Arts

We can’t promise you won’t get lost in a maze of booths, but we can steer you to the fairs worth the trip.

Steve Wasterval stashes his tiny paintings of Greenpoint locales in traffic cones, behind telephone pole flyers, and even at Citi Bike stations.

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 […]

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 […]

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

In his latest exhibition, artist Francis Alÿs points to the powerful potential of play to bring people together.

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

The quilts in Pattern and Paradox exist at the intersections of tradition and innovation, the humble and the spectacular.

Cheerfully disquieting and unapologetically erudite, his paintings ask viewers to embrace the illusion.

The fluidity of the artist’s line parallels her thought process and openness to taking unexpected paths, often prompted by a memory or life event.

The artist’s embroidered works suggest the need for collectivity to overcome common struggles such as environmental destruction.

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.

For professional sports photographers, the bizarre expressions are a mark of incredible athletic agility.

A two-part, bicoastal exhibition centers a group of artists united by their distinctive DIY spirit, subversive humor, and common interest in feminism.

Two dozen works by artists of color document identity, diaspora, and tradition in the neighborhood’s first large-scale public art exhibition.

In her computer-based works, the artist sought freedom within systematism and improvisation within predictability.

A short film spotlights Eversmeyer’s “oral herstory project,” a collection of around 940 interviews with approximately 900 women.

A French museum show documenting the rise of Europe’s nudist communities invites visitors in their birthday suits.

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.