Art
The Never-Ending Cycle of Fear and Desire
Gary Simmons’s art suggests that rather than make progress our culture more often makes elaborate circles over and over again on the ice until the music stops.
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Luigi Mangione Street and Protest Art Crops Up Around the World
A Seattle mural portraying the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter as the iconic Nintendo character is among many similar works in recent weeks.
News
This Hanukkah, Let’s Bring Back Judith Menorahs
The legendary heroine was once widely recognized with fried ricotta pancakes during holiday celebrations. What’s responsible for her erasure?
Art
Mary Ann Peters’s Obscured Memorials to Buried Histories
More context could have resulted in greater connections between viewers and the tantalizing glimpses of profound and difficult human experiences in Peters’s art.
Art
Making Food Into an Art in Muslim-Majority Cultures
Focused on the SWANA region, "The Art of Dining" transforms meals into narrative experiences, showing how food connects people not only to their roots, but also to each another.
Art
The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2024 Edition
Our annual list recognizes and celebrates those in our community who are left in the shadows of the powerful.
Art
Hyperallergic’s 10 Hottest Social Media Videos of 2024
Millions watched our videos this year, which delved into the magical alchemy of Rembrandt’s paint, French tweens pulling pranks with highlighters, protests outside the Met Gala, and more.
Art
Ai Weiwei Knocks Down the Building Blocks of Empire
His toy-brick masterpieces are tributes to anyone terrorized and brutalized by the world’s great powers and their proxies.
Art
Holly Wright Challenges Our Sense of Vanity
At the Fralin Museum of Art, photographer Holly Wright reduces her poet laureate husband to a mouthpiece, and asks her subjects to think upon their own deaths.
Community
A View From the Easel
“My one true love is oil paint.”
Art
Required Reading
This week, the role of the artist in times of crisis, how Yale used counterterrorist tactics against student protesters, decoding 2,000-year-old scrolls, PR-washing Saudi Arabia, the Chinese god of male-male love, and much more.
Film
Palestinian Film Centering Stories From Gaza Shortlisted for Oscars
Rashid Masharawi’s From Ground Zero weaves together the work of 22 Gazan filmmakers surviving through Israel’s continued attacks.