Books
How Victorian Intellectuals Idealized Japan and Its Culture
The undercurrent of the book is the link between Japonisme, aesthetics, and queer culture: Admiring Japan was, in several cases, shorthand for queerness and a dainty homoeroticism.
Review
Art
Subverting the Whiteness of Antiquity
Lily Cox-Richard questions — and successfully subverts — a long-held association between the aesthetic qualities of classical sculptures with physical whiteness.
Music
Megan Thee Stallion, a Hardcore Master of Rap
What makes this music hardcore, a term that has meant many things to many genres, is technical mastery.
Books
Taking Cuteness Seriously
In The Power of Cute Simon May posits that "cute" is a modern-day iteration of the Renaissance archetype of the monstrous.
Books
Finding Oneself in Poetry
The poetry of Ariana Reines outlines a utopian prospect where suffering can be transformed into benevolent light.
Books
Broaching the Subject of Beauty
A look at three paintings from the cusp of the 20th century that make a powerful argument for beauty.
Art
Redefining Identity Through Artists' Books
The works at Center for Book Arts embrace a wide spectrum of emotions and subjectivities outside of White-centric definitions of what an “American” is.
Books
The Rise and Fall of Three Actresses
In Amanda Lee Koe's debut novel, the lives of Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl are intertwined with changes in the world and with one another.
Art
Catching Up with Taiwanese Art
We in America have some idea of what is going in art in China, Japan, and South Korea, but we seem to know almost nothing about contemporary Taiwanese art.
Art
Decode This New Video Game's Story Using Surveillance Footage
The new game Telling Lies turns players into detectives, having them sort through surveillance footage to understand what to look for and find the truth.
Film
Exclusive: Watch the Trailer for the Tour of My First Film
| Cinema Guild and MEMORY have partnered to take My First Film, the hybrid film / performance / artist talk by Zia Anger, on tour across the US and Europe in fall 2019. Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of a new trailer for the film. Read the full story here [https://hyperallergic.com/499482/
Film
The Dark Crystal Is a Marvelously Imaginative Puppet Series
The Netflix prequel series to the 1982 Jim Henson film faithfully embodies both the craft and spirit of the original.