News
Could This Be Humanity’s Earliest Recorded Kiss?
A Danish scientist-couple has pushed back the date of the earliest smooch by more than a millennium.
Featured
Art
Tony Bechara Creates Chaos With Grids
Bechara’s grid paintings are dazzling, engaging, and unsettling, since they undermine any sense of stability that we associate with a grid.
News
MoMA Workers Urge Museum to Address Israel’s Attacks on Palestine
“We respectfully urge our institution to consider the impact of its silence,” reads the workers’ open letter.
Art
Inside the World’s Largest Comics and Cartoons Collection
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University is an ultra-accessible shrine to the genre.
News
10 Arrested in Protest Outside Brooklyn Museum
Around 300 people gathered at the museum to decry Israel's bombardment of Gaza and the suppression of pro-Palestine voices.
News
MoMA Shutters as 500+ Protesters Infiltrate Atrium in Support of Palestine
Organizers unveiled a banner that read “MoMA Trustees Fund Genocide, Apartheid, and Settler Colonialism.”
Art
The Private Life of Paño Arte
When I first encountered paño arte in an art institution I was torn in my assessment of whether or not it belonged in a museum.
Interview
Spike Lee on His Collection of WWII Propaganda Posters
The film director and New York icon discusses the trials and triumphs behind the posters featured in his Brooklyn Museum exhibition.
Art
The Met Celebrates Women Designers Without Enough Reflection
Women Dressing Women is trying to be a celebration of neglected designers and sewists, but does not offer a critical reflection on how they have been excluded.
Books
8 Art Books to Read This February
Samia Halaby, the collaborative history of photography, ancient cave paintings, shapeshifting flocks of birds, and more for your art reading list.
Books
When Whistler Sued Ruskin
Paul Thomas Murphy’s Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art provides a snapshot of the founding litigation of modern art.
Guide
Hyperallergic Spring 2024 New York Art Guide
A guide to this season’s museum exhibitions and art events in and around New York City, including the Whitney Biennial.