The New Museum will hold the largest-ever survey exhibition of works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Arthur Jafa this September, titled I Am Tony in honor of the late jazz drummer Tony Williams.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has placed the director of its graduate art therapy program, Savneet Talwar, on leave after she assigned students a case study analyzing a hypothetical client who was “deeply affected by the violence against Palestinian civilians.”
As part of our Pride Month series, we spoke with artist Nayland Blake, whose work is “cerebral, hilarious, charming, kinky, alarming,” says Hyperallergic’s Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang. Blake, who is nonbinary and pansexual, spoke of identity as unfixed and “continually being made and remade."
The Chicago school is investigating the director of its art therapy graduate program after she assigned a case study that touched on pro-Palestine activism.
Spend Pride Month diving into some fascinating art books! Check out our top 7, which celebrate the essential political and creative provocations of LGBTQ+ artists.
A fire that broke out in Long Island City on Monday left two Queens artists scrambling to rescue decades of work and look for new studios.
After visiting Sanford Wurmfeld's new exhibition “Squares 1971-74,” art critic John Yau remarks that the artist “emphasizes the temporality of looking, as well as underscores that one’s experience of time is subjective.”
Get a first look at the art in the new Obama Presidential Center. With works by Idris Khan, Maya Lin, and more, the $850M campus will be a public art destination for Chicago’s South Side, if it can live up to its community.
A joint biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, a catalog on Martin Wong’s Chinatowns, Catherine Opie’s portraiture, queer nightlife through the ages, and more.
Art-world award shows generate recognition, narrative, and prestige, but the relationship between that recognition and power remains uneven. Visibility circulates. Authority is reaffirmed. Access to resources, decision-making, and long-term influence remains largely unchanged.
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Linda Ganjian worked to salvage pieces from water damage after a blaze erupted in the Long Island City building where she and Ilan Averbach had studios.
A René Magritte painting was damaged…with a pinecone?
At the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, a child punctured Magritte’s “The Castle of the Pyrenees” with a pinecone taken from the museum’s garden. The painting is now in the process of being treated in the museum’s conservation lab.
He emphasizes the temporality of looking, as well as underscores that one’s experience of time is subjective.
The two-floor show will premiere new works alongside the artist’s iconic pieces, such as "Love is the Message, The Message is Death."
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With works by Idris Khan, Maya Lin, and more, the $850M campus will be a public art destination for Chicago’s South Side, if it can live up to its community.
What is being offered as recognition often operates as a way of organizing power, determining not only what is seen, but who is positioned to benefit from that visibility.
