Comics
I Never Was a Graffiti Artist
Revisiting my teenage years working for artists Freedom and Crash and renovating Keith Haring's Pop Shop, I wrestle with the ironies of parenting as my son takes up tagging.
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Opinion
The Fetishistic Fiction of Museums' “Tibetan” Shrines
Institutions peddle a Western aesthetic of “traditional” Tibetan shrines without scholarly backing, negating their limitless lived variety.
Features
The Artist Whose Fauci Portraits Enraged the White House
Hugo Crosthwaite, whose stop-motion animation about the scientist was targeted by the Trump administration, talks to Hyperallergic about the work’s backstory.
Art Review
The Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction
A show on Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams gives a sense of how different, even alarming, these pieces would have been to viewers in the 1960s.
Features
Reclaiming a Whitewashed History of the Great Depression
A new exhibition focuses on Black Southerners documented by photographers like Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Ben Shahn.
News
Art Dealers Get Candid Ahead of the Armory Show
Amid market unease and slimmer blue-chip participation, some galleries see an opportunity to cultivate collectors at the mammoth Manhattan fair.
News
Facing $15M Budget Deficit, CalArts Lays Off Workers
Faculty and union members are questioning the staff cuts, arguing that they will harm the school’s ability to nurture the next generation of artists.
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Announcement
The 2025 NY Art Book Fair Returns to MoMA PS1
This year’s fair features over 250 local and international artists’ book publishers, alongside a full weekend of programs and performances from September 11 through 14.
News
Smithsonian Latino Gallery Quietly Closes for Nine Months
As Trump goes after the institution, a temporary space for the National Museum of the American Latino closed ahead of schedule in preparation for America’s 250th programming.
Art Review
Adrift in Betye Saar’s Crepuscular Dreamscape
The artist’s site-specific commission at the Huntington makes you feel like you’re floating in space, or suspended underwater.
News
World’s Largest Van Gogh Collection Faces Uncertain Future
The artist’s namesake museum in Amsterdam says it will be forced to shutter if the government doesn’t raise its subsidies for sustainability and repairs.
Community
Required Reading
This week: The ethics of design, Noguchi Museum workers speak out, Native communities on the closure of “Alligator Alcatraz,” Letterboxd woes, music classes in Gaza, and more.