I’m ashamed to admit that it took a death in the building for me to get to know the names and faces of my neighbors after four-ish years in the same place. I knew I lived around nice people with kind faces who would hold the door open for me when I had my hands full or reflexively tell me to “be safe out there,” but that was the extent of it until last week. The person who passed was beloved by everyone — the stalwart of our street, known for a big heart that shone beneath a flimsy mask of stern words and a gruff attitude. That heart we all benefited from and took for granted is what ultimately betrayed him. What is the world without its twisted coincidences and indiscriminate punition? As untimely...
“For the Moon”, the new film by artist Éric Baudelaire, unfolds from the points of view of five students from a school for the blind in Paris
It's that time of year! Spooky season is officially upon us, and what better way to celebrate than by attending Hyperallergic's Halloween Party?On Wednesday October 28, join Hyperallergic members, contributors, and staff at Oberon, Brooklyn's newest queer haven, for an evening of ghoulish revelry.Enjoy spooky cocktails and snacks at the open bar, and put on your most inspired outfit for the night’s Costume Competition, judged by Hyperallergic’s Hrag Vartanian and special guests! Get the beetle juices flowing by perusing last year’s winning costumes, from a committed reenactment of René Magritte’s “Lovers” to an, um, conceptual tribute to Relational Aesthetics.Tickets are $20 for...
“Painting, for me, is about tension,” Martha Jungwirth once said, describing its interaction with her preferred surface, paper. A “sensual” material, she said, “smooth or rough, its tactile quality often resembles skin.” For more than 60 years, Jungwirth has refined this painterly interplay. Spontaneous smears and streams of color form her famous abstractions, evoking a body in motion. It’s no wonder fashion found its way to her studio. The Swiss fashion AKRIS collaborated with the artist on its Spring 2026 collection. Jungwirth’s brushwork is evident in the kinetic flourishes: trailing ribbons, frayed threads, and dangling straps. It’s easy to imagine the metallic fringe foresting one...
The New Museum has named the thirty-six artists and collectives participating in the Sixth New Museum Triennial, to take place February 4–May 16, 2027, at the New York institution’s recently expanded home. Titled “The Outside Expands,” the event is being curated by Vivian Crockett and Isabella Rjeille, of the New Museum and MASP—Museu de Arte […]
In the 1960s, Robert Underwood left his small Kentucky town as a teenager and became Sun Ra’s protégé. He became the percussionist for Ra’s Arkestra and returned home in 2016 as Ayé A. Aton. Over seven decades on the road, Aton explored vast distances of space and time, studying the mysteries of outer space and Ancient Egypt under Ra’s mentorship, then turning to art in a self-directed inquiry into the visual culture of West and Central Africa. In later years, Aton’s research into his African ancestry deepened, and his work turned away from Ra’s Afrofuturism toward a more historically grounded approach.From left to right: Ayé A. Aton "Inspiration Afrika #17" (2006) and "Inspiration Afrika #15"...
Philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran has donated $5 million to the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the museum announced this week. The gift will support the expansion of the institution’s Asian art galleries, as well as acquisitions, scholarly research, and public programs on Sri Lankan art. The museum’s Art of Asia galleries will expand from approximately 6,000 square feet to 9,500 square feet, and it includes a new 2,000-square-foot Nagendran Gallery for the Art of Sri Lanka and South Asia in honor of its benefactor. Considered the foremost institution for Asian art in the United States, this additional space will give the museum more room to display roughly 4,000 historic and contemporary works from its more...
The History of Tears at the Bourse de Commerce iN Paris
American artist Barbara Kruger fills Tadao Ando’s rotunda at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris with a monumental work of text and image. Made for the curved concrete walls at the museum’s core, The History of Tears is the opening installation of Remember Me, the Pinault Collection’s exhibition marking two hundred years of photography. Kruger’s words run across the walls, continue under visitors’ feet over the full width of the floor, and carry on into twenty four display cases in the surrounding Passage, which have been turned into lightboxes carrying her own commands.
At the center of the rotunda, in the artist’s signature black, white...
