For The Better

Join Hyperallergic for an online conversation with cultural organizer and curator La Tanya S. Autry on February 1 at 7pm (EST).

This week, the Tonga eruption as captured from space, Boston gets a big gift of Dutch and Flemish painting, 30 years of New Queer Cinema, an important Marcel Breuer house is demolished, and much more.

Being bowled over by an unknown artist’s first one-person show does not happen often but when it does, it renews your faith that the art world is not just about buzz and hype.

Surrealist images of a Rice Krispies box or Yukon Gold potato explore how data is transformed into the visual language called art.

What is wonderful about the online photography exhibition What Have We Stopped Hiding? is that one is given entrée to the internal monologue of the artists featured in the show.

Self-taught artists were invited to exhibit, and sell, their fuzzy stacks of pancakes and tasseled tapestries.

In his new works, Gober pulled me into another world, one that was both illuminated by natural light and full of cold shadows.

What’s difficult, perhaps impossible, to show in art is the experience of what passes beyond all comprehension.

Testament at Goldsmiths College asks: Can any monument be removed of its tarnish?

To understand contemporary art, it is necessary to investigate the connections that are sometimes omitted or undervalued in art history.

Gearhart founded a print gallery with her sisters and was at the center of the Arts and Crafts movement in southern California.

Video art was something you watched “with the lights on,” as França insisted, without pretenses of high art.

PHASE 2 would emerge as an innovator in New York’s burgeoning subway art movement, creating elaborate murals that would shape the evolution of both the spray can and the art form.

While the South Asian diaspora is one of the largest and most widely dispersed in the world, the Indo-Caribbean community is often overlooked and excluded from discussions of South Asian art.

The Bay Area artist believed in shaping artists rather than relaying rules.

Open-ended, community based, and collaborative, “esolangs” serve as a reminder that digital art has other histories and other futures.

Working with what they had, Cass Corridor artists scrapped and repurposed anything they could get their hands on, attempting to find some salvation for their city through a literal process of salvage and reuse.