Tag: Art

On June 29, 1892, in the town of Necochea, located in the southeast of Argentina in the province of Buenos Aires, two young children were discovered brutally murdered in their home. The victims were six-year-old Ponciano Carballo Rojas and his four-year-old sister, Feliza. Their throats had been slit. Their mother, Francesca Rojas, also sustained a… Continue reading Francesca Rojas: The First Murderer to be Apprehended by Fingerprint Evidence

The Chicago-based human rights organization Justice For All has filed a submission with the International Criminal Court (ICC) arguing that the Israeli military’s partial destruction of the Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City last October constitutes a war crime.  Situated in Gaza’s Old City, the Saint Porphyrios Church is considered one of the… Continue reading Israel Strike on Gaza Church Was a War Crime, Says Human Rights Group

Marcelle Reinecke, “Detour” (2024), acrylic and flashe on panel, 20 x 16 inches (image courtesy the Ruffed Grouse Gallery) In his celebrated “Sonnet 18” (1609), Shakespeare writes that “rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” So, too, does the lively art scene in Upstate New York flutter with a robust round of shows… Continue reading 10 Exhibitions to See in Upstate New York This May

LONDON — Sometimes life gets a little queasy. Take today, for example, as I walk toward the entrance to the Press View (my capitals) of a new show called Expressionists at Tate Modern.  The table is laid with heaps of paper to be given away — and one to be signed to prove you are… Continue reading Expressionists Great and Not So Great

EVERGLADES CITY, Florida — Typically, the seaside town of Everglades City is quiet on a Saturday morning. But during the three days of the annual Seafood Festival in January, the streets were packed with locals and tourists clamoring for a bit of Floridian ease. This year, a special treat awaited them inside the bubblegum-colored walls… Continue reading Exhibition Tells the Still-Evolving Story of the Miccosukee

Earlier this month, a representative for Related Companies, the developer responsible for $60 billion worth of real estate including the glorified Manhattan shopping complex known as Hudson Yards, announced that it will reopen its Vessel after nearly three years of closure and four deaths by suicide. The 150-foot nest of interlocking copper-colored staircases will be… Continue reading Why the Vessel Should Remain Closed for Good

Faith Ringgold, “Picnic on the Grass Alone: The American Collection #12” (1997), acrylic on canvas with painted and pieced fabric (all photos Jasmine Weber/Hyperallergic) Faith Ringgold paved the way. For Black women artists, writers, and activists, her legacy exemplifies the possibilities of creativity. She showed us that we could be pensive, radical, tender, sensual, and maternal;… Continue reading Faith Ringgold Paved the Way

VENICE — The 60th Venice Biennale’s theme of “Foreigners Everywhere” includes a number of communities historically overlooked in art, like folks from queer, indigenous, and immigrant backgrounds. While disability does appear in specific works of art, it’s not a major presence. So I was pleased to learn about Crip Arte Spazio, an exhibition about the Disability… Continue reading A Venice Show Centers Disability Justice

LONDON — Sprawling across the two floors of the Barbican Centre’s art gallery, Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art is an eclectic global showcase of works made from fabric and thread. Exploring a massive tangle of interconnected themes — systemic oppression and war, violence and trauma, loss and grief, politics and protest,… Continue reading The Fibers That Make Up Our Lives

Joy Curtis’s work was not always so soft, though it has always been precise in its peculiarity and guilelessness. Whereas her sculptural work c. 2014 mined a vocabulary of connective fascia, architectural lintels, and molding, Curtis now deals in innards, skin, and bones. Her current show at Klaus von Nichtssagend gallery, titled Night Hike and… Continue reading The Bone Magic of Joy Curtis

Shanequa Gay, “gateway to the south” (2024), flashe, oil, acrylic, gouache, aerosol, collage paper) on wood panel, 60 x 40 inches (all image courtesy the artist and Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta) ATLANTA — Jackson Fine Art, a gallery moderate in size, is filled to the brim with paintings, collages, ceramics, photo transfers on aluminum, quilting,… Continue reading Shanequa Gay Completes a Work Begun a Century Ago

