Chicago Nonprofit Celebrates a Decade of Serving Unhoused Artists

Jul 23, 2025

CHICAGO — Do people need art? I know I always have, as something to enjoy, discuss, learn from, be puzzled by, and sometimes create. Obviously, I need food, shelter, and clothing first, but beyond that, art has given me a myriad of ways through which to engage with...

Trump Withdraws US From UNESCO, Again

Jul 23, 2025

President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the second time in the government’s latest blow to global cultural heritage preservation. In a brief statement posted to the...

Chance Encounters at Upstate Art Weekend

Jul 23, 2025

The month of July brings Upstate Art Weekend (UAW), an annual summer cornucopia of art in the region. Launched in 2020 with 23 organizations, UAW has expanded to include more than 155 participants located across the map, from Nyack in the south and Kinderhook in the...

Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now

Jul 23, 2025

Worldbuilding and building better worlds — these are idealistic notions that can become indulgences in the art world. But, to paraphrase Hyperalleric’s Editor-in-Chief, Hrag Vartanian, in his review of artist Saya Woolfalk’s current survey, when executed well, they...

The Queens Phone Repair Shop Meets the Museum 

Jul 23, 2025

The For You page, as the popular TikTok comment goes, is getting too local. I, for one, am grateful. Umber Majeed’s exhibition J😊Y TECH draws from the visual vernacular of phone repair stores in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens — their densely packed...

Bidding Adieu to Art Deco’s Democratic Dream

Jul 23, 2025

For sale: a 1,046-foot-tall, 77-story building with a footprint of 1,196,958 square feet, constructed in a steel frame and adorned in gray and white brick with reinforced steel accents, constructed 95 years ago. Located at 42nd and Lexington Avenue in New York City,...