After slashing hundreds of grants for cultural institutions, the agency is opening applications for the president’s widely questioned “National Garden of American Heroes.”

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25.04.2025

Galleries That Play the “Responsibility” Game

This commercial undertaking works hard to present itself with an institutional veneer, making claims that it “fosters a sense of shared responsibility” in the art world.

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25.04.2025

Required Reading

This week: colonial photography through a Diné lens, Kikkoman soy sauce bottle design, Canadian nationalism on the rise, Australian twins become a meme, and much more.

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25.04.2025

Trump’s Top Envoy Says Palais de l’Élysée Looks Just Like Mar-a-Lago

Steve Witkoff is the laughingstock of the internet for drawing parallels between Trump’s Florida beach club and the ornate 18th-century French palace.

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24.04.2025

NYC Subway Mural Evokes Hilma af Klint's Mysticism

An abstract mural by feminist collective Hilma's Ghost draws from tarot archetypes and hero myths to honor the journeys commuters embark on every day.

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24.04.2025

The Contested History of American Labor

An exhibition shows that our beleaguered present is not apocalyptically singular but the continuation of one long, long fight.

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24.04.2025

26-Foot Nick Cave Sculpture Heads to Michigan Sculpture Park

The artist’s bronze "Amalgam (Origin)" will join works by the likes of Auguste Rodin and Louise Bourgeois at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.

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24.04.2025

CONTACT Photography Festival Activates Toronto With Citywide Lens-Based Art

Through exhibitions and public art, the 2025 festival addresses the importance of photography in times of crisis and upheaval.

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24.04.2025

Texas Schools Ban Lesson Over Exposed Nipple on Virginia Flag

“Nudity on a state flag is an absurd justification to censor a history lesson,” ACLU Staff Attorney Chloe Kempf told Hyperallergic.

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24.04.2025

What if Peacemakers Shaped the Future?

“Poetics of Power,” grounded in feminist critique, imagines a world free from militarized, male-dominated spheres of power and opposed to all forms of exploitation.

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24.04.2025

The Everyday Lives of Women’s Clothing

“Real Clothes, Real Lives” shows that women have adapted their attire to accommodate their daily activities with resourcefulness and panache.

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24.04.2025

The Danish Women Who Made Modernism Radical

A new book invites us into the tight-knit circle of women modernists in late-19th-century Denmark through quietly subversive gestures; you’ll never look at a glove the same way again.

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23.04.2025

Linder’s Monstrous Pop Cultural Assemblages

The artist’s surgical photomontages offer insight into the gendered desire and commercialism at the heart of patriarchal capitalism.

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23.04.2025

Lady Pink, the Queen of New York City Graffiti

From the rainforest in Ecuador to the trainyards of the MTA and galleries across continents, this street writing legend’s story is a testament to the power of strong women in art.

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23.04.2025

What the 2025 Art Basel & UBS Report Means for Dealers — Artlogic Breaks It Down

Real-world takeaways to help galleries navigate rising costs, shifting sales, and digital opportunities.

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23.04.2025

Otis College MFA Students Remake Los Angeles

Graduates display the breadth of LA’s institutional art ecosystem today, offering a range of approaches to making art this side of the Mississippi.

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23.04.2025

Memes Blame JD Vance for Pope Francis’s Passing

The disgraced VP has been catapulted into the meme-o-sphere yet again due to the suspicious proximity of his visit to the Vatican and the Pope's death.

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23.04.2025

Woman Accuses Kehinde Wiley of Sexual Assault in New Lawsuit

The complaint comes in the wake of at least four other public accusations against the artist, all of which he has vehemently denied.

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23.04.2025

Pope Francis’s Aesthetics of Humility

He chose a simple white cassock over velvet robes, disseminated photos of him kneeling before inmates and refugees, and believed in art as an intrinsic human right.

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23.04.2025

Historic Chicano Mural Whitewashed in Culver City

Created in 1979 by the East Los Streetscapers, the painting on the wall of a local DMV was a rare example of Latine representation in images of space and STEM.

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23.04.2025

Climate Protesters Target NYC’s Iconic “Charging Bull” in Earth Day Protest

The action featured an excremental installation to call out Wall Street’s “bullshit.”

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22.04.2025

Myrlande Constant Immerses Us in Opulence

Standing before Constant’s sumptuous embroideries, shimmering with beads and sequins, is awe-inspiring and joyfully disorienting.

