Gavin Jantjes’s Soft Songs From Exile

Since being forced to leave South Africa for critiquing Apartheid, the artist has worked from afar to shed light on Black struggles for equality.

The Queer Artists Who Helped Shape the Southwest

SANTA FE — What role did queer individuals play in developing the art communities throughout the Southwest? Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest 1900–1969 at the New Mexico Museum of Art aims to answer this question with a selection of works by artists in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and West Texas, a […]

Tavares Strachan Complicates What it Means to Be a “Pioneer”

Installation view of Tavares Strachan, “Robert” (2018) (all photos Anna Souter/Hyperallergic) LONDON — At the center of Tavares Strachan’s mid-career survey at Hayward Gallery sits a 2,550-page leather-bound book. “The Encyclopedia of Invisibility” (2014–18) is a monumental research project compiling encyclopedic entries on people, objects, and phenomena that have been overlooked or neglected due to […]

Required Reading

This week: art-world dogs, the politics of book cover design, June Jordan’s unwavering anti-Zionism, collegiate architecture, Chinchilla XCX, and much more.

A View From the Easel

“Pari, a dog I rescued and adopted from the street, hangs around while I stretch my canvases.”

Lita Albuquerque’s Longing for Tunisia

The prolific artist recreated her 1978 landwork “Malibu Line” on the site of her former family home in June, marking a new chapter in her fictive, cosmological oeuvre.