American artist Barbara Kruger fills Tadao Ando’s rotunda at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris with a monumental work of text and image. Made for the curved concrete walls at the museum’s core, The History of Tears is the opening installation of Remember Me, the Pinault Collection’s exhibition marking two hundred years of photography. Kruger’s words run across the walls, continue under visitors’ feet over the full width of the floor, and carry on into twenty four display cases in the surrounding Passage, which have been turned into lightboxes carrying her own commands.
At the center of the rotunda, in the artist’s signature black, white...
Nirbhai (nep) Singh Sidhu’s large-scale sculpture commission is now a permanent fixture of the Scarborough Gurdwara
The Phoenix Art Museum has received a $5 million gift from the philanthropist Dr. Sukumar Nagendran. The money will support acquisitions, scholarly research, and public programming, focused primarily on South Asian and Sri Lankan art. The expansion includes an increase of the museum’s Art of Asia galleries from 6,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet. […]
After a five-year pause, the New Museum in Manhattan will open its sixth triennial for emerging artists in its newly expanded building on February 4, 2027. Titled The Outside Expands, the triennial will feature 36 artists and collectives representing 34 nations, making it the most internationally focused edition to date. A complete list of participants is included at the end of this article. New Museum Curator Vivian Crockett co-organized The Outside Expands with Isabella Rjeille, a curator at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) in Brazil. The pair was inspired by “X Galeria (X Gallery)” (1979), an urban intervention staged by the Brazilian collective 3NÓS3 during the United...
The State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg has restored Ivan Aivazovsky’s The Ninth Wave (1850) ahead of a retrospective on the Russian artist opening on October 16, according to Russian state media LenTV24. The restoration of the painting started in June and will be exhibited in the Benois Wing of the museum. In the 120 years that the State Russian Museum has owned the painting, only minor conservation has been carried out. “The Russian Museum has no canvases in unsatisfactory condition, but we understand that one day this painting, which is over a century and a half old … will require comprehensive scientific restoration. Especially given the high standards of conservation maintained at the Russian...
The New Museum in New York has announced the 36 artists and collectives that will participate in the 2027 New Museum Triennial, running February 4–May 16, 2027. Under the title “The Outside Expands,” the sixth edition of the Triennial will also be the first to take place at the museum since its expansion opened earlier this year. Among the closely watched artists included are Virginia Chihota, Mandy El-Sayegh, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Josi, Jota Mombaça, Agnes Questionmark, and Sin Wai Kin. This Triennial will be curated by New Museum curator Vivian Crockett and Isabella Rjeille, a curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), with curatorial assistant Thalia Stefaniuk and curatorial fellow Taeyi Kim....
Top collector Beth Rudin DeWoody has listed her Upper East Side co-op for $12 million, for the second time since 2018. She previously took the apartment off the market in 2020. At 5,000-square-feet, the 10 Gracie Square fourth-floor apartment boasts incredible East River views and a massive amount of space, including a 32-foot-long entrance gallery, an expansive living room, a formal dining room, a terrace, four bedrooms, two staff rooms, a laundry room, and an eat-in kitchen, complete with paned windows and herringbone floors. If that’s not enough, Rudin DeWoody hired architect Alan Wanzenberg, who had previously worked for I.M. Pei, to renovate the apartment. For her part, Rudin De Woody seems to have...
La Feria, the single-day media and print fair run by The Latinx Project at New York University (NYU), returned for its third edition on Saturday, October 3, just as the northeastern coast’s humidity retreated. Forty-six entities gathered to celebrate contemporary media and assert Latinx/e art’s place in the art historical canon, displaying zines, academic books, textiles, and prints of many sizes that embody a plethora of printmaking techniques — some even made in real time. While artists are required to submit an application to table, there is no fee, unlike at other art and media fairs. La Feria also connects publishers and organizations with other artists, true to the ethos of access and...
Perhaps best known for her luminous portraits in collaboration with legacy magazines and fashion houses, photographer Elizaveta Porodina has also captured the smaller, yet no less striking, creatures walking this planet. Commissioned for the climate-focused publication Atmos, a radiant series of images highlights beetles, butterflies, and mantises in her signature ethereal style and saturated color. The body of work focuses on the concept of biomimicry and accompanies a feature on Janine Benyus, who coined the term. The portraits shown here are also included in Porodina’s new monograph Found Dreams, edited by Nadine Barth and released by Prestel, alongside her more cinematic, fashion-focused imagery. Pick up...
