How Alternative Art Spaces Changed Los Angeles in the 1970s
Throughout the 1970s and into the ’80s, artists in Los Angeles created organizations and exhibition spaces to develop the resources they lacked.
Tax Season Is Open. Here’s How to Get a Faster Refund.
Want your money sooner? Here’s how to make that happen.
Subtle and Finessed Depictions at the Master Drawings Fair
The close, careful, and subtle observation I found this year is representative of precisely why I continue to gravitate to this fair.
“Mothers March On” and Beholding, Black World Making
How do we counter stereotypes about Black mothers, while stressing the importance of memory, determination, love, and corporeality?
The Phillips Collection Celebrates a Century by Centering Black Abstraction
With two stellar retrospectives, one time-based installation, and several commissions by local artists, the Phillips Collection has dedicated its galleries to highlighting abstract work by Black artists.
The great renaming: what happened to Eth2?
Ethereum is a protocol undergoing significant changes. Client teams are upgrading the protocol to scale to meet global demand while improving security and decentralization. Beyond protocol development, a critical shift in Ethereum has been the movement…
A Photographer’s Portrait of the Theater of the Streets
A pioneer of street photography, Levitt worked in the most crowded and poorest neighborhoods of New York searching for the theater of everyday life.
The Materiality of Memory in the Paintings of Eugène Leroy
Leroy’s canvases seem to be about age and decay — about the process and limits of recollection made manifest.
Art Classes Are Helping Transform Medical Education
Classes like Anne Willieme’s are part of the burgeoning field of medical humanities, which aims to tackle the disciplinary divide between art and science.
Native American Sovereignty’s Impact on the Curation of Indigenous Art
Join Hyperallergic for an online conversation with Kiowa Tribal Museum Director Tahnee Ahtone on January 25 at 7pm (EST).
Required Reading
This week, Patrisse Cullors speaks, reviewing John Richardson’s final Picasso book, the Met Museum snags a rare oil on copper by Nicolas Poussin, and much more.
Something Is Not Right With The World
Alexi Worth’s paintings demand a double take that allows viewers to look closer and begin dissembling the painting in order to understand what is being looked at.
An Artist’s Altar to Divine Feminine Energy
Anastasia Pelias’s sculpture builds on this mythological legacy, suggesting we all have the ability to commune with a higher power and influence our futures.
3 Reasons It Pays to File Your Taxes Early in 2022
This isn’t the year to procrastinate.
Beholding and Curating With Care
Curator La Tanya S. Autry shares a set of crucial questions she considers when curating images of anti-Black violence.
Paintings that Honor the Privacy of Grief
Crys Yin’s subject is grief, which, for all that takes place in public, is largely a private matter.
Using Clay to Concretize the Psychological State of Being Wounded
With her clay relief sculptures, Brie Ruais probes the exit wound and its deep psychological implications.
A Historical Art of Dissent for the Digital Age
In Doomscrolling, Rob Swainston and Zorawar Sidhu assume the task Walter Benjamin set for the articulation of history — to “seize hold of the past as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”
Saying Maybe to the Yes Men
As much as I appreciate the collective’s culture jamming initiatives, I don’t know that their putative premise ever bears meaningful fruit.