This week: a trip to “Yokofest,” outsmarting surveillance pricing, the Haida Nation reclaims its land, dachshund side-eye paintings, and did Microsoft invent a new type of matter?

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21.02.2025

What to Watch at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight Festival

From Cauleen Smith’s trilogy on volcanos to Philippe Parreno’s intimate exploration of Goya, here’s what to watch.

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21.02.2025

A View From the Easel

“I'm finding that the plants have started taking over my life and creativity.”

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21.02.2025

Street Stories – Graffiti and the Legacy of Martin Wong

Join Hrag Vartanian, artist Lee Quiñones, PPOW Gallery Co-Founder Wendy Olsoff, and MCNY Curator Sean Corcoran for a discussion on the evolution of graffiti as an art form and the lasting influence of visionary artist and collector Martin Wong.

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21.02.2025

The Bell Reimagines Julien Creuzet’s French Pavilion From the Venice Biennale

The artist’s debut solo exhibition in the United States, “Attila cataract (…),” marks the first time the French Pavilion has traveled to the country. On view at Brown University.

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21.02.2025

Hyperallergic Spring 2025 New York Art Guide

Your guide to this season’s must-see museum exhibitions and art events in and around New York City.

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21.02.2025

Donald Trump Brings Back “Degenerate Art”

The president’s obsession with cultural control is evidence of a continued fascist creep, and not just another joke exercise in narcissism.

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21.02.2025

Suggestive Portraits of Queer Priests and Nuns Spark Fury in Mexico

Fabián Cháirez’s latest exhibition in Mexico City has drawn the ire of religious and right-wing groups who accuse the artist of "Christianophobia.”

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21.02.2025

LA’s Felix Art Fair Meets Grief With Absurdity

The levity of this year’s edition feels purposeful: Not only will the show not be marred by tragedy, but it will also remind attendees of art's potential to express joy.

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20.02.2025

Master Printmaker Krishna Reddy Never Stopped Learning

The Indian-American printmaker’s experimental, collaborative spirit yielded a new method for multicolored intaglio printing and inspired a generation of artists.

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20.02.2025

Thousands Call on Christie’s to Nix AI Art Auction

An open letter alleges that many of the artworks in the auction were “created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license.”

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20.02.2025

The Artist Bending Modernism Toward Mysticism

Marina Perez Simão systematizes nature’s motifs and distills them into interlocking volumes and color bands in paintings as cerebral as they are sensuous.

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20.02.2025

Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities

Discover the artistry and intrigue of fashion’s past and present in this immersive exhibition at The Museum at FIT.

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20.02.2025

Australia’s Gold Lion Winners “Appalled” by Decision to Drop Khaled Sabsabi

Artist Archie Moore and curator Ellie Buttrose called for reinstating the artist and curator originally selected for the 2026 pavilion.

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20.02.2025

Chinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei Denied Entry to Switzerland

“I did not expect to encounter such a surprising incident,” Ai told Hyperallergic.

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20.02.2025

Why Do All My Hinge Options Look Like Guys From Old Paintings?

As it turns out, men have been posing with fish for hundreds of years.

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20.02.2025

Roxanne Jackson’s Fantasia Under the Sea

Maybe Jackson's ceramic "monsters" are just creatures who look like they shouldn’t belong — and in her world-building Jackson has made a place where they do.

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20.02.2025

Amy Sherald’s Sublime Portraits of Black Americans Head to NYC

Nearly 50 paintings by the artist will go on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art starting April 9.

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20.02.2025

Netherlands to Repatriate 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

It’s been described as the single largest return to date of the famous Benin antiquities looted by the British military.

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20.02.2025

Fairs and Events Not to Miss During LA Art Week

From the Anti-Frieze performance festival to a benefit exhibition for artists impacted by fires, the city’s creative communities return with resilience.

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20.02.2025

Required Reading

This week: snarky dance criticism, a Super Bowl performer’s protest, Barbara Kingsolver builds a rehab center, Chappell Roan starts a trend, and did Rupi Kaur’s poem age well?

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20.02.2025

Finding Flaco Lovingly Details Owl’s Year of Freedom

A new book features over 200 photos of the beloved owl who escaped from his enclosure in Manhattan’s Central Park Zoo.

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20.02.2025

Australia's Decision to Drop Its Venice Biennale Artist Ignites Uproar

Several senior arts officials have resigned in solidarity with Lebanese-Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi.

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20.02.2025

Cosmo Whyte’s Whispering Portals

By blurring the line between individual and collective memory, the works demonstrate the Panafrican ideal that our experiences are part of a shared narrative.

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20.02.2025

Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Labyrinths of Desire

Working with, alongside, and against conventions of portraiture photography, the artist manipulates the gaps between image and object.

