Interview
In Miami's Little Haiti, a Muralist Fights Gentrification One Wall at a Time
MIAMI — In late May, the City of Miami Commission voted unanimously to designate Little Haiti as “Little Haiti.”
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Art
LED Street Art Lights Up a Dark, Dodgy Alley in Philadelphia
Percy Street in South Philadelphia is an abnormality in the city's orderly grid, curving between South 9th Street and Reed Street, its seclusion making it a haven for littering and more illicit activities.
Art
Hieronymus Bosch’s Worlds that Could Have Been
MADRID — Commemorating the fifth centenary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch, Madrid's El Museo del Prado has arranged an exhibition that, according to its catalogue, displays "the greatest number of Bosch’s works ever to be assembled."
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A $2.5 Million Statue Casts a Long Shadow on the Bronx Museum’s Cuban Initiatives
Sometime early next year, a monumental sculpture of the Cuban writer and national hero José Martí is expected to rise on Havana's busy Paseo del Prado.
Opinion
Black Women Artists Bear Witness in Red
First you see red. Red halts the traffic. An undulant corpus of red women crosses the Bowery and flows toward the New Museum, breaks into an arc and then a circle
Art
ArtRx NYC: Fall Guide 2016
The autumnal art season is upon us, and we're bringing you Hyperallergic’s New York Art Guide for fall 2016.
Art
The Brutality of Little Bighorn, as Seen by Someone Who Was There
TULSA, Okla. — Decades after the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, Stephen Standing Bear, who participated in the tumultuous engagement, recalled its chaos: "I could see Indians charging all around me. Then I could see the soldiers and Indians all mixed up and there were so many guns going off that
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In Wake of Protests, Pacific Northwest College of Art Suspends a Master’s Program
Six days before the start of the fall semester at Pacific Northwest College of Art, a group of Master's candidates and professors received an email from the dean of students informing them that their program was suspended and they would not be teaching or studying as planned.
Art
The Party We Are All Invited To
Jessica Stockholder lives in a contingent domain, which means it is very much like the one where most of us live.
Music
Prince's 'Sign o’ the Times,' Part I (A Solitary Genius)
For an ostensible masterpiece, Prince’s Sign o’ the Times (1987) is suspiciously lacking in overt concept.
Opinion
Monty Python Goes to the Art Museum
Given that so much of Monty Python's humor was predicated on testing and twisting codes of civility and decorum, it's surprising their Flying Circus didn't alight more frequently in that most stuffily decorous setting, the art museum.
Opinion
Kara Walker’s Puppets Dance in a New Music Video for Santigold
Even if you're familiar with artist Kara Walker’s signature shadow puppets, you've probably never seen them looking as cheerful as they do in electro-pop artist Santigold’s new music video.