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Magdalena Abakanowicz Sculpted the Collective Body
Art Review Her organic sculptures convey a quiet power, the faceless anonymity of multitudes transformed into a collective oneness. Magdalena Abakanowicz, “Standing Mutants” (1992–94) (all photos Ela Bittencourt/Hyperallergic) PARIS — “The organicity of the human body we’re born inside of is encoded in us,” the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz once said in an interview. This read more
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70 Shows to See in NYC This Spring
New York Newsletter Our guide this season’s blockbuster shows and hidden gems in New York City is out. This is our offering, our paean, our plea to the spirits of spring: Hyperallergic’s long-awaited guide of more than 70 shows to see this season, should it ever deign to arrive. This year, we opted to sort read more
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Can Diya Vij Make NYC More Affordable for Artists?
New York City arts leaders are hopeful the new cultural affairs commissioner Diya Vij will tackle the industry’s affordability crisis at a time when the Trump administration slashed federal funding for arts organizations and New York’s artists are increasingly leaving the city due to its high cost of living. “I can’t think of anyone more read more
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Watermill Center Names Charles Chemin, Longtime Robert Wilson Collaborator, as Artistic Director
The Watermill Center, the interdisciplinary space in Water Mill, New York, founded by Robert Wilson, has appointed Charles Chemin to the role of artistic director. Chemin will take over the artistic vision of the organization, effectively succeeding Wilson, who selected Chemin for the role prior to his death in August 2025, per a release. Chemin read more
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Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash
DePaul University in Chicago will close its campus art museum on June 30 after projecting a major budget deficit in 2026. The private university’s president, Robert L. Manuel, first announced the looming shutdown of the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM) in a letter to students and staff last week, citing ongoing reviews of the school’s “long-term read more
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Our Critics Are Split on the Weirdest Whitney Biennial in Recent Memory
The Whitney Biennial is both the most important recurring art exhibition in the US and, often, the most polarizing one. During a year when notions about what does and doesn’t constitute Americanness are the subject of everyday discourse, this survey of American art has now returned for its 82nd edition at the Whitney Museum in read more
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Everyday Traces of NYC’s SWANA Diaspora
Art Review An exhibition at NYPL offers a window into life within this paradox where invisibility and visibility are two sides of the same coin. Mahka Eslami, photographs from the Bodega Boys series (2023–24) (all photos Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) Of all the topics addressed in Niyū Yūrk, a small but significant exhibition at the New York read more
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Tehran’s Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Damaged in US-Israel Bombing of Iran
The Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the heart of Tehran, has reportedly been damaged in US-Israeli airstrikes as the military campaign against Iran spirals into a wider regional conflict. According to Iran’s cultural heritage minister, Reza Salehi-Amiri, debris and blast shockwaves from a strike near Arag Square in southern Tehran damaged the read more
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Jeff Koons’s Winter Bears Sells for $7.6 M. at Christie’s, Highest Price Ever Achieved for an Artwork in a Mid-Season Sale
If the $7.6 million paid for a four-foot-tall set of smiling wooden bears has anything to do with it, the price point for the mid-season sales at the major auction houses might be about to go up. Last Thursday, Christie’s sold Jeff Koons’s 1988 sculpture Winter Bears (1988) with a pre-sale estimate of $3.8 million–$5 read more
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'Architectural Fantasies' Chronicles Elaborate Creations by Self-Taught Artists
What began as a pile of dirt, rubble, and cement in rural Niland, California, just east of the Salton Sea, eventually became one of the most beloved landmarks and roadside attractions in the region. “Salvation Mountain,” Leonard Knight’s vibrantly painted, three-story mound made of adobe and straw, stands as a tribute to one man’s tenacity read more
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Call for Applications: 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship
Announcement The Center for Craft will award up to four $5,000 fellowships to support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in an article on Hyperallergic. The Center for Craft is now accepting applications for the 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship, offering four $5,000 awards to support research on underrepresented craft histories in the United States. The read more
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The 2026 Whitney Biennial Includes a Video Game Designed by Leo Castañeda You Can Play At Home
While the Whitney Biennial isn’t set to open its 2026 edition to the public until Sunday, anyone can get a sneak peek at one work in the show: Camoflux Recall Grotto. The work, a video game by Colombian artist Leo Castañeda, is available to play on the web from any computer. For the work, Castañeda read more
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Russia’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Is Set to Reopen This Year, But Officials Say It Isn’t a ‘Return’
After closing for the last two editions of the Venice Biennale following its war in Ukraine, Russia will reopen its national pavilion this year, its organizers told ARTnews. In February 2022, Russian artists Kirill Savchenkov and Alexandra Sukhareva, along with Lithuanian curator Raimundas Malašauskas, withdrew from the pavilion from that year’s Biennale, citing Moscow’s invasion read more
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European Alliance Pledges Financial Support for Artistic Freedom, Iranian Artists Both Terrified and Joyful as War Continues, and More: Morning Links for March 3, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. Good morning! The European Alliance of Academies has launched a nearly $2 million plan to support artistic freedom under pressure in Europe. Iranian artists in the diaspora are torn between the joyful hope of regime change and fear of rising casualties amid the ongoing war. read more
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Vancouver Art Gallery Announces Major Gift of Stephen Shore Photographs
The Vancouver Art Gallery announced this week that it has received a gift of more than 800 works from American photographer Stephen Shore’s series “Uncommon Places.” The donation comes from the Vancouver-based Chan family, which has long supported the museum. Taken on road trips across North America between 1973 and 1981, “Uncommon Places” is considered read more
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Art Spring in NYC
Daily Newsletter The best shows to see across the city this season, SVA shuts down curatorial practices program, Art Crossword, March opportunities, and more. Enough with those filthy glaciers on our sidewalks — the Hyperallergic Spring 2026 New York Art Guide is here! With 70-plus shows, it’s all you need to know about the major read more
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Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) Details Her Pointed Work on the Cover of Art in America
In many ways, the confrontational cover of this issue needs no explanation: Lady Liberty is dead. But when A.i.A. sat down with the artist Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) to talk about her sculpture Liberté Morte (Dead Liberty),2025, she shared an enlightening story about how the work extends the lineage of her lexicon. In 2016, read more
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Supreme Court Declines to Reconsider Copyright Case on AI Art
The US Supreme Court said on Monday that it will not hear a case over whether art by artificial intelligence can recieve copyright protection. The decision all but ends the years-long quest by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to have art crafted by his AI system “DABUS” recieve federal copyright protection. In a 2024 profile in read more
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Tshepiso Moropa blends Setswana folklore in archival collages
Using personal and archival images, Tshepiso Moropa cuts and splices delicate collages that consider the ever-evolving nature of the stories we tell. The self-taught artist draws on her background in psychology and linguistics as she plumbs African archives and oral histories, reinterpreting her findings through minimal, yet weighty compositions. Moropa often grounds her works within read more
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Illustrator Spotlight: Starrenco
A selection of work from Italian artist and illustrator Costanza Starrabba aka Starrenco. Starrenco studied illustration at IED Rome before moving to Milan for her Master’s. While grounded in reality, Starrenco’s work offers a distortion or reinterpretation of select elements, colours and dynamics, resulting in slightly disorienting imaginary worlds. Her images reflect both intentional planning read more
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