Rashid Johnson Is “Not Afraid to Be Vulnerable”

Aug 20, 2025

Four months into the run of his career retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contemporary artist Rashid Johnson appeared on CBS Sunday Morning this week to discuss 30 years of art making. Johnson sat down with the network’s Alina Cho at his studio...

Vermeer and the Lost Art of Love Letters

Aug 20, 2025

Listen up, kids, this is how it worked: When an admirer decided to write to you, they’d take a sheet of paper, inscribe deep thoughts upon it, and mail it. A few days later, an envelope with your name on it would appear in the mailbox, like a gold nugget in a sandy...

The Power of Making Art From a Prison Cell

Aug 20, 2025

SANTA FE — Prison constricts human realities. One way to escape is through acts of imagination, as seen in an intricately folded paper eagle poised for takeoff in Between the Lines: Prison Art & Advocacy at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe. Made...

How Liberty Fabrics Weaves Design and Art History

Aug 20, 2025

In an 1889 Woman’s World article edited by Oscar Wilde, one writer called Liberty “the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.” Known for its bold floral fabrics since the late 19th century, the luxury department store on Great Marlborough Street continues to be...

Are Art History Majors More In Demand Than Computer Scientists?

Aug 20, 2025

Obtaining a computer science degree once seemed like the clearest path to a steady job and a high starting salary. By contrast, art history degree holders, as recently as 2022, could expect some of the highest rates of unemployment among recent university graduates....

Jin Meyerson’s Orbits of Belonging

Aug 20, 2025

Jin Meyerson, “EVENT HORIZON” (2025), oil on canvas (all photos Sigourney Schultz/Hyperallergic, unless otherwise noted) LOS ANGELES — On Christmas Eve 1968, astronaut William Anders captured the first color photograph of Earth from space as the Apollo 8...

Controversy-Ridden Documenta Gets First All-Women Artistic Team

Aug 20, 2025

An all-women ensemble of writers, educators, translators, and curators will helm the artistic direction for the next edition of the pentennial art show Documenta in Kassel, Germany, slated to take place from June 12 to September 19, 2027. The international exhibition...

Art on Paper Celebrates the Power of Paper-Based Art This Fall

Aug 20, 2025

Art on Paper, New York City’s celebrated fair dedicated to the creative potential of paper-based art, returns to Pier 36 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side for its eleventh edition during Armory Arts Week on September 4–7, 2025. Known for its lively atmosphere, innovative...