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22.04.2025

I Attended My First “Plant Funeral” in New York City

With my plastic container of dirt in hand, I entered the Lower East Side arts space Chinatown Soup and joined a crowd teeming with shriveled leaves, moldy roots, and wilted stems.

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22.04.2025

Pope Francis’s Most Timeless Insights on Art and Artists

Among his many legacies, the late pontiff left behind a trove of musings on contemporary art, the role of museums, and even the pitfalls of the art market.

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22.04.2025

Patty Chang Looks Into the Abyss

The artist meditates on motherhood, and more broadly, on empathy, connection, and violence across space, species, and time.

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22.04.2025

Five New York City Art Shows We Love This Week

Among our favorite shows at the moment are ones that feature strong, talented women, like Patty Chang, Myrlande Constant, and Amy Sherald.

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22.04.2025

Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: April 2025

The other Dalí, a Cubist chessboard, polaroids of queer 1970s Houston, and more.

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22.04.2025

DOGE Meeting With National Gallery of Art Sets Off Alarm Bells

The Elon Musk-led agency met with museum leadership to discuss the organization’s “legal status” as the Trump administration continues its attacks on federal arts funding.

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22.04.2025

NADA New York 2025 Features 120 International Galleries

The New Art Dealers Alliance’s signature fair presents a diverse and expanded selection of contemporary art from around the world. On view May 7–11.

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22.04.2025

The Most Joyful Hats of NYC’s Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival

From artwork tributes to miniature landmarks, this year’s event brought together the quirky, camp, and fantastical in what one participant called “a love-fest.”

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22.04.2025

The Neoliberal Roots of Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade

The conservative quest for art that reflects “traditional American values” dates back to the early 1980s.

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21.04.2025

Amid Attacks on Trans Rights, Museum Staff Push for All-Gender Restrooms

From a toilet "intervention" to signage that upends the traditional gendered silhouette, cultural workers share the labor that goes into developing inclusive facilities.

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21.04.2025

Is the Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino Finally Moving Forward?

Amid the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, a bipartisan coalition is advocating for a bill that would guarantee the institution a spot on the National Mall.

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21.04.2025

Clara Peeters’s Still Lifes Are Even Better Than the Real Thing

In her paintings, the 17th-century Dutch painter captured a pure, crystalline moment of time with unnerving verisimilitude.

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21.04.2025

Move Over, Jeff Koons, There's a New Balloon Sculpture in Town

CJ Hendry’s massive inflatable installation, “Keff Joons,” transforms a seemingly unassuming Brooklyn warehouse into an air-filled rainbow playground.

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Trump’s Top Envoy Says Palais de l’Élysée Looks Just Like Mar-a-Lago

NYC Subway Mural Evokes Hilma af Klint's Mysticism

The Contested History of American Labor

26-Foot Nick Cave Sculpture Heads to Michigan Sculpture Park

CONTACT Photography Festival Activates Toronto With Citywide Lens-Based Art

Texas Schools Ban Lesson Over Exposed Nipple on Virginia Flag

What if Peacemakers Shaped the Future?

The Everyday Lives of Women’s Clothing

The Danish Women Who Made Modernism Radical

Linder’s Monstrous Pop Cultural Assemblages

Lady Pink, the Queen of New York City Graffiti

What the 2025 Art Basel & UBS Report Means for Dealers — Artlogic Breaks It Down

Otis College MFA Students Remake Los Angeles

Memes Blame JD Vance for Pope Francis’s Passing

Woman Accuses Kehinde Wiley of Sexual Assault in New Lawsuit

Pope Francis’s Aesthetics of Humility

Historic Chicano Mural Whitewashed in Culver City

Climate Protesters Target NYC’s Iconic “Charging Bull” in Earth Day Protest

Myrlande Constant Immerses Us in Opulence

I Attended My First “Plant Funeral” in New York City

Pope Francis’s Most Timeless Insights on Art and Artists

Patty Chang Looks Into the Abyss

Five New York City Art Shows We Love This Week

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DOGE Meeting With National Gallery of Art Sets Off Alarm Bells

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The Most Joyful Hats of NYC’s Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival

The Neoliberal Roots of Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade

Amid Attacks on Trans Rights, Museum Staff Push for All-Gender Restrooms

Is the Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino Finally Moving Forward?

Clara Peeters’s Still Lifes Are Even Better Than the Real Thing

Move Over, Jeff Koons, There's a New Balloon Sculpture in Town

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