The women look concerned, and weary. They are ready to repel an attack. The women look in love, but bored. “When are you leaving,” they might wonder. The women are only half-present. Matted hair, two eyes, a hand, and the rest have either turned inward or run away. The women are multifaceted. Their eyes are […]
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ready to go off-roading
MINI is giving its largest model a little more room to wander. The new Countryman Untamed Edition takes the familiar crossover and raises it on a 15-millimeter suspension lift, fits it with Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain Plus tires, and adds a set of exterior pieces intended to take some abuse away from paved roads. Depending on market and powertrain, the lift adds up to 19 millimeters of ground clearance. MINI has also recalibrated the steering, anti-lock braking system, while ALL4 all-wheel drive is available across compatible versions.
The changes are modest enough that the Countryman still reads instantly as a MINI, though the car‘s stance feels more confident. Its new 19-inch...
MINI is giving its largest model a little more room to wander. The new Countryman Untamed Edition takes the familiar crossover and raises it on a 15-millimeter suspension lift, fits it with Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain Plus tires, and adds a set of exterior pieces intended to take some abuse away from paved roads. Depending on market and powertrain, the lift adds up to 19 millimeters of ground clearance. MINI has also recalibrated the steering, anti-lock braking system, while ALL4 all-wheel drive is available across compatible versions.
The changes are modest enough that the Countryman still reads instantly as a MINI, though the car‘s stance feels more confident. Its new 19-inch...
The Lagos Biennial has announced the eighteen artists and groups participating in its 2026 edition, curated by Furen Dai, Chinyere Obieze, and Sam Hopkins. These participants are: Ade Adekola, Ala Praxis, Caitlyn Min-ji Au, CAMP, Ha Bik Chuen, Jacob Höfle, Lagos Studio Archives, Olukemi Lijadu, Antoni Muntadas, New Culture Studios, Aki Sasamoto, Arcangelo Sassolino, Amie […]
Community voices inform waterfront Public landmark in Queens
Revolving Voices by The Urban Conga and local poet Tamra Cosby is a permanent public artwork and gathering space at Astoria Houses, a New York City public housing development in Queens. Located beside the Astoria waterfront and ferry dock, the installation brings community stories, memories, poetry, and imagery into a sculptural and interactive structure.
The project was developed through community engagement sessions with Cosby as part of From Roots to Arts: Celebrating NYCHA’s Cultural Heritage, an artist-in-residence program created by the Public Housing Community Fund and NYCHA. Residents shared memories, experiences, and ideas that...
Revolving Voices by The Urban Conga and local poet Tamra Cosby is a permanent public artwork and gathering space at Astoria Houses, a New York City public housing development in Queens. Located beside the Astoria waterfront and ferry dock, the installation brings community stories, memories, poetry, and imagery into a sculptural and interactive structure.
The project was developed through community engagement sessions with Cosby as part of From Roots to Arts: Celebrating NYCHA’s Cultural Heritage, an artist-in-residence program created by the Public Housing Community Fund and NYCHA. Residents shared memories, experiences, and ideas that...
Elspeth Vince explores memory, dreams and absence in Soft Tissue.
Wyclef Jean will headline the British Museum Ball 2026.
GOOGLE JAPAN GBOARD KURUKURU PUTS THE KEYBOARD IN MOTION
Google Japan has looked at the conventional keyboard and decided that perhaps our fingers have been doing too much of the work. Developed by the Gboard team, the new Gboard Kurukuru Version places its keys on moving conveyor belts, allowing characters to travel toward the user rather than asking the user to reach across a fixed layout. The experimental device turns one of the most familiar tools on a desk into something closer to a miniature production line, with typing becoming a matter of catching the right character as it rolls into place.
Four continuous belts make up the keyboard, with 29 keys arranged along each one for a total of 116. As...
