Announcement
Christie's Education Hosts a Symposium on the Art of Climate Activism
The event will take place on June 11, 2019, and will feature keynote speaker Mary Miss, a longtime pioneer for integrating art into the public realm.
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Art
How Social Media Profiles Act as Bizarre Digital Gravestones
As more people die but their internet presences linger, we have to find ways to grapple with these documents of who they were.
Art
Camp at the Met Museum: A Serious Fail at “Failed Seriousness”
The problem with the exhibition is that it’s simultaneously too self-aware and too clueless to capture the essence of camp.
News
Week in Review: Turmoil with Robert Indiana’s Estate Continues, Brazil’s National Museum Needs Funds
Also, Machu Picchu is revising its rules to reduce deterioration of the Incan citadel, David Adjaye will design the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, and more.
Interview
The Spirits that Haunt the Words of Edgar Heap of Birds
Hyperallergic sat down with Edgar Heap of Birds to discuss his current exhibition at MoMA PS1.
News
Claude Monet Sells for $110M at Sotheby's, van Gogh Museum Acquires Three Works
Plus, Jeff Koons has regained his title as the world's most expensive living artist, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami has added work by 11 artists including Barthélémy Toguo and Cecilia Vicuña to its collection.
Film
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Dream to Walk on Water
A new documentary reveals the passion and labor that went into creating artworks that look too fantastical to be true.
Art
“The AIDS Crisis Is Still Beginning,” Says Artist and Activist Gregg Bordowitz
In a retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago, Bordowitz reflects on living as a queer Jewish man with HIV and challenges us to understand the AIDS crisis as both historical and contemporary.
Art
Paintings of Friends and Lovers Whose Inner Lives Glow Around Them
Louis Fratino’s characters so fully inhabit their emotional states that the world of thoughtless violence and casual cruelty seems to dissolve around them.
News
Indigenous Womxn’s Collective Stages Protest Inside 2019 Whitney Biennial
"Indigenous people and other people of color are violently under attack by Warren Kanders’ manufactured weapons of terrorism,” the protesters said in a statement.
Art
A Fashion Duo Draws Inspiration from Detroit’s Labor History
For Labor of Love, the Toledos created a series of breathtaking garments, sculptures, paintings, and drawings inspired by various works in the Detroit Institute of Arts' world-class collection.
Announcement
Cry Joy Park Investigates Utopia and Dystopia with Cut Paper Flowers and Ink-On-Glass Paintings
On view at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, the installation aims to present both an alluring, gorgeous and otherworldly garden, and its darker counterpart.