Guide
Your Guide to a Sexy, Artsy, Non-Boring Valentine’s Day in NYC
A Brooklyn zine fair, an exhibition on sex and cults, and other activities to spend the day with your lover, your polycule, or just yourself.
Valentine's Day
Books
8 Art Books on Love to Read This Valentine’s Day
Letter-writing, art historical affairs, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, and more artsy titles on love in all its forms.
Art
Why Do All My Hinge Options Look Like Guys From Old Paintings?
As it turns out, men have been posing with fish for hundreds of years.
Art
Historical Maps to the Heart Help Chart Your Way to Love
Why bother with the so-called Gulf of America when you can dip in the Bay of Bliss or Cape Content?
Art
15 Art History-Inspired Valentine’s Day Cards
From polycules and break-ups to situationships and forbidden love, Hyperallergic has you covered this February 14.
News
Fighting HIV Stigma With Valentine's Day Cards
Organized by Visual AIDS, “Love Positive Women” is a project that distributes hundreds of hand-crafted Valentine's Day cards to women living with HIV.
Art
Cupid Shoots Through Millennia of Art
The god of love and desire has fascinated and inspired artists since antiquity.
Comics
Work, You Are My Valentine
Thinking about you keeps me up at night.
Art
See Films About Love in Time for Valentine's Day
BAM hosts a new film series, the first segment of which begins this week, with the theme of love.
Art
My Unexpected Valentine's Day with Louise Bourgeois
On my first trip to New York in 1998, I looked up Bourgeois in the phone book and called her. To my surprise, she answered and invited me to her home on Valentine's Day.
Art
The Peculiar History of Love in Valentine Ephemera from the 18th Century to Today
Nowadays, store-bought Valentines cards may dominate the ways we tell people we love them in writing, but in the past the diversity of notes reveals different ideas about love.
Comics
If Famous Artists Made Valentines Cards
There's an abundance of missed marketing opportunities in these cards.