Google Japan has looked at the conventional keyboard and decided that perhaps our fingers have been doing too much of the work. Developed by the Gboard team, the new Gboard Kurukuru Version places its keys on moving conveyor belts, allowing characters to travel toward the user rather than asking the user to reach across a fixed layout. The experimental device turns one of the most familiar tools on a desk into something closer to a miniature production line, with typing becoming a matter of catching the right character as it rolls into place.
Four continuous belts make up the keyboard, with 29 keys arranged along each one for a total of 116. As...
Salman Toor brings joy, danger and desire to The Courtauld.
Philip Tinari has been promoted to director of Tai Kwun Arts in Hong Kong, following his appointment in February to the position of deputy director of the arts nonprofit. He begins his new role on February 23. “As Tai Kwun approaches its 10th anniversary in 2028, we have an exciting opportunity to build on the […]
This year, an international team of scientists announced the discovery of a new species of wild cat in Bolivia, and research initiatives like Ocean Census continue to document hundreds of new marine species annually. Yet species are probably disappearing faster than we can find them. It’s difficult to gauge what goes extinct every year when we’re still so far from comprehending just how many different types of organisms there are in the first place. Possibly thousands of species disappear every year, however, and at a rate accelerated by human-caused habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. For Amok Island, who was born in Amsterdam and is currently based in Fremantle, Western Australia, the fragility...
The scheme comes after trade unions representing museum staff held strikes in September, with negotiations still ongoing
“Castrato Phantoms” explores the artistic legacy of a cruel historic practice that saw young boys mutilated in order to create distinctive singing voices in later life
Renovation expands exhibition spaces and provides new facilities as well as creating better links with its neighbour, the Guggenheim Bilbao
designing for the movies with christopher glass
Production designer Christopher Glass has recently come off the wild and colorful sets of American director Boots Riley’s latest film, I Love Boosters, starring Keke Palmer, Demi Moore, and Eiza González. In the film, Moore plays the salacious fashion designer Christie Smith, whose office is in a fictional version of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower, which has been sinking into the ground, causing the luxury skyscraper to tilt. In Riley’s film, Smith’s offices, complete with sketches, racks of clothing, and colorful accoutrements, lampoon the structural deficit, creating an egregiously slanted office that causes those who enter to slip, slide, and...
Production designer Christopher Glass has recently come off the wild and colorful sets of American director Boots Riley’s latest film, I Love Boosters, starring Keke Palmer, Demi Moore, and Eiza González. In the film, Moore plays the salacious fashion designer Christie Smith, whose office is in a fictional version of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower, which has been sinking into the ground, causing the luxury skyscraper to tilt. In Riley’s film, Smith’s offices, complete with sketches, racks of clothing, and colorful accoutrements, lampoon the structural deficit, creating an egregiously slanted office that causes those who enter to slip, slide, and...
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s performance of “As with rosy steps the morn” from Handel’s Theodora is a masterclass in the confidence to simply hold space.
Thaddaeus Ropac announces representation of painter Denzil Forrester.
In the “feminist west” that lives on Jennifer Nehrbass’s canvases, women ride horseback and hike in fashionable attire. They appear in head-and-shoulder portraits against fiery backgrounds and nude in pieces where figurative and landscape painting converge. In her work, Nehrbass challenges the common depictions of the U.S. West. “You would always have the man who […]
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Independent, the New York-based organizer of the Independent Art Fair and Independent 20th Century, has been acquired by global conglomerate Informa, according to reporting by Artnews. The sale was finalized last year, and it marks Informa’s first acquisition of a New York-based art brand. Upon the announcement of the Informa sale, Independent’s co-founder and creative […]
In archaeology, discoveries typically prompt more questions than answers. For Max Lehman, who studies Pre-Columbian art history, what we don’t know—and may never—about ancient peoples and civilizations is what makes the discipline so compelling. The ancient Mayans, for example, bedecked their elaborate temples with images on carved rock slabs, and the Aztec sun stone, or calendar stone, is a remarkable example of Mexica sculpture. Lehman’s work has one foot in the advanced civilizations of the past and another in the distant future, a time long after today’s developments around robotic and machine learning technologies. His current show Ancestral Androids at Hecho a Mano delves into a kind of future...
Filippo Antonello explores bodies, weight and unstable structures in Load Path.
