10 Contemporary Roma Artists You Should Know

Earlier this year, my friend walked by Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s billboard “Beyond the Horizon” (2024–25), part of her On the Journey (2024) series. The work, displayed on a billboard on 18th street adjacent to the High Line in the heart of Manhattan, made...

Six Artists Win MacArthur “Genius” Grants

Six visual artists and photographers — Matt Black, Garrett Bradley, Jeremy Frey, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and Gala Porras-Kim — are among the 22 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Fellowship, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...

Get Artsy With Your Costumes for Hyperallergic’s Halloween Party

Calling all ghouls, ghosts, and gallerinas — this Halloween, we’re teaming up with our friends at the Francis Kite Club in NYC to host an art-inspired costume party. Join Hyperallergic staff, contributors, friends, and fellow Hyperallergic and Francis Kite Club...

Humans of New York Takes Over Grand Central

Brandon Stanton, the photographer behind the tremendously popular photo series Humans of New York, has spent most of his savings from the last 15 years on his latest project: a monumental installation at Grand Central Terminal. Stanton’s public photo installation Dear...

The Women Artists Who Found Freedom in Old Age

In 1982, the Museum of Modern Art staged the first-ever major retrospective dedicated to the work of Louise Bourgeois. She was 70 years old. The overdue exhibition was intended to solidify Bourgeois’s legacy, to recognize more than half a century of creative output....

The Slow, Easy Splendor of Peter Hujar’s Day

One early winter Thursday in 1974, writer Linda Rosenkrantz recorded photographer Peter Hujar as he recounted his activities over a 24-hour period. What was meant to spark a larger creative project never came to fruition, but finds new life some 50 years later in...

Portrait of Enslaved Man Dispels Years of Falsehoods 

For decades, the truth about Frederick Baker’s life under enslavement was enshrouded in a whitewashed history perpetuated by the local historians of Longwood mansion in Natchez, Mississippi. Now, new research on a rare pre-Emancipation artwork that has long been on...

Exhibition Strategies: MassArt Graduate Gallery Thinks Beyond Campus  

Located in Boston’s vibrant South of Washington arts district, MassArt x SoWa is a unique off-campus gallery that exclusively highlights the work of Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) graduate students and alumni. In 2021, the MassArt grad program was...

Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World

In celebration of the centennial of Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) presents Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World. This dynamic exhibition explores Rauschenberg’s innovative integration of photography...