Art
Exceeding Capacity
Tiger Strikes Asteroid doesn’t necessarily offer a new way to see art, but the work by Danielle Cartier, Kasey Toomey, Alex Snowden, and Christopher Richard shows the promise of this through collective activity.
Weekend
Art
The Desire for the Unattainable: Myron Stout’s Paintings and Drawings
Myron Stout, who was born in Denton, Texas, in 1908, made an early decision to be a painter but didn’t hit his stride until the late 1940s, after he had served in World War II.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Shepard Fairey's Inauguration graphics, defeating gerrymandering, artists at Standing Rock, swarm technology in the US military, ACT UP vs. Trump, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Fear
"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."
Books
Reader’s Diary: David Graeber’s 'Debt: The First 5,000 Years'
It's no wonder that few things inspire as much persistent paranoia as banking. But a little paranoia might not be such a bad thing.
Art
Enduring Voices: The Legacy of Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff was a producer, not a star, nor even the type of director who gave himself an occasional cameo. History is not much good for remembering producers, despite the fact that no shows go on without them.
Art
The Difficulty of Getting the News: Lois Dodd, Sally Hazelet Drummond, and the Narrative of Exclusion
What the exhibition of Drummond and Dodd proves is that the art world was more diverse in the 1960s than has been told.
Art
No Point of View Is the Best View of All: Artists Working Between 1952–65, Many of Whom Are Forgotten
If 1962 is the dividing line between one art world and what we seem to have inherited, Inventing Downtown will bring you back to the period before the “art Establishment crossed the street.”
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Various Dismal Futures
At the time I made this drawing in July, I was using existing narratives of future dysfunction to begin to consider the unthinkable.
Art
Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies
Hyperallergic Weekend presents a new drawing series about where we are now.
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From Curiosity to Institution: The Outsider Art Fair at 25
The 2017 edition of New York’s Outsider Art Fair will mark the 25th anniversary of what has become one of the international art market’s most distinctive, lively, and sometimes contentious forums for the presentation of often label-defying forms of artistic expression.
Art
What Lies Beneath: Carl D'Alvia's Buried Meanings
Though he wears his scholarship lightly, Carl D'Alvia is adept at the semaphores of 20th-century sculpture.