Arts

This week: An archive of Palestinian embroidery, handwriting and Parkinson’s disease, anti-capitalist mending, Tim Walz’s love for maps, toxic roses, and much more.

In his essays, exhibition, and video, Hyperallergic Fellow Brian Johnson sheds light on the overlooked history of Indigenous graphic arts.

“I get to mindfully interact with the world outside — the wind, the sounds of leaves rustling, the butterflies gliding by, and the innumerable chirps and trills of various critters.”

Texture, pattern, repetition, and practice combine with chance and the reality of climate change in the work of Dominick Porras.

Imagine Me and You encourages quiet contemplation of the juxtapositions and adaptations between the regions from 1450 to 1750. 

As a Hyperallergic Fellow, Machiko Harada mined the work and history of internment in sensitive essays and an online exhibition, which shed light on the artists grappling with its legacy.

In her thoughtful essays and exhibition, Hyperallergic Fellow Tiffany D. Gaines carries us through the rich currents of Black Arts in Buffalo.

Because in addition to leveraging a progressive voter base in his state and supporting reproductive freedom, the Minnesota governor knows how to behave around a couch.

The artist’s exhibition at the New-York Historical Society is clever, but it takes on a vast and messy past with a touch that is sometimes too light.

Hyperallergic fellow Álvaro Ibarra explored the motifs, circulation, and complex questions around ownership of the art tradition created by incarcerated Chicanos.

Mining the rich legacy of art as a way to honor the dead, Hyperallergic Fellow Brianna L. Hernández traced the history of funerary arts to contemporary practitioners.

DON’T YOU MISS US? honors the trailblazing women who paved the way, underscoring the ongoing dialogue between past and present artistic expressions.

Work by photographers from Guatemala to Brazil can be found in historically Latine neighborhoods across New York City.

This week: Street art memorializes Sonya Massey, the history of women’s athletic clothing, an Olympic cheese sponsorship, women rule BookTok, plucky astronauts, and more.

The exhibition This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance documents the writer and activist’s life through archival media, photographs, and artwork.

Make sure not to miss shows featuring Jenny Holzer, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Huong Dodinh, and others, plus a lot of dogs.

Airhead at PPOW Gallery explores alternative modes of learning within and beyond the classroom.

“My studio is between the fruit seller and the kiosk. When I leave the doors open on hot days, people walking by drop in to share their thoughts on my paintings.”

In his “Self Portrait #5,” headed to auction in August, the artist forcibly inserts himself and his culture into areas that didn’t intend to include him.

En masse, Eisenman’s paintings feel weighty and overwrought, as if too many ideas had become tangled and sucked up all the air, like a one-way conversation.