Sylvia Sleigh, Kenneth Tam, Christine Sun Kim, Paul Gardère, and Rudy Burckhardt are ideal for anyone who desires a glimpse into an artist’s personal life and worldview.

The artist takes up the devastation of those whose lives have been shattered by the plummeting value of the taxicab medallion.

The artist makes the air hum with the previously unperceived dimensions of ordinary things, from the linework of movement to the music in everyday situations.

From AbEx giant Cy Twombly to explorations of assimilation by Serena Chang to the politics of prettiness in the portraits of Marie Laurencin, these shows deserve close looking.

His works are distinctly earthly endeavors, showcasing the human hand in all its striving.

Make sure to check out shows by the Guerrilla Girls and Etel Adnan this week, along with a collection of imagined books and other great exhibitions.

It’s clear that this exhibition was put together by a bunch of absolute nerds — and that’s a compliment of the highest order.

Kamari Carter’s political art, visionary Shaker art, and Esther Mahlangu's colorful geometries, along with many other in-person and online shows will beat your winter blues.

This year, we’re rereading a fictional dialogue by Oscar Wilde, bell hooks’s book of art criticism, prose poetry by Etel Adnan, and more titles that won’t make it onto most industry lists.

The Argentinian-born artist crafted riverbed sculptures and palimpsestic canvases, painstakingly layered paintings that have the effect of a well-worn memory rubbed away.

Hyperallergic editors round up the trends and habits we hope will be left behind in 2024 — and those we want to embrace more fully in the new year.

An eclectic round-up spanning feature-length investigative documentaries, avant-garde short films, YouTube essays, and even talk shows. 

No Vanitas paintings, no parables, no metaphors — just pigging out.

Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial reminds us of a wound on and of this nation, and the risks of forgetting.

Alvin Ailey, Jesse Krimes, Tina Girouard, Aboriginal bark painting, and more.

After being immersed in to hold a we at BRIC, I beheld the city with new eyes: steep subway steps, jagged sidewalks, casual cruelty built into our everyday lives.

Start off the month with thoughtful shows by a range of artists, from established names like Nan Goldin to newcomers like Rachel Martin and trailblazers like Elizabeth Catlett.

Usher in autumn with Leasho Johnson’s aqueous abstraction, iconic Windy City protest art, John Akomfrah’s elegy for the environment, stunning works on paper by Haegue Yang, and more.

The humans (and rats) of New York are rejoicing.

The Appearance at New York’s Americas Society succeeds in showcasing art by Asian artists in Latin America and the Caribbean without essentializing their identities.

Seven galleries show work by artists from Ukraine and its diaspora in a special exhibition at the fair.

Delve into the tales of a queer book conservator at The Met, an actress in the West Bank, a painter with a secret, and other characters whose lives intersect with art.

“[I] have always worked from the perspective of starting with home, then street, neighborhood, city, world,” the artist told Hyperallergic critic John Yau.

From the Bronx-forward work at Wave Hill down to Robert Podavano’s liminal paintings in Staten Island, shows that’ll make you want to stick around a sweltering city.

“I attribute what creativity I have to being gay,” explained the art historian and author in a conversation with Hyperallergic.

The artist, curator, and organizer opens up and blurs the boundaries between categories, experimenting with new spaces and methods of moving through the world.

The New York- and California-based artist, scholar, and mentor talks how her queerness shaped her expansive thinking and career.

The pair work in tandem across coasts to craft hilarious yet moving portraits of criminals including Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, and Anna Delvey.

As seen at Ridgewood Open Studios, a wide array of art, galleries, and studio spaces nestle in the crevices of this Queens neighborhood.

From an occult Renaissance manuscript and the history of eyeliner to Salman Rushdie’s new book, our staff and contributors have got you covered.

You can see these young makers exploring techniques, probing theory, trying things out — a refreshing feeling in a city of slick art in white cubes.

The artist wove together the irresolvable themes of identity, changeability, and memory both personal and historical.

Blue jeans patents, suffragette cookbooks, noise-making 19th-century children’s books, and so much more.

Get your comic fix with moving, witty, poignant books by Ai Weiwei, Tessa Hulls, Julia Wertz, Mattie Lubchansky, and more.

The company whose submersible infamously imploded last June will ferry artists 13,000 feet below sea level in a newly built vessel called Titan II.

Hyperallergic swiped through the Beta version of ArtAI, encountering the likes of Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, and Vincent Van Gogh.

From affordable art to photography to art books and more, the usual suspects return for a packed season.

As Princeton University Art Museum curator Zoe S. Kwok explains, the week ranks as “the most important annual event in Asian art outside of Asia.”

Though it occasionally stumbles, the first iteration of We Do Not Dream Alone signals a promising commitment to prolonged investment in art from the Asian diaspora in New York.

As a recent retrospective at Tate Modern demonstrates, even fitted with decades-old circuitry, Nam June Paik’s work still pulses with energy, breakneck and experimental.