It’s Time to Rethink the 50/50 Split With Art Galleries

Aug 15, 2025

Why should the creator of the artwork only get 50%? (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) August is when the capitalist parts of the art world go to sleep. This summer’s pause by the Art Dealers Association of America’s Art Show (ADAA) makes that quiet feel even...

We Can’t Afford to Lose the Institute of American Indian Arts

Aug 13, 2025

As a rebellious youngster, I didn’t want to be the third generation of my family to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I started college at the University of New Mexico, trying to find my own identity, my own community, my own...

A Hiroshima Survivor’s Message for Jerry Saltz

Aug 12, 2025

Howard Kakita survived the American atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. (all photos courtesy Howard Kakita) Editor’s Note: This article contains graphic descriptions of the effects of the atomic bomb. I was angered and dismayed by Jerry Saltz’s August 6...

Haunted by the Gray 

Aug 6, 2025

Amy Sherald, “As American as Apple Pie” (2020) in Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum of American Art (photo Hyperallergic) Once, when I was involved in a romance that was slowly coming to a close, I described to my then-partner that I felt...

I Lost My Job at the Whitney, but the Art Community Lost Much More 

Aug 5, 2025

On June 2, the director of the Whitney Museum, Scott Rothkopf, sent an email announcing his “suspension” of the 50-year-old Independent Study Program (ISP) to a select number of its alumni. Citing “a gap in leadership,” he officially canceled admissions for the...

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...

Why Does Elon Musk Have Such a Straight View of Antiquity?

Jul 22, 2025

A day after Independence Day in the United States, the world’s richest man announced on X that he would form a new political party called the America Party. A follow-up from Elon Musk revealed that he intended to break up the current “uniparty” system through the use...

My Dialogues With a Political Prisoner

Jul 17, 2025

Carlos Martiel, “Untitled” (2025), acrylic on cardboard with Cuban cigarette packet papers, from the installation Aponte’s Lost Podcast in Coco Fusco’s exhibition I Learned to Swim on Dry Land at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art...

Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?

Jul 16, 2025

Jean-François Millet, “Man with a Hoe” (1860–1862) (courtesy the Getty Center) Are there more great artists or great art forgers? Statistics are hard to come by, but when an art forgery is uncovered, the likelihood is that one man or, more rarely, a woman,...