For The Better

Just as memes of the viral hippo range from sweet to spooky, art history is rich with terrifying, adorable, and bizarre depictions of the amphibious creatures.

“It’s about people with the courage and perseverance to insist that politicians and media tell the truth,” the artist told Hyperallergic.

Her sculptures for The Met’s facade commission look like they’ve always been there, Frankensteined in the bowels of the museum’s ethnographic collections.

Tanning’s practice shows that there is always another door to open, a new world to explore, and that art offers us another possible existence.

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History features the work of Baldwin-obsessed artist Sabrina Nelson on the centennial of the famed author’s birth.