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A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine
This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in Copenhagen, Los Angeles, and the Bronx.
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At Rome’s Quadriennale, Out With the Old and In With Historical Interventions
Fuori proposes a reinterpretation of Italian visual arts from the 1960s to the present day, affording greater prominence to women and young artists.
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Art Heals: After a Sexual Assault, an Artist Paints Women Who Can’t Be Knocked Down
It took me years to find the language to tell this story.
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A Doomscroll Antidote: Somber and Wistful GIFs to Help Process the Lockdown
GIF pioneers Sally McKay and Lorna Mills collaborate on an exclusive Hyperallergic art commission.
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Looking Inwards: Quarantine Self-Portraits From India
For some photographers, they became their own muse, as self-portraits became a coping mechanism to process emotions during the prolonged quarantine.
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A Sleek, Whale-shaped Observatory to Watch Marine Life
The stunning site is planned to open at the tip of Norway’s Andoya Island, about 186 miles north of the Arctic circle, in 2022.
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The Contours of Black American Life, According to Gordon Parks
Viewing Parks’s photographs in 2021 offers stark, graceful reminders of the ongoing fight for civil rights.
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A Glimpse of the Mail Art Made During the Pandemic
In Long Beach, arts institutions commissioned mail art by more than 80 South Bay artists and illustrators.
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When Nick Cave’s Truth Was Told in Kinderhook, New York
A local zoning appeals board hearing will soon decide whether Cave’s colossal textual work, “Truth Be Told,” is art protected by the First Amendment, or rather a sign that may be regulated by law.
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Required Reading
* Earlier this month Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein wrote about the creative class and how eulogies may be premature: While this system produces culture, no one is paid enough, and the rent climbs ever upward. I once worked an art fair with a kindly but grizzled art handler who told me that he’
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Drawings of Migration and Pandemic
In her dozens of pastels on handmade paper, Mie Yim seems to start each one over, never attempting to make a variation on a theme.
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Altoon Sultan’s Powerful Challenge
Sultan’s works implicitly reject the corporate scale of the Minimalists in favor of a domestic and intimate space