How Memes Unravel the Image of Trump as Martyrhyperallergic.com While cultural critics slobber over the former president’s media savviness, meme-makers are here to burst their disingenuous bubble.
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The Serious Joy of Joyce J. Scott’s Beaded Arthyperallergic.com The decorative allure of Scott’s textile and beaded creations seduces viewers into her sharp critiques of racism, misogyny, and other social ills.
The Lost Art of Handwritinghyperallergic.com A new book provides a glimpse into how some of the most resoundingly famous writers actually, you know, wrote.
Brazilian Conceptual Artist Steals Historic Coin From the British Museumhyperallergic.com Ilê Sartuzi replaced a silver coin with a replica and deposited the original in a museum donation box in a commentary on cultural theft.
Istanbul Church Reopens as Mosque With Medieval Mosaics and Frescoes Intacthyperallergic.com After a four-year wait, the Chora Church reopened as the Kariye Mosque with its treasured works of Christian art open to public view.
Käthe Kollwitz’s Profoundly Human Arthyperallergic.com As images of violence have become more ubiquitous, it’s a devastating testament to Kollwitz's artistry that her works are still so moving.
Why Are We Celebrating Dutch Imperialism in 2024?hyperallergic.com An exhibition relishes in the opulence of the objects produced by Dutch globalism while disingenuously acknowledging its destruction on unpictured shores.
Seven Women Offer Alternative Ways of Relating to the Earthhyperallergic.com These artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Peru, Sudan, and Palestine use soil as a different kind of building medium in their works.
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St. Louis Arts Center Scraps Pro-Palestinian Exhibition, Calling It “Antisemitic”hyperallergic.com The show at Craft Alliance included a bowl with a keffiyeh pattern, watermelon imagery, and the phrase “from the river to the sea.”
Hugh Hayden Should Cut the Craphyperallergic.com The artist’s latest show belongs in the toilet — and that’s exactly where he put it.
Xingzi Gu’s Dreamlike Portraits of Youthhyperallergic.com The tension between moments of quiet joy and inevitable calamity in Gu's ethereal portraits is riveting.
Inside Brooklyn’s Very Own Immersive “Clown Cult”hyperallergic.com The bi-monthly variety show gathers both newcomers and veterans of the craft to help participants discover “the power in cringe.”
Art History Majors Face Highest Unemployment Rates, Report Showshyperallergic.com But other data shows that art history and art degrees are still popular.
It’s Time for Chryssa’s Neon Art to Shinehyperallergic.com Chryssa, it turns out, did everything that the famous Pop and New Media artists did, simultaneously or, in some instances, first.
Artist's Monument to Women Beheaded at University of Houstonhyperallergic.com It’s unclear whether the attack on Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture is related to protests by anti-abortion groups, which previously denounced it as “satanic.”
What’s Up With Those Park Avenue Sculptures of Men Missing Body Parts?hyperallergic.com Bruno Catalano’s bronze figures are a devastatingly hyper-literal and heavy-handed interpretation of loss.
Healing Japanese Art for the End Timeshyperallergic.com A show of Japanese art at The Met suggests that things might not work out for us in our own end times, but it’s worth trying.
A Close Look at Caravaggio’s Last Paintinghyperallergic.com Just two paintings are in The Last Caravaggio, both in perplexed mourning over their subject matter, and both emerging from dark places.
Stunning Pale-Blue Frescoes Found in Pompeiihyperallergic.com The Ancient Roman room, thought to have been used as a shrine for ritual activities, is estimated to date back approximately 2,000 years.
Most NY Artists Are Financially Unstable, Survey Findshyperallergic.com More than half of respondents said they earned under $25,000 a year.
Six Art-World Cool Kids Take Over Abandoned High School in Upstate NYhyperallergic.com At The Campus, pairings of works by over 80 artists yield unexpected dialogues in classrooms, hallways, a gym, and even a science lab.
The Women and Children of the Second Artsakh Warhyperallergic.com Two films make US viewers reckon with the extent to which American ignorance — and indifference — to the conflict is a side effect of “winning” the Cold War.
Unearthing the Land’s Buried Stories at the Venice Biennalehyperallergic.com Artists at the Irish, Hãhãwpuá, Portuguese, and Dutch pavilions are exploring notions of land and rematriation — often by bringing soil itself into the gallery space.
How Can a Small Bohemian Town Help Artists Stay Afloat?hyperallergic.com Historic arts enclaves like Provincetown, Key West, and Taos, and American culture at large, lose when they fail to invest in artists and writers.
Of Monkeys and Menhyperallergic.com Michaël Borremans’s paintings seem to display a pitiless, if not forbidding, irony, almost studiedly cruel in their level of dispassion.
Sculpture of Virgin Mary in Labor Beheaded in Austrian Cathedralhyperallergic.com The work was part of an exhibition exploring women's roles in faith and tradition.
Museum Collection Items That Are as American as Apple Piehyperallergic.com From hot dog memorabilia to cheerleading uniforms, these objects capture the essence of Americana in all its problematic complexities.
Otto Dix’s Visions of Warhyperallergic.com What Dix conveys so deftly is that terror and trauma are felt, not thought, and art about these experiences fails when it tries to make sense of things.
Dutch Avant-Garde Painter Jacqueline de Jong Dies at 85hyperallergic.com Provocative, candid, political, and unmistakably feminist, de Jong gained international appreciation in recent years.