How Do You Remember a Home Reduced to Rubble?

Aug 4, 2025

Installation view of Patterns of Life by Mona Chalabi and SITU Research at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (© Smithsonian Institution, photo by Elliot Goldstein) As Israel’s assault on Gaza rages on and residences across the 140-square-mile strip continue to...

Homeland Security’s Genocidal Aesthetics

Aug 2, 2025

The Department of Homeland Security posted John Gast’s 1872 painting “American Progress” (screenshot Hyperallergic, via X) Prussian painter John Gast’s 1872 composition “American Progress,” now held by the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, isn’t very...

Man Dies in Whitney Museum Fall

Jul 31, 2025

A 34-year-old man died after a fall from the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan on Wednesday, July 30. Police responded to a 911 call at around 5:26pm, the New York Police Department (NYPD) told Hyperallergic. Upon arrival at 99 Gansevoort Street, they found...

The Berlin Biennale’s Complicit Silence

Jul 31, 2025

BERLIN — The Berlin Biennale had not even opened its doors to the public when criticism started rolling in. In May, curator Zasha Colah told an interviewer, “There is no censorship, I would say, in Germany.” In reality, there is ample documentation of the German...

Met Museum Trustee Among Victims of Midtown Manhattan Shooting

Jul 30, 2025

Wesley LePatner (image courtesy Blackstone) Wesley LePatner, an elective trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Blackstone executive, was among the four individuals killed after a gunman opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building yesterday evening, July...

A Paean to the Bygone “Borscht Belt”

Jul 29, 2025

LOS ANGELES — From the 1920s to ’60s, the Catskill Mountains, with its woody resorts and bungalows, were a playground for middle-class Jewish families traveling Upstate from New York City. Dads grilled while lounging mothers shielded beehive hairdos from their...

The Friendship That Transformed Frida Kahlo 

Jul 25, 2025

Frida Kahlo, “Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (Autorretrato con pelo cortado)” (1940), oil on canvas (Digital Image © 2025 MoMA, N.Y.; © 2025 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)...

Chance Encounters at Upstate Art Weekend

Jul 23, 2025

The month of July brings Upstate Art Weekend (UAW), an annual summer cornucopia of art in the region. Launched in 2020 with 23 organizations, UAW has expanded to include more than 155 participants located across the map, from Nyack in the south and Kinderhook in the...

Bidding Adieu to Art Deco’s Democratic Dream

Jul 23, 2025

For sale: a 1,046-foot-tall, 77-story building with a footprint of 1,196,958 square feet, constructed in a steel frame and adorned in gray and white brick with reinforced steel accents, constructed 95 years ago. Located at 42nd and Lexington Avenue in New York City,...

Saya Woolfalk Toys With Future Worlds

Jul 22, 2025

In Caryl Churchill’s short play Imp, which ran at the Public Theater through May 25, an older British woman is soothed by the belief that she has an imp, or a mischievous spirit, trapped in a corked bottle. That belief gives her comfort, as her life in her armchair is...

Visa Denials Create Hurdles for Artist Residencies 

Jul 21, 2025

Every year, two dozen artists from around the world travel to the United States to participate in a month-long summer residency at the nonprofit arts center Art Omi. The highly competitive program is held at the organization’s 120-acre campus in Ghent, New York, where...