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Dyani White Hawk spoke to her longtime friend and colleage Layli Long Soldier about her new book, the threads connecting poetry and visual art, and how Lakota philosophy suffuses her work.

From Robert Rauschenberg and Josef Albers to Vija Celmins and Julie Mehretu, artists have tinkered outside their comfort zones at Gemini G.E.L.

“Perhaps the stadium is actually the replacement for the UN as a symbolic gathering point to conduct world politics,” the artist told Hyperallergic in an interview.

Images rooted in queer and pop culture and national pride celebrate a progressive win at the polls and a step back for fascism.

During her over five-decade career, Von Rydingsvard chipped away at enormous cedar beams to create a menagerie of massive sculptures, from an assembly of cones to a 17-foot-tall tornado-shaped behemoth made from 15,000 pounds of wood.

“You Can See Everything” is toted as a documentary, but is Fielder a performance artist playing a documentarian?

Designed by artisans from Mestiz Studio in Mexico, “Twenty Petal Flower,” begins blossoming in Flatiron’s North Plaza in Manhattan six days before the start of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead).

“It only took five minutes,” said the NYC mayor in a social media video. More museums and cultural institutions across the city serve as early voting sites.

"John Dilg’s paintings don’t seem to have undergone any seismic changes during the decade I’ve been following his work, so I wasn’t sure there was anything else I could say about it," writes Art Critic John Yau. "But after visiting a recent exhibition, I realized I was wrong."

California performance artist Bonnie Ora Sherk was a cultural trickster and proactive spoiler in the business of everyday life.

"As an artist who lived through the Reagan-era Culture Wars, I recommend Isaac Butler’s “The Perfect Moment” for the stories that parallel our current fight to defend creative expression," writes Martha Wilson in her book review for Hyperallergic.

American rapper Kid Cudi announced his hand in writing, directing, and starring in the forthcoming project "JEAN," a biopic of late contemporary artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Cudi called the film a “love letter to Jean, the 80s and NY city,” and said that production is set to begin next year.

Writer Neil Price writes that the exhibition is a provocative and discursive exploration of how artists respond to our late-capitalist epoch, but its focus on “rupture” raises questions.

In the legal system, art created by refugees and incarcerated people can serve both as a form of therapy and as evidence of mass atrocities.

This week, Gerardo Rosales paints stories late into the night to the sounds of Chaka Khan and a James Baldwin audiobook. “I often say that my favorite material is the next one, the one I haven’t worked with yet.”

On protest, business as usual, and the surreal experience of attending art fair while smelling burning plastic.

The researchers identified discrepancies between the celestial alignments in June 1889 and Vincent van Gogh’s painted night sky. hyperallergic.com/scientists-c...

Musician and indie darling Phoebe Bridgers was drawn to John Griswold’s intimate tableaux evoking Renaissance and Baroque iconographies.

After a short Wikipedia entry about artist Laura June Kirsch mysteriously appeared, anonymous users who were seemingly men debated whether she was “credible enough” to justify her own page.

"Conduits of the Unseen: Women Artists Imagine Other Worlds" brings together 17 women artists whose work emerges through spirit communication.

When students in France took to the streets in 1968 to protest the country’s crumbling education system and Gaullist government, they transformed public statues into participants in their cause. Today, student demonstrators in France are addressing many of the same issues at the heart of May 68.

An exhibition pairing paintings by Ilana Savdie and Chaïm Soutine "guides us through the chambers of our own minds and bodies," says Hyperallergic's Associate Editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin.

As negotiations continue at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London, unionized staff have publicized their intent to strike across all four city sites on October 29 and 30, citing continued disputes regarding pay and working conditions.

Institutions, especially well-resourced museums, foundations, and cultural organizations, have no excuse for relying on generative tools instead of paying writers, says Hyperallergic's Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia.

Tenured faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are decorating the university’s surveillance cameras with googly eyes, rhinestones, and glitzy decorations to protest its investment in what they call “Big Brother technology.”

"David Reed: Terrible Idea" at Rodder shows that the artist "brought his optical preoccupations into the 21st century, without losing his love of artists from earlier eras," says John Yau.

To connote the layering of our daily experience, artist Melissa Brown collages a spectrum of techniques: photography, plein-air painting, CMYK printing, airbrush, and stencil.

In Mani Haghighi’s new film, an artist’s extensive archive draws the ire of the authorities.

This year’s 30th Gowanus Open Studios was a love letter to the neighborhood and its craftsmanship amid an era of remediation, development, and gentrification.

The first Afro-Brazilian woman to earn a PhD in visual arts in Brazil, Paulino sees the colonial past as an active force in her country’s present, visible above all in the violence, archival and literal, against Black people, especially women.

Hundreds protested at Colombia’s national museum in Bogotá this weekend, days after the country’s far-right government ordered the removal of objects addressing political violence, women’s rights, and LGBTQ+ history. It was a move straight out of the Trumpian playbook.

Los-Angeles based photographer Smiles Meyer, who was raised in a conservative Catholic environment, is reclaiming the divinity of queer and trans identity through religious imagery.

Ahead of her memoir’s release, we talk to Joan Kron about Andy Warhol, beating Sidney Janis to the punch, and why she calls herself a “renegade housewife” of Pop Art.

See paw-sitively adorable photos from this years Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in Manhattan's East Village.

A life-sized statue of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis began melting soon after the climate advocacy group 350 Action installed it in front of a crowd of DeSantis supporters in Tallahassee on Tuesday, October 13.

Dozens of students from the École du Louvre, a higher education arts institution in the Louvre Palace in Paris, began blocking the main entrance of the Louvre October 19, as nationwide protests over the overcrowded and underresourced conditions of France’s education system reach the one-month mark.

my picks for 10 LA shows to see this month, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/10-art-shows...

Late novelist and art critic John Berger asked Tom Overton to wait to write his biography until after his death. The result is "deeply informative, deferential, and perceptive, sometimes lyrically so," says Megan O'Grady.

Roy Lichtenstein "went from being a satirist of America’s ideals to a parody of himself, an artist content with other artists’ masterpieces," says art critic John Yau.

Approximately 250 protesters gathered beside the Washington Monument on the National Mall on October 8 as part of a National Day of Action event calling for accountability and justice for sexual assault survivors.

In the book "Artifacts to Art: Collecting Ancient America in Midcentury L.A." (2026), a team of researchers excavates the story of Earl Stendahl, a mid-century gallerist who shamelessly stole ancient Mesoamerican objects and marketed them to the institutional art world.

In her book "Vermeer's Afterlives" (2026), Ruth Bernard Yeazell traces the artist's deep mark on European and American artists from the late 19th century onward.

Materials for the Arts (MFTA) is launching a new free shopping program for artists who receive city-funded grants on October 19.

Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland has proposed a bill calling on the Smithsonian to preserve and permanently exhibit artifacts related to the Trump administration’s escalating aggression against the institution’s museums and research centers.

Students in France are approaching their third week of protests over a host of ills in the country’s education system, spanning dilapidated infrastructure, teacher shortages, underfunding, and overburdened schedules.

A new soon-to-be viral smoothie is making its debut at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Erewhon cafe, inspired by Alexander Calder's mobile outside the museum. Think something à la Hailey Bieber, but in concrete gray with blobs of Calderesque colors.

Artists, poets, and scholars mull over words of their choosing in the book "Thinking From Black: A Lexicon," offering new definitions of phrases from which Blackness proliferates: “world,” “water,” “care.”

A new biography attempts to make the case for Dorthea Tanning’s independence and artistic strength in her own right, but remains frustratingly tethered to her husband.