Art
A Guide to Sri Lanka’s Diverse Art Spaces
A birthplace of the country’s Modernist movement, the rural estate of a queer icon, incubators for young artists, and other art spaces to pay attention to.
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Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: November 2024
Ernie Bushmiller’s beloved comic, looted bronze sculptures, the iconic designer in The Incredibles, and more.
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Hone Your Artistic Development With a 2025 Residency at Banff Centre
Benefit from time, studio space, facilities, feedback, and engagement with peers and faculty in an unrivaled natural environment in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
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RISD Pre-Collegiate Programs Now Enrolling for Summer 2025
Rhode Island School of Design offers in-person and online opportunities for teens to develop as artists and individuals.
Book Review
A Photographer’s Unflinching Hymn to Her Aging Body
Rosalind Fox Solomon forged her way as an artist at 53. With remarkable self-knowledge, A Woman I Once Knew lays out her nonagenarian life story.
News
Turkey’s Queer Art Community Walks a Thin Line
Amid the country’s ongoing crackdown on LGBTQ+ people, queer artists and curators are caught between creative resistance and self-censorship.
Film
How Did a Pro-Democracy Activist Become a Trump Supporter?
Over seven years, director Nanfu Wang documented Cuban activist Rosa María Payá’s fight for a democratic Cuba — and her journey to endorsing the MAGA movement.
Comics
NYC Housing Stories: Felice Kirby and Jenny Dubnau
Meet the artists, activists, and organizers on the front lines of the housing justice movement in New York City. Part three of a series.
Art
Vandals Deface Mural Made for Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial
“History In the Making” depicts residents of the city's “Black Wall Street,” targeted by Klan-led mobs in 1921.
News
Van Gogh's “Irises” Were Never Supposed to Be Blue
A new exhibition chronicles how a paintings conservator and chemist solved a color mystery in one of the painter’s most beloved works.
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Sistine Chapel May Depict Woman With Breast Cancer, Study Says
The bare chest of a female figure in Michelangelo’s rendition of The Flood “shows features consistent with breast carcinoma,” according to new research.
Art
Six New York City Shows to See Right Now
Ai Weiwei’s artistic interventions, Black artists’ responses to ancient Egypt, and the impressive offerings of El Museo’s 2024 triennial are among our favorite art shows of the moment.