Opinion
A Performa Production Co-opted the Story of a Sex Worker
Without speaking with or even acknowledging the existence of critical members of the sex worker community, Performa has ultimately appropriated migrant sex worker organizing.
New York
Art
An Artist's Radiographic Photos Cast New Light on Chernobyl
Anyone willing to view Alice Miceli's Projeto Chernobyl on its own terms, to see radiography as both a practical tool and a potential art form, will be richly rewarded.
Art
What Ntozake Shange's for colored girls Means in the Age of #MeToo
If you are surprised or stunned by recent revelations concerning sexual assault and harassment, it is because you have been, like most of American culture, ignoring Black women. Shange's choreopoem, now running as a revival at the Public Theater, reminds us to pay attention.
Interview
The Queens Muralist Who's Become a Reddit Favorite
Since a picture of one of his works hit #1 on a NYC subreddit, Rob Anderson has enjoyed a surge of attention for his sunny, colorful art. Hyperallergic talks to him about transitioning from being a shoe salesman to a full-time artist.
Announcement
Anita Shapolsky Gallery Presents CA->NY: Post-War Migration of Abstract Expressionists
This is a group exhibition that features select Bay Area and Los Angeles artists who followed the surge of Abstract Expressionists across the country in the 1950s to participate in their flourishing sister movement: the New York School.
Art
Brice Marden’s Latest Breakthrough
These are the paintings of a modern master for whom dissipation and loss of control have become integrated into the work.
Performance
Yvonne Rainer’s Conceptual Chess, Revived and Restaged
In its first performances since 1965, the recent Performa revival of Rainer’s Parts of Some Sextets prompts considerations of how we can safeguard the choreographer’s visionary oeuvre while staying true to her vision.
Film
Shining the Spotlight on a Broader Swath of Korean Cinema
“Korean Cinema” often refers primarily to celebrated auteurs like Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. A new series at Film at Lincoln Center offers a 21-film corrective, illuminating the wide range of contemporaneous production in South Korea.
Comics
Lost in Reflection With Yayoi Kusama
I could spend a week inside Yayoi Kusama’s infinity room.
Art
Challenging Censorship, One Meticulous Artwork at a Time
Xie's latest exhibition at Asia Society Museum grapples with the long history of book banning in his home country of China.
Announcement
Bard MFA Fall 2019 Information Session Takes Place on Campus on December 6
Join the conversation and learn more about Bard MFA’s unique interdisciplinary low-residency program. Applications are due by January 7, 2020.
Art
Peeling Back the Layers of Alina Szapocznikow's Bodily Sculptures
As a new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth demonstrates, part of Szapocznikow's extraordinary accomplishment as an artist was her ability to represent what many after World War II felt was unrepresentable.