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A Visit to Portland's Graffiti Haven
PORTLAND, Ore. — When I asked artist Rx Skulls where to shoot graffiti and street art when I came to town this past April, his most emphatic suggestion was Taylor Electric.
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An International Stilt-Dancing Collaboration Stands Tall
Laura Anderson Barbata started her international stilt-dancing collaborations in 2001 in Trinidad and Tobago, and since then has forged links between communities in the United States and Mexico. A traveling exhibition focused on the precarious performance practice opened earlier this month at BRIC H
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The Library That Kept Darwin Company for Five Years, Reconstructed
For the five years Charles Darwin spent sailing on the HMS Beagle the budding naturalist had around 404 books for company. After the ship returned to England on October 2, 1836, the books were dispersed, only now reassembled in a digital form.
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What Did Disability Look Like in the 19th Century?
Clubs for ugly people, ear trumpets designed for mourners, mesmerism as a cure — disability in the 19th century reflected all of the Victorian era's oddities and societal changes. Nineteenth-Century Disability: Cultures & Contexts is a digital research archive of text and images on this more overloo
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Join Hyperallergic & Art Southampton for a Summer Hamptons Getaway, July 26
Join Hyperallergic & Art Southampton on Saturday, July 26th for an intimate day trip to the Hamptons. We'll visit the Parrish Museum, tour the Art Southampton Fair, enjoy cocktails in the VIP lounge, and end the art-filled day with dinner and cocktails at the Southampton Social Club.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, we're psyched for the New Museum's Here and Elsewhere opening, the Kurt Vonnegut reading at the Housing Works Bookstore, Surrealist shorts in Williamsburg, and the Ray Johnson mail art show at MoMA. And just a reminder that it is your last chance to see Louise Lawler at Metro Pictures.
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A Demographic Breakdown of the World's 200 Top Art Collectors
Hyperallergic has taken it on ourselves to crunch the numbers and scan the demographics of ARTnews magazine's top 200 art collectors in the world.
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Pablo Neruda Goes for a Walk, 41 Years After His Death
"It so happens I am sick of being a man," Pablo Neruda wrote in his 1933 poem "Walking Around."
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Frank Gehry Goes Underground in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — With all of the gratuitous snark surrounding the recent work of Frank O. Gehry, the expansion and modernization of the Philadelphia Museum of Art will most likely glide under the radar of his usual detractors.
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The Birth and Education of Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago, arguably the world’s best known Feminist artist, continues to fiercely divide opinion. Her detractors accuse her work of being simplistic and singleminded, while loyalists praise her unwavering activism. The artist has fostered a reputation for being independent and uncompromising.
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Using Beauty to Examine Ugly Political Truths
Beauty has long occupied an inferior rank in the modern art world. At best, it’s deemed inconsequential — at worst, shallow. But this puritanical sentiment may be misguided, if two video works on view at the Asia Society are any indication.
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Running Numbers: The Conceptual Minimalism of Monika Wulfers
Public perception of the history of minimalist and conceptual art is dominated by male artists working out of New York City: Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, and so on. A recent 2014 show of neon “drawings” by the German-American artist Monika Wulfers at th