News
Tompkins Halloween Dog Parade Returns With Biggest Crowd Ever
The event drew around 600 pawed participants and 15,000 spectators, with pup costumes including a lobster, a subway car, and even NYC’s iconic “rat czar.”
New York
News
El Museo del Barrio Accused of Removing Work With Palestinian Flag
Artists Odalys Burgoa and Roy Baizan say they were notified that their Día de los Muertos altar would be removed from public display due to its inclusion of the Palestinian flag.
Art
After Flood Damage, Gowanus Artists Carry On
In the wake of last month’s storm, Gowanus Open Studios plowed ahead, using the event to fundraise for artists whose work was damaged.
Art
Max Beckmann’s Singular Path
His attitude toward his fellow humans ricocheted between admiration and affection, frustration, fury, and horror — at times all in a single painting.
Performance
Voicing the Pain and Resilience of Burkina Faso Refugees
Olivier Tarpaga’s "Once the dust settles" produces a tension between horror and beauty as the piece explores motherhood, womanhood, and feminism under threat of overpowering subjugation.
Film
New Film Spotlights NYC’s Pigeon-Rearing Subculture
“Homing,” premiering next month in Manhattan, tells the story of an emotionally volatile pigeon rearer named Juan.
Art
Emanoel Araújo’s World-Making Art
The relentless dynamism of Araújo’s sculptures and assemblages stir up a visual rhythm that is at once elegant and entropic.
Art
Highlights From Brooklyn’s Sunset Park Open Studios
Annesta Le’s ethereal neon sculptures, Eun Young Choi's hand-cut vinyl works, and other standouts from this weekend’s event.
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Announcement
Bard Graduate Center in NYC: Open Houses for MA in Material Culture, Design History, Decorative Arts
Meet faculty and current students, and learn about the admissions and financial aid process at an open house on October 29, November 19, or December 3.
Art
What to Do With Our Anger?
In painting, Gandy Brodie could find moments of beauty and defenselessness, as well as the endurance and will to survive, despite a difficult life.
Art
Who Goes to See Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”?
On a fall afternoon, Hyperallergic found locals and out-of-towners newly enchanted by the iconic painting, and some seeing it for the very first time.
News
A New York Museum's House of Bones
The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose.