New Zealand Wants to Be the “Best Place to Have Herpes”

Jul 21, 2025

These days, everyone is trying to go viral, but when it comes to herpes, there’s still a lot of associated shame and depression. A recent ad campaign by the New Zealand Herpes Foundation (NZHF) is calling for the destigmatization of the condition with a clever and...

Israel Says It Will Hand Over Hebron Mosque to Settlers 

Jul 21, 2025

Israeli authorities in the Occupied West Bank are reportedly planning to seize control of the Ibrahimi Mosque, stripping the Palestinian-run Hebron Municipality of administrative responsibilities over the historic holy site. On Tuesday, July 15, the newspaper Israel...

Is Social Media Destroying Your Masterpieces?

Jul 19, 2025

This article originally appeared on my personal Substack, Clinsights as The Artist and The Masterpiece. Editor’s Note: In two days, this post will be locked and is available only to paid members because we don’t want this duplicate content on the open web...

An Absurd Take on Masahisa Fukase’s Darkness

Jul 19, 2025

Few of Japan’s great photographers had a career as bold and multifaceted as Masahisa Fukase. Though largely defined by his black and white magnum opus Ravens (1986), a book of photographs in which the photographer casts himself as the grim black bird, Fukase managed...

Member Event: Artists and the Alchemy of Color

Jul 19, 2025

Hyperallergic Members are invited to join us on August 12, 2025, for a virtual conversation with two renowned artists about the materiality of paint: Rina Banerjee and Ellie Irons. The speakers will delve into the particularities of working with different pigments and...

Trump Gifted Epstein a Lewd Drawing on His Birthday, Report Says

Jul 19, 2025

A crude sketch of a naked woman allegedly hand-drawn by President Donald Trump was in a salacious 50th birthday album gifted to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Wall Street Journal report published yesterday, July 17. Trump has denied...

The Very Welcome Return of the Folkestone Triennial

Jul 19, 2025

john gerrard’s Ghost Feed, photographed by Thierry Bal, 2025 © The sixth edition of the coastal-set public art exhibition poses the question, ‘How Lies The Land? ‘Eighteen artists from around the globe respond to the Kent town – its geography,...