Guide
10 Art Events for Juneteenth Joy in NYC
David Hammons-inspired freedom flag workshops, a community art mosaic, late hours at the Bronx Museum, and more activities to mark the contemplative holiday.
New York
Feature
Kim Dacres Sculpts Resilience in Rubber
The artist, who uses scavenged auto parts, is concerned not just with materials but with what they reveal about the worlds they inhabit.
News
Adorable Duck Family Steals Hearts at Frick Museum
What the Frick? More like what the duck!
Interview
Claire Valdez Wants to Be Your Artist in Congress
The New York State assemblywoman, who is running for a seat in the House of Representatives, spoke with Hyperallergic about her life as a painter, political origin story, and big plans for Washington.
Feature
Kaleidoscopic Subway Mosaics Celebrate Flatbush’s Theater History
At the Church Avenue station, Christopher Myers’s glass-tiled panels explore the rich legacy of vaudeville and Afro-Caribbean carnival culture.
News
Whitney Names New Director of Independent Study Program
Soyoung Yoon’s appointment comes after the museum canceled a Palestine-related performance and suspended the program for a year.
Guide
30 Must-See Art Shows in New York City This Summer
Pierre Huyghe’s brain activity-inspired dreamscapes, Orientalism at The Met, a menagerie of mystical animals, and so much more.
Feature
Celebrating the Knicks Win, One Stitch at a Time
The textile artist known as Cheeks embraced a wave of city pride at his now-viral Fort Greene embroidery pop-up.
Queer Elders
Sarah Schulman’s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction
“Nothing stops me except the publishing industry,” quipped the novelist and AIDS historian, who cut her teeth as an East Village journalist writing for queer and feminist papers.
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Samia Halaby
At her longtime studio in Tribeca, the Palestinian-American painter discussed her experimentation with color and how she “accidentally stepped into abstraction.”
News
Largest-Ever Arthur Jafa Survey Coming to New Museum
The two-floor show will premiere new works alongside the artist’s iconic pieces, such as "Love is the Message, The Message is Death."
Art Review
An Artist Duo’s Haven of Synthetic Hair
Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez steamed, cut, and sewed together lengths of hair by hand to create an ecosystem of biomorphic sculptures.