The Gaza solidarity encampment at the City College of New York on Friday, April 26, 2024 (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) As of 9am yesterday, April 25, some 300 City College of New York (CCNY) community members have taken over the campus quad along Convent Avenue in upper Manhattan in an art-filled Gaza solidarity encampment. The students… Continue reading Hundreds Take to City College in Art-Filled Gaza Solidarity Encampment

After a stint in a soulless Midtown Manhattan space last year, the world’s longest-running photo fair returns this weekend with a 77-exhibitor lineup at the much less insipid Park Avenue Armory. From overlooked Polaroids to glossy celebrity portraits to manipulated images that grapple with painful personal histories, the show presented by the Association of International… Continue reading NYC’s Longest-Running Photo Fair Is Back, and Packs a Punch

At a high-traffic corner of the New York Art Book Fair (NYABF), I found myself blinking at an arrangement of potato-shaped stress balls bearing the logo of Berkeley’s Apogee Press. “One of them is a real potato,” artist Asha Schechter teased, and for a moment I almost believed it. This year’s edition of the go-to… Continue reading Palestine Solidarity Shines at the New York Art Book Fair

LOS ANGELES — John Lithgow has an illustrious acting career going back five decades, with memorable roles on stage, screen, and TV — yet he recently decided to go back to school to broaden his arts education. His journey is the premise of Art Happens Here With John Lithgow, a one-hour PBS special premiering tonight… Continue reading At Age 78, Actor John Lithgow Goes Back to Art School

UTICA, New York — A 2022 New York Times article by Susan Hartman, “How Refugees Transformed a Dying Rust Belt Town,” details how Utica, New York, was reinvigorated when it became the new home of refugees escaping war and persecution in countries including Bosnia, Myanmar, and Somalia. The US Census Bureau estimates that about 22% of… Continue reading Migration Stories From World War II to Now

Keith Haring may be a New York icon, but a part of his legacy lives on in Iowa City. The street artist’s special mural for the students of Ernest Horn Elementary is set to be displayed to the public for the first time while the school undergoes necessary renovations. From May 4 through the first… Continue reading When Keith Haring Painted a Mural for an Iowa Elementary School

“This address was my favorite spot,” veteran art dealer Betty Cuningham told Hyperallergic on a sunny spring morning at her longtime gallery space on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. A staple figure in the New York art scene since opening her first venture, Cuningham Ward, in 1972, she has operated her namesake space at 15 Rivington… Continue reading What’s Behind the Recent Wave of New York Gallery Closures?

On April 1, the Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) in Philadelphia shared a post on Instagram announcing an “ambitious expansion” of their mission to “unearth the forgotten textile relics” from “Meemaw’s Attic.” Initially, several commenters expressed genuine excitement at this new venture. But as it became clear that the post was made as an April… Continue reading My Grandma’s Doilies Are Not a Joke

VENICE — W. Bruce C. Bailey, philanthropist and collector, is pacing up and down the nave of the Venetian church of San Samuele, telling all who will listen about the exhibition we are so looking forward to seeing. We? At this moment about six of us are at the press opening, and I have just deposited… Continue reading Goya and Dix Just Needed a Rainbow

ZURICH — On a recent trip to this city, I found it energized by exhibitions that compose a vivid picture of women’s historical underrepresentation in art and museums. In particular, the shows all foreground patterns of disruption that hinder women’s art careers.  At Kunsthaus Zurich, ReCollect!, a vibrant exhibition decrying this lack of representation, occupies… Continue reading When Will Women Artists Be Equal?

The American Folk Art Museum proudly announces an electrifying benefit event headlined by Nadya Tolokonnikova, the iconic artist and activist behind the renowned feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot. The event, slated for May 16 at the Society for Ethical Culture in New York City, will not only showcase Tolokonnikova’s recent artworks in a pop-up… Continue reading Nadya Tolonnikova Headlines American Folk Art Museum Benefit Event