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Alan Michelson Talks Dinosaurs, Murderous US Presidents, and Platinum-Gilded Native “Knowledge Keepers”
As a child, Alan Michelson often rode the T past sculptor Cyrus Edward Dallin’s “Appeal to the Great Spirit” (1908) outside the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). He was riveted by the statue’s grand horse and the powerful yet melancholy fi
The French Lesbian Curator & Spy Who Saved Art from the Nazis
When World War II broke out, museums across France took their most precious artworks off the walls and hid them away for safekeeping from bombing. But no one suspected the greatest threat to these treasures: the Nazis’ massive art looting s
Ancient Art, Wages, and Strikes: A 3000-Year-Old History of Labor
At Hyperallergic, we take pride in covering protesting museum workers who take to the streets. But few realize that these workers are taking part in a practice that’s as old as some of the ancient artifacts in their institutions. In this ep
Lady Pink, the Queen of New York City Graffiti
In 1971, a seven-year-old Sandra Fabara moved with her family from a city nestled in an Ecuadorian rainforest to the dense brick landscape of Brooklyn. By the time she was a teenager, she had gone from climbing trees to hopping the fences o
Street Stories: Graffiti and the Legacy of Martin Wong
The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) holds what is arguably the most important collection of early graffiti art and ephemera, amassed by Martin Wong, a queer Chinese-American self-taught painter who wore cowboy hats and, for a time, pa
Talking a Big Game: The Art of Sports and the Sport of Art
We’ve been taught by high school movies and pop culture at large that art and sports are diametrical opposites. You know the trope: The sporty jocks and the nerdy theater kids are all relegated to separate lunch tables, and never the twain
Nick Cave Is Serving You Everything
One of seven brothers, Nick Cave grew up watching his family create magic out of scraps. His aunts would cut paper bags into patterns, and in just one day, make an entire new outfit to wear that night. Since then, the artist has been dedica
The Boys in the (Klan) Hood: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston’s Legacy
Philip Guston, an Ashkenazi Jew, and Trenton Doyle Hancock, a Black artist with a strict Southern Christian upbringing, came from vastly different backgrounds. But a current show at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan reveals that their perspect
Joyce Kozloff’s Patterns of Protest
In 1973, gallerist Tibor de Nagy gave Joyce Kozloff a call. His voice quivered as he told her that Clement Greenberg had just left the back room after giving a searing review of her latest work. Greenberg had scoffed at the artist’s “Three
Karen Wilkin: Critiquing the New Masters
In the late 1950s, a Manhattan-born college student was running from an art history course at Barnard to a George Balanchine (https://www.nycballet.com/discover/our-history/george-balanchine/) ballet practice at the storied School of Americ
Guantánamo Bay and the Art of Resistance
This August, journalist Moustafa Bayoumi broke the story (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/02/september-11-detainee-cia-black-site-photo) that the first photo of a detainee in a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) black si
Lucy Lippard’s Life on the Frontlines of Art
When Lucy Lippard left New York City for the tiny village of Galisteo, New Mexico, some were shocked: How could this giant of 20th-century art criticism, this leader in the fight for feminism and equitable representation in museums, leave t
Robber Barons, Marcel Duchamp, and Big Museums’ Dirty Little Secrets
In 1915, Marcel Duchamp bought a snow shovel at a hardware store in New York City. He inscribed his signature and the date on its wooden handle. On the evening this episode is released, the fourth (https://www.moma.org/collection/works/1050
Silver Skeleton Deities and Political Mind Games: What’s Happening at the Venice Biennale?
