News
Where Do the NYC Mayoral Candidates Stand on the Arts?
The recovery challenges facing New York’s next mayor are immense.
Featured
Art
The Journey Behind Liza Lou’s Behemoth Beaded Kitchen
Today, “Kitchen” and its themes of women’s work and thankless labor are as sharp and fresh as ever.
Art
An Artist Between Two Worlds
Nearly 50 years ago, Choong Sup Lim left South Korea for New York City in search of freedom in art and life.
Art
On Grieving and Mourning With Art
Confronted with a new national consciousness around racial inequity, two New York City art exhibitions focus on mourning with varying degrees of success.
Art
India’s Vibrant and Idiosyncratic Truck Art
The graceful art form has a long history, but is currently under threat of disappearing.
Art
Hannah Wilke's and Eva Hesse’s Irreverent Experiments in Abstraction
Erotic Abstraction revels in the subversive absurdity shared by both artists.
Art
How a Map Fueled Perceptions of Asians as an Exoticized “Other”
“Peoples of the Pacific” is one of six murals that was displayed at the influential “Pageant of the Pacific” Golden Gate International Exposition.
Art
Why Do AI-generated Portraits Fail at Realism?
Why do these portraits almost always fall short of being lively or authentic?
Art
Jasper Johns: Hiding in Plain Sight
Johns has repeatedly used one motif whose source has never been identified.
Interview
Jia Zhangke Talks About His Quest to Document a Rapidly Disappearing China
Hyperallergic interviews Jia about Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue and finding people to testify about their experiences in rural villages over the past seven decades.
Interview
Gazan Artist Speaks About a Lifetime of Trauma and War
“We live in constant fear of censorship. No artist should have that fear,” says 21-year-old artist Malak Mattar.
Art
Revealing the Prickly Side of Imperial “Soft Power”
A collaboration between Carriage Trade and Rectangle, Hearts and Minds analyzes the deceptive repackaging of Western imperialism.