Aug 15, 2025
A large protest artwork by Anish Kapoor was hoisted onto a North Sea oil platform today, revealing a 40-by-26-foot (12-by-8-meter) canvas work entitled “BUTCHERED.” Protesters connected to Greenpeace fittingly proceeded to cover with 1,000 liters of a...
Aug 15, 2025
As the summer months progress, the walls along East 125 Street and its surrounding blocks continue to evolve. The exuberant mural featured above was painted by the legendary Japanese NYC-based artist Shiro One. Several more images of murals — several by artists...
Aug 14, 2025
The Trump administration will begin a “comprehensive internal review” of the Smithsonian Institution, including an examination of exhibitions, curatorial processes, educational materials, and programming related to the 250th anniversary of the United...
Aug 13, 2025
Mark Rothko’s former apartment and studio in Manhattan’s Lenox Hill, where he created the paintings for his renowned Rothko Chapel in Texas, is back on the market. Sotheby’s Realty is asking $9.5 million for the red-brick converted carriage house at 157 East...
Aug 13, 2025
The Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum in Evanston, Illinois, has temporarily closed its doors to the public. The news of the closure comes after the museum terminated its contract with an Indigenous artist over his “unauthorized” inclusion of pro-Palestine visuals...
Aug 12, 2025
Museum visitors in Singapore have reportedly had difficulty keeping their hands off a wall installation consisting of dozens of mounted eggplants. The artwork, “Still Life” (1992/2025) by Suzann Victor, is part of the ongoing exhibition Singapore Stories: Pathways and...
Aug 12, 2025
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, installed a new label describing President Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings in its permanent exhibition on United States presidents after widespread backlash. The...
Aug 11, 2025
A federal judge in Illinois sided with Scottish artist Peter Doig last month in an outlandish decades-long legal dispute over a desert landscape the painter denies creating. On July 29, the court upheld an earlier ruling that a Chicago art dealer, the disputed...
Aug 9, 2025
A Bangkok exhibition exploring state violence and resistance, which included artists from Tibet and Hong Kong, was altered under pressure by officials at the Chinese Embassy in Thailand. In an email sent to the artists reviewed by Hyperallergic, the curators of the...
Aug 9, 2025
For more than three decades, the Art Dealers Association of America’s (ADAA) annual Art Show in New York City served as the biggest source of unrestricted revenue for the Henry Street Settlement, the Lower Manhattan social services nonprofit. Last month, this vital...
Aug 9, 2025
A federal judge halted further construction on the notoriously dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center yesterday, August 7, in response to a lawsuit citing the prison’s risks to environmental diversity and Native American heritage. In addition to threatening...
Aug 8, 2025
The wave of gallery closures that has roiled the art world in recent months continues this week with the back-to-back announcements of the shuttering of Kasmin and Clearing galleries. Manhattan’s Kasmin Gallery, which represents artists including Joel Shapiro,...