Category: art
Creativity, design, culture, inspiration
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A Rotoscoped Film Underscores How Fantasy Is the Only Reprieve in Solitary Confinement
For Kiana Calloway, the brick wall became a green screen for theatrical performances and football games. For Sunny Jacobs, meditation brought her to a lush patch of grass and her children’s rooms at bedtime. And for Frank De Palma, 22 years without a mirror meant he didn’t recognize the man who finally emerged from the read more
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Accessibility Should Be at the Center of Museum Education
Opinion Art history departments often fail to embed disability studies into their curricula when engaging with art, politics, and identity. Installation view of Judith Scott — Bound and Unbound at the Brooklyn Museum in 2014–15 (photo Allison Meier/Hyperallergic) Education departments in museums have always been a north star for accessibility in the arts. Decades-old programs read more
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Philadelphia Art Museum Might Rebrand Its Botched Rebrand
News The institution set up a task force to evaluate the controversial new brand identity as it parts ways with its chief marketing officer. Philadelphia Art Museum’s campus upon debuting its institutional rebrand last October (photo by Rob Cusick, courtesy the museum) The Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM) might be looking at rebranding its rebrand in read more
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Yasha Grobman Appointed Director of the Israel Museum
Yasha Grobmanhas been appointed director general of theIsrael Museumin Jerusalem, according toHaaretz, ending a prolonged leadership crisis at one of Israel’s most prominent cultural institutions. Grobman will succeedSuzanne Landau, who stepped down in early January after serving as interim director since September 2023. The appointment follows what the museum described as a lengthy and discreet read more
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Philadelphia Art Museum Executive Behind Controversial Rebrand Resigns
The marketing executive behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s divisive rebranding campaign has resigned, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Paul Dien, who joined the museum in 2023 as chief marketing under former museum director and CEO Sasha Suda, will leave effective February 1, the museum confirmed. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dien has accepted a consultancy read more
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New Artwork on National Mall Lampoons Trump-Epstein Birthday Card
News The sculpture’s authors told Hyperallergic that they erected the piece after the government failed to release the complete Epstein files. A replica of Trump’s alleged birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein appeared on the National Mall on January 18, 2026. (photo courtesy Secret Handshake; all others Emma Cieslik/Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC —A participatory public artwork drawing read more
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Archeologists Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Basilica Designed by Vitruvius: ‘The Tutankhamun of the 21st Century’
Italian officials unveiled the discovery of a 2,000-year-old basilica that archeologists have attributed to Vitruvius, the ancient Roman architect, at a press conference on Monday, according to a report in Reuters. The ancient basilica, which would have been used as a public building in ancient Rome, was built at Fanum Fortunae and completed in 19 read more
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Governor Gavin Newsom Says He ‘Had No Clue’ California College of the Arts Would Close
When news broke last week that California College of the Arts would close in 2027, the announcement came as a shock to students and the broader art world. It also appears to have caught one key figure off guard: Governor Gavin Newsom. The San Francisco Standard reported that text messages sent by Newsom after the read more
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2024 Was a Record Year for Archeological Finds Made by the British Public
The British Museum announced today that 2024 was a record year for archeological discoveries made in the UK by members of the public, with 79,616 finds recorded. Of those, 1540 were “treasure” as defined by the UK’s 1996 Treasure Act, the highest number ever recorded for a single year. The announcement was first reported by read more
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Clouds Billow and Caverns Melt in Gabe Benzur's Mystical Landscapes
Otherworldly riverine landscapes unfold beneath green clouds, and uncanny caverns are dotted with cotton candy-like shrubs in the surreal oil paintings of Gabe Benzur. With color forefront in his mind, the Brooklyn-based artist’s compositions teeter between representation and imagination. He begins by creating scenes digitally, then transfers the renderings into drawings, followed by canvases. Benzur read more
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Serpentine Pavilion Commission Goes to Mexican Architects LANZA atelier
The commission for the design of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion—a prestigious project for artists and architects connected to the Serpentine Galleries in London’s Kensington Gardens—has gone to LANZA atelier, a Mexico City–based architecture studio founded by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo. The unveiling on June 6 will mark the 25th anniversary of the Serpentine Pavilion, read more
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What Art Films to See at Sundance This Year
Previews Art-related features at the film festival run the gamut from niche subjects to crowd pleasers. Still from The Gallerist, dir. Cathy Yan (all images courtesy the Sundance Film Festival) Across nearly five decades, the Sundance Film Festival has evolved from a small showcase for independent film into one of the premier festivals in the read more
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Michael Jackson’s Rarely Seen Art to Go on View in Traveling Museum Debuting in Monaco
While Michael Jackson‘s music will come into focus through a blockbuster biopic set for the big screen this year, a lesser-seen part of his oeuvre, his visual art, could soon be headed to a gallery near you. Jermaine Jackson, the singer’s older brother, revealed plans this past December to launch a touring museum that will read more
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Iconic Fashion Designer and Art Collector Valentino Garavani Dies at 93
Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani died in Rome, the birthplace of his eponymous brand, on Jan. 19 at age 93. Garavani was born in Voghera, a town south of Milan in northern Italy. He moved to Paris as a young man, where he continued his fashion studies and worked for French designers Jean Dessès and read more
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NEH Awards $75.1 M. In Grants to Projects Promoting Classical Arts, Conservative Values
The National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has awarded $75.1 million to 84 projects, marking its first round of grants since President Donald Trump dismissed nearly all members of the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory body that helps set NEH funding priorities, last fall. The funded projects span a wide range of subject read more
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Painting From The Inside Out With Christian Van Minnen – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Strange—the sensation one gets when confronted with mounds of bruised, tumorous flesh, mingled with various forbidden fruits, festering produce, and delicious looking gummy forms. Such is the kind of disorienting cornucopia that Christian Rex van Minnen brings to the table. Gazing into these luscious assortments, we just may feel tempted to reach out and give read more
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Philip Leider, Artforum Founding Editor Who Shaped a Changing Art World, Dies at 96
Philip Leider, the founding editor of Artforum, died at his home in Berkeley, California, on January 11 at 96. Artforum announced his death over the weekend, but did not state a cause. Leider’s career arc was an unusual one. He helped turn Artforum into a go-to source for serious, no-nonsense art criticism, serving as its read more
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John Wilson Bears Witness
New York Newsletter The Met has a union, John Wilson has a message, Ana Mendieta’s traces, and other happenings around the city this week. Wow, it’s cold out there. This morning, as I was getting absolutely wrecked by the wind on the walk to work through McCarren Park, I spotted a lone snowman, sitting upon read more
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Yoko Ono’s Art Is an Exercise in Hope
CHICAGO — With her iconic long dark hair curtaining her demure countenance, Yoko Ono has been in my personal pantheon of women makers for most of my life. When I was a distraught teenager in a midwestern suburb, she was there — singing discordant arias from my bedroom stereo. Her siren call couldn’t quite be read more
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Hard Choices: Can You Still Hack Being a Contemporary Art Curator?
With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver a quiz full ofhard choicesforArt in Americareaders from far and wide. You landed a desirable museum job as a contemporary art curator in the mid-2000s and quickly became a power broker on the scene. Back read more
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