8+ mon, 3+ week ago (223+ words) See socially and politically engaged art, Trenton Doyle Hancock paired with Philip Guston, plus geometric abstraction and some medieval treasures. The winners of this year's Best Documentary Feature Film urged world leaders to "stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people." Affordable Art Fair offers something for everyone and a place to find confidence in your taste. A glass sample collected from the skull of a young adult victim of the eruption in Herculaneum yielded evidence of human brain matter. With generous, sharp humor, Hancock and Guston show us through their art how venial and self-deceiving we have become. The US deployed the largest aerial bombardment in history during the Vietnam War. Here, the artist tells the plaintive story of those unexploded weapons. Alternately ominous and transcendent, Doug Aitken's panoramic Lightscape cycles through scenes of human movement enthralled by highways and…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago (206+ words) Wadee Alfayoumi, who was murdered by his family's landlord in 2023 in an anti-Muslim hate crime, is remembered in a new sculpture in his hometown. Her Nature Studies invoke the promise of something greater, a direct line from the material world to the spiritual experience that art is presumed to offer. Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images advances new research and preservation efforts. On view at ICA Philadelphia from July 12 through December 7. Dutch street artist Judith de Leeuw said she created the piece in response to the United States's cruel immigration policies. Gerard Wagner's metaphysical landscapes, Michelle Silver's thundering abstract frenzy, a group exhibition of Chinese women artists, and more. Throughout her work, we see women attempting to free themselves from the entanglements of patriarchy. Double Take brings together the culminating work of third-year MFA candidates at the Bard Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago (446+ words) LONDON " How best to paint the scorned, the marginalized, the lost to view?" Despite the fact that Millet was a hero to van Gogh for the way he drew attention to the nobility and heroism of the seldom howling underdog, the man himself has been little on public view in London in recent years. In fact, Life on the Land at the National Gallery is his first significant outing for half a century. It is well worth the wait. Millet himself was born into relative prosperity. His family farm was in the hilly, lush countryside surrounding the village of Gruchy in Normandy. From there he traveled south to the flat plain of Barbizon, not far from Paris." This exhibition is relatively modest in size. The walls are painted a rich, deep blue, which helps to vivify this fairly compact gathering…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago (713+ words) The first volume focuses on his earlier writings that mark his desire to renew African art discourse to rewrite histories. The second volume of this two-volume set starts in 2006 and charts a time when his influence was at its zenith. Taken from us far too early, Enwezor's writings are indispensable tools for those who want to continue the important work of reformulating the world of art with justice and equity in mind. "Hrag Vartanian Buy Volume 1 and Volume 1 on Bookshop | Duke University Press, August 5, 2025 Buy on Bookshop | Princeton Architectural Press, September 9, 2025 Buy on Bookshop | Drawn & Quarterly, September 16, 2025 Like his life partner, Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg helped chart new realities for queer artists who were far more marginalized up until then. This book is a celebration of one part of an artist's practice that is finally getting the attention it deserves. "HV…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago (605+ words) White Rabbit?" That"s such an obvious Jefferson Airplane choice! I would have picked Two Heads." Those were my first thoughts when I checked out the playlist for Sixties Surreal, a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. If you haven"t encountered an exhibition playlist yet, it"s similar to those mixtapes some of us made in high school: carefully curated, self-aware, and designed to capture a mood. In fact, I"m willing to bet that any curator who"s created a playlist was once a teenager with discerning taste in vinyl records and some mixtape experience. " Hyperallergic: For readers who have never encountered a playlist for an exhibition, can you talk about what they are and why a show would have one? Dan Nadel: I suppose a playlist can be any number of things: a soundtrack…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago (716+ words) Every year, two dozen artists from around the world travel to the United States to participate in a month-long summer residency at the nonprofit arts center Art Omi. The highly competitive program is held at the organization's 120-acre campus in Ghent, New York, where it also hosts residencies focused on architecture, dance, music, and writing. This summer, five artists " Yumzhana Sui from Buryatia, Michel Lafleur from Haiti, Boluwatife Victoria Lawal and Samuel Olayombo from Nigeria, and Patrick Ruganintwali from Rwanda" " had intended to participate in the residency, but their visas were denied. It's a challenge the organization says it faces every year, but fears could become more widespread under the Trump administration." "We have artists who have been denied multiple years in a row and then are admitted," Jess Maxwell, Art Omi's communications director, told Hyperallergic. This was the case…...

10+ mon, 4+ day ago (436+ words) We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. As $30 tickets for admission become the new normal across several New York institutions, a new list of museums and cultural spaces offering free or pay-what-you-wish entry proves that you can still enjoy the lifeblood of the city's arts scene without sacrificing a day's wages. DCLA's list is sectioned by borough " and Manhattan takes the lead with over 45 institutions and venues that have committed to free or suggested admissions throughout, and 17 that have scheduled days or time slots for free or discounted access. Brooklyn comes in second place with 13 spaces that always offer free or suggested admission, Queens follows in third place with nine, Staten Island with five, and the Bronx with three…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago (750+ words) A Bangkok exhibition exploring state violence and resistance, which included artists from Tibet and Hong Kong, was altered under pressure by officials at the Chinese Embassy in Thailand. In an email sent to the artists reviewed by Hyperallergic, the curators of the exhibition said that the show was modified to protect diplomatic relations between the two countries. The news was first reported by Reuters. Some of the censored works reference China's treatment of Uyghurs and other primarily Muslim ethnic groups. The 10-artist exhibition, Constellation of Complicity: Visualising the Global Machinery of Authoritarian Solidarity opened last month at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC) and is set to close this October. Bangkok's Metropolitan Authority, a public agency, was the exhibition's main supporter, according to emails reviewed by Hyperallergic. In an email sent to artists, BACC staff said that works by…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago (822+ words) In a new interview with Hyperallergic, Erik af Klint, board chair of the Hilma af Klint Foundation and the artist's great-grandnephew, doubled down on his stance that the late Swedish artist's body of work should be removed from institutional and commercial curation entirely." Citing a clause in one of the foundation's statutes, Erik initially told the Swedish news outlet Dagens Nyheter that Hilma's creations can't be classified as artwork but rather as transcriptions of her communications with the spiritual world, arguing that these should be held in a temple only open to spiritual seekers that meet the criteria set by the foundation. The statute goes on to state that "the board shall take care to make the work available only to individuals who have a sympathetic attitude toward the foundation's purpose and who will not misuse it." Erik, who became…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago (677+ words) Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, ManhattanThrough September 27 "[The drawings] attest to the persistence of nature in the face of climate change, war, and humanity's increasing disconnection from the Earth." "NH Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThrough September 30 "[Jansson] recognized the wisdom of children and the invaluable role of art in nurturing imagination and empathy." "Lakshmi Rivera Amin "For decades now, Ohio-born, New York-based artist Jennie C. Jones has been translating between music and the physical world " responding to the legacies of Minimalism, modernism, and the Black avant-garde." "Lisa Yin Zhang Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, ManhattanThrough October 26 "If we are to learn from his work " as well we should " we must understand that "nonconformity' is not, and cannot be, a solo venture.Isabella Segalovich Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, ConnecticutThrough October 26 Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway,…...