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ArtRx NYC
It's here again, and the art volk will be descending on New York for Armory Week.
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Tracing the Origins of San Francisco's Gentrification
You might call the South of Market area in San Francisco the cradle of gentrification.
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Teachable Moments from a Conference on Art and Education
Last month, ART21 hosted an intricately interdisciplinary affair: Creative Chemistries: Radical Practices for Art + Education, a conference designed to probe the intersections of art and education.
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Portraits of Prisoners in Gold Leaf and Tar
When artist Titus Kaphar began searching for his father's prison records in 2011, he found the mugshots of 99 other black, incarcerated men who shared his dad's first and last name.
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Bedlam's New Museum Looks Beyond Madness
The name Bedlam is so evocative of chaos and madness, the real history of one of the world's oldest institutions for the treatment of mental illness often gets detached from its public presence.
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"BitchCoin" Currency Challenges the Way We Buy Art
A new project from Sarah Meyohas and the Brooklyn-based Where gallery explores the future of art in a world where both art and the market are increasingly immaterial.
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Explosive Watercolors and Collages, Subtly Contained
Looking at Marcia Kure’s watercolors and collages, the word that comes to mind is “torque.”
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Quickly Aging Here: The 2015 Triennial
After six years and three installments, is the New Museum’s Triennial entering middle age? An odd question for an exhibition devoted to “early-career artists,” as the museum’s press release describes them.
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Dining with Contemporary Artists and Designers
What does your favorite artist like to eat for dinner?
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The Intimate Duality of Human Behavior
HUDSON, New York — Surrounded by Thomas Micchelli's works in the John Davis Gallery yesterday, with my back to the gallery's back wall, I became transfixed by two paintings that throbbed with a rich purple that glowed as if lit by the winter dusk.
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From Creepy Kids' Books to Puckish Erotica, an Illustrator's Improbable Oeuvre
French illustrator Tomi Ungerer has worn many hats, none of them obviously compatible with any of the others. A cartoonist, political satirist, and illustrator of both children’s books and sadomasochistic erotica, he has designed a cat-shaped kindergarten for a German school and condoms for a French
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Astrological Aesthetics: March 2015 Horoscopes
Welcome to Hyperallergic's new horoscopes — offering astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.