Steve Mnuchin.