Art
Ten Days of Local Performance Art Throughout Downtown LA
The eclectic programming includes one artist transforming into an alien before our eyes and J-Sette performances on the streets.
Test 2018 posts
Poetry
Two Poems by Harmony Holiday
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Harmony Holiday for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
The Hits and Misses of Santa Fe's Much-Anticipated SITE Biennial
Despite curatorial missteps, 2018's SITE Santa Fe contributes to an ongoing and timely conversation in the Americas about identity, displacement, and colonialism.
In Brief
Studio Museum in Harlem and DC Arts High School Receive Historic Gift of Over 650 Contemporary Works
The late civil rights activist and Black arts patron Peggy Cooper Cafritz has bestowed the "largest gift ever made of contemporary art by artists of African descent" to the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
Announcement
Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking on View at Americas Society
The exhibition is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gabriela Rangel, and Asad Raza. On view through January 12.
Opinion
Melania Trump's Colonial Romp Through Egypt
In a photoshoot in front of the Egyptian pyramids, Melania Trump reminds us that fashion is political.
Art
A Contemporary Art Museum Reopens With Promise in Toronto
Rapidly rising rents led to the shuttering of the former MOCCA, pushing curator David Liss to find a new building for an expanded mission.
Art
Bringing Back Op with a World of Zigzags, Sunbursts, and Bullseyes
Liz Collins' new solo show at LMAK Gallery is full of dynamic dualities: works both hard and soft, chaotic and orderly, three-dimensional and flat.
Opinion
Was Banksy's Recent Stunt a Hoax?
Skeptics have offered their own theories about the controversy, some denying it was even shredded at all.
News
Why Activists Across South Asia Are Demanding Justice for Photojournalist Shahidul Alam
Ongoing protests in Nepal, India, and beyond are demanding the release of photojournalist Shahidul Alam, who was arrested and jailed in August for critiquing the Bangladeshi government.
News
Nan Goldin Is Her Own Worst Critic in Surprise TV Cameo with James Franco
Last week's episode of HBO's The Deuce included the artist as an unnamed and unimpressed critic of an exhibition, which actually featured her own photos.
Performance
A Newer, Queerer Rendition of Oscar Wilde's Salomé
Oscar Wilde's oft-misunderstood, rarely-performed tragedy about the beheading of St. John the Baptist gets new life at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn.