A few days ago, I was sifting through my late grandmother’s meticulous archive of notes, reading lists, and ephemera from her four decades as a public school librarian in Texas. I came across a state report on books banned or contested during the 2003–4 academic year, when I was in daycare and still grappling with the text of Where the Wild Things Are.The classic 1963 story of adventure by Maurice Sendak planted a seed of curiosity in me and so many other young readers, and perhaps that’s precisely why it’s one of thousands of titles still targeted for removal in libraries across the country. I’m reminded of it this Banned Books Week, as attacks on our right to imagination, free speech, and education...

The Department of Citywide Administrative Services has undertaken similar projects at cultural institutions across the five boroughs, including the Museum of the Moving Image and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sotheby’s may have been hoping that the dinosaur skeleton known as “Jodi” was, in fact, a youthful T. rex, given the name recognition and resulting price tags that have accompanied this species of sought-after dinosaur. Instead, the auction house’s latest high-profile specimen is a Nanotyrannus, a mid-size tyrannosaurid genus that, according to Artnet, had previously been for sale for $20 million at Frieze Masters in 2023. At the time, the skeleton was called “Chomper” and was being sold by the London gallery David Aaron. According to a statement from Sotheby’s, “Jodi” is one of only three known Nanotyrannus specimens. Named for Jodi Pierson, the rancher who discovered the fossil on her land...

gomi melts old Barbie dolls into marbled consumer tech
 
A Barbie doll that has spent years in the back of a closet could soon reappear as a Bluetooth speaker. Brighton-based design studio gomi has teamed up with Barbie on the Childhood Memories Collection, a limited series of electronics made partly from dolls and accessories that have reached the end of their time in the toy box. The familiar pinks and candy-colored plastics are melted down, remixed and pressed into gomi’s swirling marbled surfaces, leaving traces of their earlier lives visible in the material itself.
 
The project starts with the toys themselves. gomi is asking people to send in Barbie and Ken dolls they have stopped using, then...

The Detroit Design District today announced the inauguration of a new independent study program for artists, writers, and curators. Taking inspiration from the renowned Whitney Independent Study Program, which to date has birthed a constellation of critically well-regarded artists, museum professionals, and educators, the DDD Independent Study Program is led by founding executive director Michael […]

Over two dozen people assembled down the street from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) today, October 6, calling for the removal of disgraced billionaire Leon Black from the museum board over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Black has also faced multiple rape allegations, which he denies, none of which have resulted in a conviction.Among those in attendance were members of the feminist campaign We Are UltraViolet and its Epstein Accountability Project, the research initiative Time & Memory Project, and the mobile Epstein-Trump Reading Room, created by the Institute for Primary Facts. The free installation makes stops across the United States, displaying a timeline of President Trump's...

In 1979, Barbadian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite declared, “The hurricane does not roar in pentameter.” In the speech at Harvard University, he discussed the diasporic linguistics that proliferate throughout the Caribbean, and the failure of colonial English-language strictures to encapsulate the archipelago’s perspective. His oration was later published as History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry (1984). He identifies these communications as “nation language” — an amalgamation of sonic and verbal nuances that synthesizes African influences into a creolized Caribbean tongue. Nation language, Brathwaite explains, is “an English which is like a...

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 […]

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.
 
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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. […]

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....

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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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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...

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...

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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...

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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

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.

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Da Société Interludio, a Cambiano, La Scia di Gaia De Megni, a cura di Vincenzo Estremo: tre fotogrammi ridisegnati, una lampada senza pellicola e un’ombra che compare solo per poche ore.
Gaia De Megni, “La Scia”, curated by Vincenzo Estremo, installation view. Courtesy Gaia De Megni and Société Interludio © Claudiu Asmarandei
Nel 1915 Max Fleischer mise a punto il rotoscopio, un apparecchio che proiettava un film su un vetro, un fotogramma alla volta, perché un disegnatore potesse ricalcarne i contorni. Dal ricalco nasceva l’animazione: la mano rifaceva il movimento, ventiquattro volte al secondo. Gaia De Megni (1993) fa qualcosa di simile e di opposto. Parte da Stage Fright (Paura in...

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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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...

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.

Guangyi Luo ha ricevuto una formazione specifica per controllare i pattern. La sua esperienza nel design della moda e nella stampa le ha insegnato come gestire la ripetizione, l’equilibrio e l’organizzazione delle immagini su una superficie. In Interwoven Shadows, l’artista rovescia questa padronanza tecnica contro l’uniformità. L’opera ripete le sue forme floreali senza permettere che la ripetizione produca monotonia; l’ordine si stabilisce, ma poi viene di continuo destabilizzato.
Guangyi Luo, “Interwoven Shadows”, 2025, digital print, courtesy of the artist
Presentata a Between Worlds presso il Museo MIIT di Torino (3–7 settembre 2026), l’opera tessile di Luo è tornata in Italia per la...

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....

Two experiments in opera — Opera Philadelphia's Complications in Sue and Heartbeat Opera's MANON! — receive worthy recordings.

Al giorno d’oggi la fotografia di dating app ha accumulato praticanti sufficienti da assomigliare quasi a un genere a sé: una confederazione eterogenea di artisti che usano la telecamera per documentare la specifica, nuova texture epocale del romanticismo condotto alla velocità di uno swipe. Per la maggior parte, si accontenta dell’ironia: screenshot di match, rievocazioni in scena di una “situationship”, un saggio visivo ironico sul ghosting. What if we were lovers? di Tia Liu, un progetto in corso iniziato nel 2023 e il corpus principale del suo portfolio online, è meno protetto dall’ironia, più vulnerabile, più paziente. Piuttosto che esasperare in accezione caricaturale l’app di dating, la...

Nel panorama delle grandi manifestazioni culturali dedicate all’architettura e al progetto, la Biennale dello Stretto 2026 si conferma uno degli osservatori più acuti e fertili sulle dinamiche territoriali contemporanee, trovando nella Sezione Design curata da Francesco Alati un momento di altissima riflessione critica e di confronto visivo. Ospitato fino al 13 dicembre 2026 negli spazi suggestivi e carichi di storia del Forte Batteria Siacci di Campo Calabro, il progetto “NON IN SENSO STRETTO – Per una topologia del design tra Calabria e Sicilia” – promosso congiuntamente da ADI Calabria e ADI Sicilia con il coordinamento generale di Giusi Buono – si propone di restituire una lettura profonda e...

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Esiste un modo di intendere l’ospitalità artistica che si esaurisce nella logistica: uno studio, un letto, qualche settimana di tempo sottratto alla routine quotidiana. Ed esiste un altro modo, meno frequente e più impegnativo, in cui l’accoglienza diventa essa stessa un dispositivo critico, capace di orientare non soltanto le condizioni materiali del lavoro artistico, ma il senso stesso di ciò che una residenza può produrre. È a questo secondo modello che sembra guardare “Ripensare l’Aia”, il programma pubblico che accompagna il primo ciclo di Residenze LIEVITO, promosso da La CAP Re|Hub in collaborazione con la galleria IPERCUBO negli spazi del Podere La Capacciola, in Valdichiana Senese.
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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...

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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...