Sub-versive DC Protester Becomes Memeorable

Top: Mural at Dupont Circle North Metro Station in Washington, DC, pays homage to the man who threw a subway at an ICE agent (photo courtesy Ian Livinsgton); bottom: Stills from an FBI video of Sean Charles Dunn flinging the sub (via X, all screenshots Hyperallergic)...

Silky Headphone Covers Give You Verm-ears

No, they’re not petite satin pillows for your ears. They’re overpriced headphone covers, à la Vermeer. Silky blue headphone slips inspired by the elusive Dutch master’s 1665 “Girl With a Pearl Earring” are just one of many electronic accessories that have come...

LA Museum Condemns US Border Patrol Presence on Its Grounds 

A US Border Patrol agent stands in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on August 14, 2025. (photo courtesy Little Tokyo Rapid Response Network via JANM) Dozens of masked federal agents descended on the Japanese American National...

School of Visual Arts Quietly Lays Off Staff

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan has quietly reduced staff, citing “financial challenges” that have also allegedly resulted in cancelled courses and budget shortfalls.  The recently organized SVA faculty union told Hyperallergic that they believe...

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...