A Photographer Brings New York City’s Water System to the Surface

New York City is defined in many ways by its iconic infrastructure, from our parks to the soaring towers of the Brooklyn and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridges, and even the controversial roadways of Robert Moses, which displaced many communities of color, leaving a legacy we...

Kour Pour Reclaims the Geometry of Abstraction

Kour Pour, “Twice Removed” (2025), acrylic, block ink, and esphand on shaped canvases (all images courtesy Kour Pour Studio, unless otherwise noted) LOS ANGELES — For artist Kour Pour, challenging the Euro-American art historical canon has been a...

How Do You Remember a Home Reduced to Rubble?

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...

Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation 

According to a United Nations report released in June, Israel has destroyed more than half of all religious and cultural sites in Gaza. The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said of the findings that attacks on cultural sites, including...

A Glimpse Inside the Dizzying Psyche of Daniel Johnston

A drawing by Daniel Johnston (image courtesy Daniel Johnston Trust, all others Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic) I was in my second year of college when I first heard about the alternative folk artist Daniel Johnston. It was the fall of 2017, two years before his death, and...

BlackStar Festival Returns With 92 Films From Around the World 

Still from Louis Massiah and Monica Henriquez’s TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025), which will kick off this year’s BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia (all images courtesy BlackStar Film Festival) A prolific storyteller,...

A Hollywood Hills Gallery-Home Is Reborn as an Artist’s Residency 

LOS ANGELES — In 1933, German-Jewish artist, art collector, and art dealer Galka Scheyer commissioned architect Richard Neutra to build her a house in the Hollywood Hills. Scheyer had moved to the United States in 1924 with the goal of promoting European modern art,...

Chance Encounters at Upstate Art Weekend

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

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,...

How “Coldplaygate” Became the Meme of the Summer 

Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” reimagined for the moment (via @memequeen and @esixus on Instagram, all screenshots Hyperallgic) As we all vie for a distraction from the world’s woes, an alleged affair exposed via the Jumbotron at a Coldplay...

Black-Owned Film Shop Photodom Gets a New Home in Bushwick 

On a sunny July morning, a lively crowd gathered in Bushwick to celebrate the grand “re-opening” of Photodom’s new storefront. Surrounded by family, friends, and loyal customers capturing the moment on everything from smartphones to vintage film cameras to Polaroids —...

Stripper Collective’s Life Drawing Merges Sex Work and Art

Sketch from the East London Stripper Collective’s life drawing session in May by artist Jean-David Solon (image courtesy the artist) LONDON and BRIGHTON, England — Almost two decades ago, Stacey Clare began stripping to make ends meet. An environmental arts...