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Confronting Museumgoers with Gun Violence in the US
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — To say that gun violence is an affliction of American society is a radical understatement, whether you go by the statistics or the frequency of mass shooting incidents.
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A Video Game That Tailors Its Terrors to Your Anxiety
"Go to your happy place," the game attendant told me as the digital kitchen on my screen filled with milk and I was drowning.
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Mapping Gentrification and Urban Resistance in Istanbul
ROME — "Urbanization has always been a class phenomenon of some sort," David Harvey writes in Rebel Cities.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, see a forgotten masterpiece of Japanese animation, spot murals on a bike ride through East LA, catch influential Mexican artist Pedro Friedeberg's exhibition before it closes, and more.
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In ‘Transparent,’ the Dangers of Apathy in Weimar Germany’s Queer Culture
They’re on top of the world: partying, popular, queer kids with everything going for them. This is not 1960s San Francisco or 1980s New York or today’s internet communities: it’s 1933 in Weimar Berlin.
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Gleaming Visions of Space from an Artist–Cum–Astronaut in Training
Michael Najjar has his sights set on being the first civilian artist to travel to space.
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A New Database Will Document the Burial Sites of US Slaves
A new project is giving slave burial grounds in the United States something they've long been deprived of: visibility.
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The Woman Who Found Abstraction Before the Modernists
LONDON — The first thought that struck me about the Serpentine Gallery’s exhibition of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, Painting the Unseen, was: Thank goodness — finally a solo show starring a female artist!
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ArtRx NYC
This week, check out two film festivals — one devoted to contemporary African movies, the other to experimental, found-footage films — or consider art in unusual places — like Green-Wood Cemetery, the storefronts of Bay Ridge, and a patch of land off the BQE.
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Astrological Aesthetics: May 2016 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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Two Lebanese Artists Reconstruct an Annihilated History
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — The show looks to answer the questions: How can we produce memory out of situations in which history has been annihilated? How can archeologists reconstruct sites in-situ where all the elements have gone missing?
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An Artist Visits Paris After the Bombs
The Iranian artist Arash Hanaei had been working since 2008 on trying to grasp how a city can be a stable entity, a permanent place of residence.