Hyperallergic (Page 58)

Feature

Florida’s Indigenous Artists Take Center Stage at Miami Art Week

An exhibition organized by the HistoryMiami Museum and the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum is an ode to Seminole creativity and resilience.

Art Review

Jennifer Packer Confronts Grief Through Paintings That Cut Deep

The painter mines an iconographical language of grief through delicate, translucent paintings imbued with a sense of intimacy and intensity.

Opinion

As the US Slides Into Tyranny, Europe Champions Black American Artists

It’s a striking contradiction: Four Black American artists get major shows in Europe while the American institutional capacity and constitutional protections collapse in tandem.

Art Review

Basking in the Light of Raúl de Nieves’s Stained Glass Tarot

With its spiritual and religious connotations, de Nieves's installation transforms Pioneer Works from a creative space to a contemplative one.

Book Review

Louise Bourgeois’s Life Was as Monumental as Her Art

Writing one of the first comprehensive biographies of a major artist could prove daunting, but taking on Bourgeois's long life in art might be called heroic.

News

Pope Francis’s Camera Sells for $7.5M

The Leica M-A owned by the late pontiff is one of the most valuable models ever sold at auction.

Book Review

Monuments Were Never Meant to Last Forever

Art historian Cat Dawson’s new book invites us to contemplate a world populated by subversive monuments — or one that does away with them altogether.

Community

Required Reading

This week: Lankton Greer’s dolls live on, Indigenous glass artists, AI slop recipes take over the holidays, contact lens art, chronically offline hobbies, and much more.

A View From the Easel

“I feel so safe and unselfconscious here in my garage studio.”