• Sign In
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • Sign In
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
Skip to content
Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic

Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Smack Mellon

Posted inArt

Two Sparse Brooklyn Exhibitions Probe the Elemental Forces of Life

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk November 3, 2022November 3, 2022

Things have their own power and agency in the artist’s installation and humans are part of a complex world of life forms and materials.

Posted inArt

Tamara Kostianovsky Envisions a Whimsical Slaughterhouse

Avatar photo by Louis Bury October 20, 2021October 26, 2021

The animal carcass sculptures are gruesome yet their materials — the artist’s own discarded clothing — lend them some gentleness.

Posted inArt

Imagining Our Climate Future

Avatar photo by Louis Bury August 7, 2021August 6, 2021

Speculations about climate change by an array of artists feel eerily probable, if not already real.

Posted inArt

The Trouble with Capitalist Utopias

by John Yau July 24, 2021July 23, 2021

Maybe a sense of belonging is a thing of the past, a sign of privilege.

Posted inArt

Art for a Time of Uncertainty

Avatar photo by Joy Sperling April 25, 2020April 24, 2020

Jude Tallichet’s art is a reminder that, although our world has changed, something weird and wonderful may await us on the other side.

Posted inArt

Searching for Humor in America’s Machismo Freefall

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 6, 2018August 6, 2018

Laugh Back’s comedic timing is so regrettably tardy that its punchlines about Trumpism and American masculinity fail to land.

Posted inSponsored

On May 5, Attend Smack Mellon’s 2018 Kentucky Derby Party and Art Auction

by Smack Mellon April 10, 2018October 10, 2018

For more than 20 years, Smack Mellon has supported emerging, under-recognized mid-career and women artists in the creation and exhibition of new and ambitious work.

Posted inArt

Best of 2017: Our Top 15 Brooklyn Art Shows

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic December 19, 2017January 2, 2018

From project spaces off the beaten track to nonprofits in Dumbo, galleries in Bushwick, and the Brooklyn Museum, there was so much strong work in the borough this year.

Posted inArt

Over Rice, a Conversation About Race at Smack Mellon

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino August 1, 2017

On August 3, Dominique Duroseau will host the participatory performance “Rap on Race with Rice,” which revolves around one activity: separating black and white rice.

Posted inArt

Artistic Responses to the Systemic Inequalities in US Education

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney July 27, 2017July 28, 2017

For this Smack Mellon exhibition, artists were given textual prompts regarding education, particularly how it relates to the historical struggles for social equity and justice.

Posted inArt

Considering the Environmental Damage Done by Art Fairs

Avatar photo by Zachary Small October 18, 2016October 20, 2016

Built with the collected detritus of art fairs, The Fair Housing Project illustrates just how much good material is thrown away once the tents fall.

Posted inOpinion

How to Tell the Difference Between Propaganda and Art

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney August 5, 2016September 26, 2017

At a round-table discussion at Smack Mellon gallery, convened on July 27 by Hyperallergic and the gallery, the issue of the distinction between propaganda and art was in focus.

Posts navigation

1 2 Older posts
Hyperallergic
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Home
  • Latest
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • About
  • Support Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Submissions
  • Careers
© 2023 Hyperallergic. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy