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The Competing Politics of the Jamaica Biennial
This year's biennial was a mash-up of claims and interests that played out in four exhibitions grouped under one umbrella.
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Generate Absurd Descriptions for Fictional Artworks
Isabel Kim’s delightful Infinite Artwork Simulator is “a tongue-in-cheek artwork description generator” based on Mira Schor’s musings on “Recipe Art.”
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Laughing at the Jokes on Ancient Greek Vases
An exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum showcases the vessels of the so-called Berlin Painter, highlighting the oft-overlooked comedy in Greek ceramics.
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A Book Festival in Miami’s Little Haiti Seeks to Empower the Community
The Little Haiti Book Festival, now in its fifth year, is an homage to Haiti's culture and historical legacy, both past and present.
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A Field of Lavender Nourished by Trump’s Tweets
A subterranean field of lavender, planted by Martin Roth in Midtown Manhattan, is nurtured by lights that are largely controlled by the President's tweets.
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A Weeklong Performance Festival Devoted to Surprise
From dance and stand-up comedy to rap and performance art, Movement Research's spring festival — titled "surprise! surprise(!) surprise/! surprise" — offers a bit of everything from an impressive range of performers.
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Paintings About the Intersection of Architecture and White Privilege
The emphasis in this series of paintings by Chris Barnard is to highlight the role of institutions of privilege in the perpetuation of racial violence in the United States.
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Astrological Aesthetics: June 2017 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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Performance Artists Probe East Asian Identity and Power Dynamics
As East Asian artists become increasingly visible, we chose to focus on their work at the Itinerant Performance Art Festival, where live art lent itself easily to political concerns.
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Artists Serve Up a Book of Recipes and Conversations at Night Gallery
Salad for President, launching June 3 at Night Gallery, draws connections between the worlds of art and food.
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From Aura Photos to Automatic Writing, an Artist Plumbs the Abyss Between Belief and Disbelief
Susan Hiller’s exhibition at Lisson Gallery approaches the weird and the unusual with illuminating, liberating aplomb.
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Alice Guy-Blaché, the First Woman Filmmaker
Alice Guy-Blaché is recognized as the first woman filmmaker, going back to an 1896 silent short, but her career remains unsung in the history of cinema.