Quiet Paintings at a Time of Sensory Overload
Where Kim Mikyung’s process suggests an obsessive burrowing into the self, Kim Hyung-dae casts his gaze upward and outward into the sky.
Arts
Is the “Free the Nipple” Movement Too White?
Online representations of the activists lean White and thin, creating an image problem for the movement.
Mark Thomas Gibson’s Cartoons See the US Going Nowhere
If Thomas Nast, who is considered the “Father of the American Cartoon,” has an heir, it is Gibson, who goes one step further and elevates caricature and commentary into art.
Remembering the Migrants Who Died in US Detention
Artist Jackie Amézquita will lead a caravan of trucks with the names of the deceased to LA sites representing systems of oppression and solidarity for immigrants.
Kahori Kamiya Transmutes Grief Into Play
Through artworks that encourage viewers to explore varied vantages, Kamiya conveys her accrued wisdom and experiences without the weight of their pain.
Required Reading
This week, gifted DeSantis a “fascist” snowflake, NASA’s Webb telescope captures a supernova, corporatizing London’s creativity, and much more.
A View From the Easel
This week, studios in New York, California, Indiana, and Massachusetts.
The Story of Incarceration That Inspired a Nature Painter
The beauty of the natural world coupled with the tragedy of racial oppression led to Foad Satterfield’s painting series inspired by Albert Woodfox’s incarceration.
The Art of Home in Times of Isolation
In the wake of COVID-19’s house-bound isolation, art materials and motifs derived from the home seem charged with new meaning and a searching sense of reinvention.
Designing a Black Panther Revolution
A new exhibition at New York’s Poster House explores the civil rights militant group’s ingenious branding strategies.
After Earthquakes, Art in Istanbul Takes on New Resonance
Four exhibitions planned prior to the devastating earthquakes grapple with presciently timely themes of loss, healing and transformation.
In the Studio With Amos Kennedy
As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Angelina Lippert presents an exhibition to offer insight into her curatorial process.
The Artist Helping Resolve Detroit’s Housing Problems
Oren Goldenberg’s latest project involves creating affordable housing for artists in a former recycling center.
What Does Peter Doig Have to Do With the Impressionists?
A new exhibition at London’s Courtauld Gallery pits Doig against artists like Cézanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh. Does it work?
Celebrating America’s Forgotten Black Cowboys
Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy strives to correct the mainstream Western narrative of life on the range.
Things Go Wayward at the Hayward
The doomster title of Extinction Beckons at London’s Hayward Gallery had really got me going. Then, almost immediately, things started to go wrong.
Indigenous Artists Tell the Story of Hawaiian Surfing
He‘e Nalu: The Art and Legacy of Hawaiian Surfing centers the culture of Kānaka Maoli, the Indigenous people of Hawaii.
Art, Whiteness, and Empire
As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Dr. Kelli Morgan presents an exhibition to offer insight into her curatorial process.
Simone Forti Finds the Dancer Within Us
Forti started as a painter so it’s only natural that she would transform other artists and cultural workers into dancers.
Photography’s Power to Dismantle Orthodoxies
Dismantling Monoliths at SF Camera pits artists against the Western canon of photography.