At the Armory Show, First-Time Artists Steal the Spotlight

Sep 6, 2025

Calling Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka’s solo presentation at the Armory Show a “booth” feels somehow wrong, like a reduction of the all-encompassing sanctum that she and Toronto gallery Patel Brown assembled for the Manhattan art fair. Suspended gently from wooden rods are...

Rosalyn Drexler, Pop Artist and Polymath, Dies at 98

Sep 5, 2025

Polymathic artist Rosalyn Drexler — Pop Art icon, Emmy-winning screenwriter, and one-time wrestler — passed away at her home in New York yesterday, September 3, at age 98. Her death was confirmed by Garth Greenan Gallery, which represented her for a decade. ...

Four New York City Shows to See Right Now

Sep 4, 2025

Histories and futures crisscross in some of our favorite shows at the moment. Paper sculptures by Rejin Leys ensconce themselves in the past, installed throughout the historic King Manor Museum, while Christian Marclay imagines doors as portals for transformation in...

Marian Spore Bush Was Nobody’s “Visionary Artist”

Sep 3, 2025

“Who was Marian Spore Bush?” The question begins an essay by Bob Nickas, who curated the exhibition Marian Spore Bush: Life Afterlife, Works c. 1919–1945, currently at Karma. The artist’s first solo exhibition in almost 80 years, it feels extraordinarily modern in...

The Fetishistic Fiction of Museum “Tibetan” Shrines

Sep 2, 2025

If American museums were the only source of information about Tibetan Buddhist shrines, one would come away with the impression that shrines are elaborate, pristine environments layered with thangka paintings and silken finery amidst rows of statuary and ritual...

Art Dealers Get Candid Ahead of the Armory Show

Sep 1, 2025

Joe Amrhein and Susan Swenson were going to sit out the Armory Show this fall for the first time in a quarter century until they got a call last month from the fair’s director.  The owners of Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood initially...

We Are All Picasso’s Fishermen

Aug 26, 2025

Pablo Picasso’s “Night Fishing at Antibes” (1939) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (all photos Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic) A quick perusal of the headlines these days is enough for one to conclude that dictators don’t die but multiply, and that history doesn’t...

We Are All Picasso’s Fishermen

Aug 26, 2025

Pablo Picasso’s “Night Fishing at Antibes” (1939) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (all photos Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic) A quick perusal of the headlines these days is enough for one to conclude that dictators don’t die but multiply, and that history doesn’t...

First They Came for Black History

Aug 21, 2025

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, we find ourselves at a pivotal crossroads in the national conversation about identity, memory, and who gets to tell our story. This momentous semiquincentennial coincides with the centennial of Negro...

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....

This Is Not the Real Geronimo

Aug 19, 2025

Elbridge Ayer Burbank, “Geronimo” (1897), oil on canvas (image no copyright – United States, via the Newberry Library) Editor’s Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from Speculative Relations: Indigenous...