The sports world may be on the edge of their seats as we draw close to the 2024 Olympics in Paris. But the “Olympics of the art world” is already well underway in Italy: Hundreds of thousands of art lovers are flocking to the Venice Biennal
Shelley Niro's 500 Year Itch
Shelley Niro (Kanien’kehaka) grew up watching her father craft faux tomahawks to sell to tourists who flocked to her birthplace, Niagara Falls. In this episode of the Hyperallergic podcast, she reflects on how witnessing him create these ob
Lee Quiñones: Graffiti and the Gallery
Anyone who remembers New York City’s “golden age (https://www.huckmag.com/article/martha-cooper-photographing-golden-age-of-nyc-graffiti-scene-80s)” of graffiti in the late ’70s and early ’80s knows about the lion spray-painted on the handb
From Blog to Book
Since 2009, Hyperallergic has published tens of thousands of articles about art. But who are the writers behind these posts? And what drives them to write about art of all things? Many of the authors who have passed through our virtual hall
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: The Story of One of the Few Artists at the Stonewall Uprising
We are thrilled to be back with a new episode of the Hyperallergic podcast. For our one hundredth episode, we spoke with legendary collage and mixed media artist Tommy Lannigan-Schmidt. His works, made from crinkly saran wrap and tin foil,
The Cartoonist the US Right-Wing Political Establishment Loves to Hate
If you’ve been online, and especially on Twitter, then you probably know the name Eli Valley (https://www.elivalley.com/) and his brushy drawings that use the grotesque and absurd to make larger points about life, culture, and politics. But
Artists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin Discuss Digital Combines
Artists Tali Hinkis (http://lovid.org/) and Daniel Temkin (https://danieltemkin.com/) have been at the leading edge of digitally informed contemporary art that explores the boundaries of programming, digital aesthetics, and the handmade. Th
Tamara Lanier's Fight for the Photographs of Her Enslaved Ancestors at Harvard
Last year, we published a dossier of statements by leading scholars (https://hyperallergic.com/688025/the-continuing-fight-to-free-renty/) supporting the fight of Tamara Lanier to reclaim the daguerreotypes of her ancestors from the Peabody
Understanding Why a Harvard Museum Will Return Standing Bear’s Tomahawk
Something incredible happened a few months ago. After Oklahoma lawyer Brett Chapman (Pawnee) started tweeting about the tomahawk of Ponca Chief Standing Bear, which is currently in Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethn
Audrey Flack and the Last of the New York School
A painter who may be best known for her contribution to the Photorealism movement, Audrey Flack has been a working artist for roughly 70 years. Now at age 90, Flack reflects on the art world, from her days as part of the New York School of
Collector Tim Kang Talks About His Love of NFTs
Tim Kang started his career as a software engineer for Deutsche Bank and invested a year of savings in Ethereum in early 2016, and let’s just say it’s paying off. The North Carolina native, who is known online as “illestrater,” is now a dig
Creative Time’s Diya Vij Helps Launch an Art World Think Tank
Diya Vij started her new job as Associate Curator of Creative Time just last fall, in the midst of the pandemic. She has since announced the first Creative Time Think Tank (https://creativetime.org/think-tank/) cohort, which includes La Tan
After Decades of Selling New Media Art, Gallerist Steven Sacks Offers His Take on NFTs
Since 2001, Bitforms gallerist Steven Sacks has been exhibiting and selling digital art (though he hates that term) and building an audience and support network for artists working with new media. After Sara Ludy, one of the artists Bitform
Lindsay Howard Talks About the Burgeoning Market for NFTs
Lindsay Howard (https://twitter.com/lindsay_howard?lang=en) is the head of community at the Foundation (https://foundation.app/), one of the new platforms that have been part of the current wave of NFT art. She joined me in our Brooklyn stu
The World of NFTs, Explained by Digital Artist Addie Wagenknecht
Contemporary artist Addie Wagenknecht (https://twitter.com/wheresaddie) is a veteran of the blockchain space — as much of a seasoned pro as one can be in a field that’s only a decade old. She’s been observing the gold rush over NFTs in the
A Photographer Documents Post-war Artsakh
Photographer Scout Tufankjian was glued to her screens like Armenians around the world following news of developments in Artsakh. After the ceasefire was announced, she decided to rush to the region, which she's visited numerous times befor
MoMA’s Leon Black Problem and Cuban Artists Under Siege
This week’s headlines were dominated by news that the Museum of Modern Art will not remove billionaire Leon Black from their board. Hyperallergic’s Jasmine Weber and Valentina Di Liscia join me to talk about it along with PEN America’s new
