Laurie Anderson Isn’t Playing Games

Laurie Anderson playing Puppet Motel, her 1994 game (photo Nora Claire Miller/Hyperallergic) In 1995, American musician and artist Laurie Anderson created a CD-ROM computer game called Puppet Motel in collaboration with artist Hsin-Chien Huang. Thirty years later, I...

Meet Hyperallergic’s New Editor-in-Chief 

Four weeks ago, I became a new American. It was a momentous finale to a quarter-century odyssey that started at the cusp of the millennium and ended just last month. The road here was anything but straight, twisting through bureaucratic brambles and detours. Yet,...

Five Artists Share Their Work in This Year’s Made in LA Biennial

LOS ANGELES — The Hammer Museum’s biennial, Made in LA, provides a snapshot of the state of contemporary art throughout the greater region, attempting to give coherent form to its sprawling and heterogeneous artistic landscape. With this year’s edition, opening to the...

Outgoing MoMA Director Glenn Lowry to Advise Saudi-Backed Biennial 

Glenn Lowry, the outgoing director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, will work as an advisor to the Islamic Arts Biennale in Saudi Arabia, he revealed in an interview this week. Lowry, who announced his decision to leave MoMA last September, will be...

Madison Square Park Glows Up With Larry Bell’s Glass Cubes

The austere glass cubes for which Larry Bell is best known landed in New York City’s Madison Square Park this fall. Concurrently, a smaller show at the Judd Foundation showcases his lesser-known works on canvas, which Flavin Judd organized at his father’s art...

Lorna Simpson’s Black American Sublime 

I’m a staunch believer that Lorna Simpson is one of the most important photographers of her generation, so I’m pained to report that Source Notes — a monographic exhibition of the artist’s paintings at The Met — is a mixed bag. Conceptually, the work is just as strong...

What Does It Mean to Exhibit the Gun That Killed Emmett Till? 

A few weeks ago, when I heard that the gun used to kill Emmett Till was being acquired by the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, I found myself wrestling with heavy thoughts and emotions.  Seventy years have passed since J.W....

The São Paulo Biennial Is the Calm Before a Storm

SÃO PAULO — At the pre-opening of the 36th São Paulo Biennial on September 5, a spiritual procession filled the austere Cecilio Matarazzo Pavilion in Parque Ibirapuera with rousing drums and smoke. With the festivities of poetry readings and live performances...

The New York Film Festival Dives Into the Art Scene

In 1974, writer Linda Rosenkrantz sat down with pioneering queer photographer Peter Hujar as part of a project for which she had subjects record everything that happened during a single day, and then talk with her about that day. She didn’t end up using the...

The New York Film Festival Dives Into the Art Scene

In 1974, writer Linda Rosenkrantz sat down with pioneering queer photographer Peter Hujar as part of a project for which she had subjects record everything that happened during a single day, and then talk with her about that day. She didn’t end up using the...

Remembering the Pigment Shop That Taught Me How to See

Upon entering Kremer Pigments on 29th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, visitors were greeted by bags and bottles of color: lapis lazuli, vermillion, malachite, a wide variety of ochres and iron oxides, oils from walnut, sunflower. There was even a corner in the...

Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now

The home, the psyche, the mortal coil — it’s barely fall and artists are already alluding to the existential territory that encroaches as each year comes to a close. Perhaps introspection is just what we need right now; as AX Mina’s art tarotscope noted last week,...