Anish Kapoor Greenpeace Collab Sends Generic Environmental Message 

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...

For $9.5M, Rothko’s Former Home and Studio Could Be Yours

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...

Visitors Can’t Keep Their Hands Off This Eggplant Artwork

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...

Smithsonian’s New Trump Impeachment Label Is Shorter and Safer

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...

Court Sides With Peter Doig in Bizarre Authorship Lawsuit

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...

Thai Art Center Censors Exhibition After “Pressure” From China

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...

As ADAA’s Art Show Changes Course, a Nonprofit Is Left in Limbo

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...

Kasmin and Clearing Galleries Announce Closures

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,...