As a child in Dashishan Village in southern China, Tang Shuo was afraid of snakes. He and several generations of the Tang family lived together in a small community and farmed the land, tending to crops and sheep and encountering the occasional reptile. In a vivid new painting on linen, the artist confronts this adolescent fear as he envisions himself grasping a sleek, black serpent, its recently shed skin lying beneath them. Long interested in his ancestry and familial connection to the land, Tang once again journeys to his home territory for Borrowed History, his first solo exhibition in New York. This body of work extends the artist’s approach to questioning how our heritage informs our understanding of...
From nail-cloaked ceramic vessels to larger-than-life busts influenced by African and Oceanic visual culture, Sharif Bey’s bold works summon the complexities of heritage, identity, and society. In his ceramic and mixed-media Guardian Series and Crown Series, calm yet imposing figures evoke the Benin Bronzes, ceremonial masking traditions, the giant Moai stone heads of Easter Island, and more. Bey has long been interested in the commanding nature of objects, especially the ways in which colonialist forces have mined cultural heritage. The Benin Bronzes, which artisans created during the 14th century in what is now Nigeria, are a prime example: British troops looted thousands of plaques in 1897, and The...
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Mitridate, re di Ponto at the Teatro di San Carlo showcases some energetic performances — and some unfortunate stage busyness.
Beatrice Venezi may have been exiled to Siberia, but Stacy Jarvis argues that opera's combination of global economics and local judgments mean that no artist is truly cancelable.
Seeing and hearing Lorraine Hunt Lieberson sing Didon at the Met was one of the greatest performances in my many years of opera going.
By Kristine Schomaker Friday night I stood at the AIDS Monument in West Hollywood and watched artists perform five-minute pieces in the open air as the sun went down. ACTION = LIFE, presented by LACE and the Performance Art Museum as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival. A marathon of performances. So many friends. So much history in one place. I drove home still feeling it. Thinking about the first performance I ever saw that made me understand what my own work was actually about....
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By Kristine Schomaker I learned yesterday that my friend Scott Froschauer died suddenly. I've known him for almost ten years, and I'm still trying to find a place to put this. Scott was a Shoebox artist, one of the early ones. We worked together on several projects, but the one I keep coming back to is an art salon we put together on consent, negotiation, and the male gaze, how the male posture of viewing women frames any sign of femininity as an invitation, and what it would mean to actually...
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By Betty Ann Brown "In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world."—Graciela Iturbide Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide creates haunting images that portray the people, places, and events of the extraordinary cultures and geographies of her home country. Iturbide has a unique artistic practice that involves living and working with the people she chooses to photograph. Her process has made possible the strange and wonderful depictions for which she is known. In...
By Victoria Thomas Lauren Cross, PhD is the Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts for The Huntington. The gifted artist, author, and scholar moves through the world of material objects with a detective's nose for sleuthing out lost context and hidden figures, and a Griot's gift for connecting narrative dots to unearth treasure. She is the unstoppable force behind the first major museum retrospective to explore the untold history of ceramic innovator Doyle Lane, with more...
With a creative lexicon featuring yarn, pixels, beeswax, and spray paint, Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega has created a new language for herself, one that speaks to the present and the past by using traditional and contemporary techniques, as well as rural and urban sensibilities, to create a body of work that synthesizes all her […]
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Paris Design Week and Maison & Objet are two parts of the same September design ecosystem in the French capital.
The 80th Issue of Hi-Fructose is coming soon! It includes a cover a feature on the paper collages of Lola Dupre, the Fluffy Vases of Shishi San, the installation paintings of Evgenia Voinar, Debbie Lawson’s textile sculptures, painter Rob Browning’s stark surrealism. Plus a Special Insert Section focused on the art of Jeff Sheridan, Andrea […]
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By Lacey Argus Sovern, a nonprofit art gallery and healing justice center in Los Angeles, sticks out like a vibrant castle in the midst of the harsh greys of urban Los Angeles. The bright shades of pink and elaborate designs that adorn its concrete walls draw you in, as if calling you to explore the treasures within. The gallery's current showing is Into the Pluriverse, running from June 25 through October 8, 2026. Into the Pluriverse is a group exhibition inspired by the Zapatista term...
