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The Stories That Carried Me Through 2025
Today, in the spirit of what lies ahead, I want to look back at the work that propelled me forward.
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A Year in Blue and Green
As writers and artists, we say the quiet part out loud, and we leave a record of our refusals and dreams.
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Merry Christmas From Hyperallergic
From Christo's billowing flags to forgotten oral histories, this year reminded me why art matters: it gives voice, refuses erasure, and makes something beautiful from the wreckage.
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Our Powerless 20 List Is Here
Hyperallergic’s annual antidote to the lists of wealthy collectors, royals, and so-called tastemakers just dropped.
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Banksy’s Heartbreaking Christmas Mural
Also: Messy Egyptian gods at The Met, the moral weight of nativity scenes, and the British Museum’s latest “decolonizing” stunt.
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A Letter to Mamdani
An appeal to the mayor-elect from an art worker, a controversial nativity scene in Belgium, and were medieval Psalms elitist?
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The World's Best Art in 2025
Also: A majority of artists struggle with debt, LACMA workers vote overwhelmingly for a union, and a word about the hilarity of evil.
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The Plight of Art Models
Also: the troubling trend of "Crusadercore," pet monkeys in Ancient Rome, and what's really going on in those Vanity Fair photos of Trump's top advisors?
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The Year in Art Films
Also: Is it ever too late to become an artist, and how do Philadelphians feel about their new Calder Gardens?
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Whitney Biennial Artists Revealed
Also: The rise of anti-monarchical art, a First Amendment rally in New York City, a Brutalist icon in Dallas, and more.
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Life According to Sylvia Snowden and Joan Semmel
Also: a graffiti artist's protest against ICE deportations, TIME Magazine's miserable "Person of the Year" cover, and the enduring relevance of W. E. B. Du Bois.
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The Year in Memes
Also, a $117 Picasso, Coreen Simpson's monograph, and Jeff Wall's disorienting photography.