Hyperallergic (Page 144)

Art Review

Joseph Wright of Derby’s Candlelit World

Using an extreme form of chiaroscuro, Wright portrays the dramatic moment of intellectual or moral revelation in his paintings of scientific subjects.

The Virginia A. Groot Foundation’s Transformative Grants Empower Artists

This foundation offers annual grants to support sculptors and ceramic artists with funding, studio advancement, and opportunities for material exploration.

Feature

What Exactly Is Calder Gardens?

Meaning is slippery in the new Philadelphia institution dedicated to the modernist master Alexander Calder.

New York Newsletter

The Mayor Is Present

Marina Abramović is Zohran’s muse, the Whitney Biennial announces its exhibitors, the High Line replaces a giant pigeon with a huge Buddha, and more.

Community

Art Problems: Am I Too Old to Fit In?

If you think age is an obstacle to your art career, Paddy Johnson wants you to think again.

Texas A&M’s Visualization Graduate Programs Merge Art and Technology

Full funding is available for MFA students; MS students have scholarship and assistantship opportunities. The priority deadline for funding is January 15, 2026.

Art Review

The 2025 California Biennial Is Trapped in the Past

The show's displays of juvenilia from established artists say little about adolescents today and make its message inscrutable.

Training and Critiquing AI Through Art at WashU

Tiffany Calvert creates historically inspired still life paintings with an AI twist through a collaboration with engineers at Washington University in St. Louis.

Daily Newsletter

Whitney Biennial Artists Revealed

Also: The rise of anti-monarchical art, a First Amendment rally in New York City, a Brutalist icon in Dallas, and more.

News

Artists Issue Urgent Call to Defend First Amendment Rights

In New York City's Federal Hall, where the Bill of Rights was introduced, cultural leaders decried attacks on free expression, from book bans to censorship.

Opinion

The Sinister Plan to Demolish a Brutalist Icon in Dallas

Behind the spectacle of City Hall’s potential demolition is the transfer of funding away from the public and into a few extraordinarily wealthy hands.