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20.02.2025

Stephanie H. Shih’s Time Capsules of the Heart

She rescues objects from the garbage bin of mass-produced memory and reimagines them as art.

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20.02.2025

The Reluctant Genius of Rudy Burckhardt

The complexity of Burckhardt's work is easy to overlook, because he calls attention to neither his mastery nor his labor.

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20.02.2025

The Nefarious Power of the Unseen

Invisibility: Powers & Perils raises exciting questions around racial, technological, and ecological invisibility, and leaves us asking for more.

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20.02.2025

8 Art Books on Love to Read This Valentine’s Day

Letter-writing, art historical affairs, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, and more artsy titles on love in all its forms.

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19.02.2025

Pioneering Conceptual Artist Mel Bochner Dies at 84

Through iconic works like his “Blah! Blah! Blah!” paintings, Bochner probed visual art's relationship with language as a medium rather than a supplemental tool.

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19.02.2025

Brent Sikkema’s Husband Charged With Hiring His Killer

The New York dealer was found dead by stabbing over a year ago.

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19.02.2025

The Opulent Beadwork of Black Masker Demond Melancon

The Louisiana-based artist, known for his hand-beaded portraits and Mardi Gras Indian suits, is the recipient of this year’s 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art.

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19.02.2025

The Iconoclastic Vision of Barkley L. Hendricks

The late artist’s work has always bristled against the boundaries of categorization, and it does so particularly here, in an exhibition centered around Afrofuturism.

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19.02.2025

Tabitha Arnold’s Tapestries Eulogize the Working Class

Her work integrates contemporary labor strikes into the visual language of social realism, asserting that these efforts are not anomalies but regularities.

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19.02.2025

Qatar to Build National Pavilion in the Venice Biennale’s Giardini

The Gulf country announced the construction of a permanent national pavilion in the historic garden, the third country in 50 years to do so.

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19.02.2025

Is Female Anatomy Too "Controversial" for the American Quilter's Society?

The organization is also accused of trying to remove an abstract quilt referencing abortion access from a traveling exhibition, according to the artists.

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19.02.2025

The Tumultuous Journey of Faith Ringgold’s Rikers Mural

Catherine Gund’s Paint Me a Road Out of Here uses the artwork to tell truths about the US carceral system.

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19.02.2025

Jeffrey Gibson’s Venice Biennale Show Is Heading to LA

Opening at the Broad in May, the exhibition will include dozens of works featuring the artist’s telltale colorful geometric patterning and stylized text.

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19.02.2025

The Singular Wit of One of the New Yorker’s First Women Cartoonists

Barbara Shermund’s single-panel cartoons, drawn with a seemingly off-the-cuff fluidity of line and expression, came to define the magazine’s sense of humor.

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19.02.2025

The Drag Queen Artist Who Helped Make the East Village Interesting

From a large Wigstock banner to more intimate self-portraits, Tabboo!’s art sparkles anew in two contemporaneous exhibitions.

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Required Reading

What to Watch at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight Festival

A View From the Easel

Street Stories – Graffiti and the Legacy of Martin Wong

The Bell Reimagines Julien Creuzet’s French Pavilion From the Venice Biennale

Hyperallergic Spring 2025 New York Art Guide

Donald Trump Brings Back “Degenerate Art”

Suggestive Portraits of Queer Priests and Nuns Spark Fury in Mexico

LA’s Felix Art Fair Meets Grief With Absurdity

Master Printmaker Krishna Reddy Never Stopped Learning

Thousands Call on Christie’s to Nix AI Art Auction

The Artist Bending Modernism Toward Mysticism

Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities

Australia’s Gold Lion Winners “Appalled” by Decision to Drop Khaled Sabsabi

Chinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei Denied Entry to Switzerland

Why Do All My Hinge Options Look Like Guys From Old Paintings?

Roxanne Jackson’s Fantasia Under the Sea

Amy Sherald’s Sublime Portraits of Black Americans Head to NYC

Netherlands to Repatriate 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

Fairs and Events Not to Miss During LA Art Week

Required Reading

Finding Flaco Lovingly Details Owl’s Year of Freedom

Australia's Decision to Drop Its Venice Biennale Artist Ignites Uproar

Cosmo Whyte’s Whispering Portals

Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Labyrinths of Desire

Stephanie H. Shih’s Time Capsules of the Heart

The Reluctant Genius of Rudy Burckhardt

The Nefarious Power of the Unseen

8 Art Books on Love to Read This Valentine’s Day

Pioneering Conceptual Artist Mel Bochner Dies at 84

Brent Sikkema’s Husband Charged With Hiring His Killer

The Opulent Beadwork of Black Masker Demond Melancon

The Iconoclastic Vision of Barkley L. Hendricks

Tabitha Arnold’s Tapestries Eulogize the Working Class

Qatar to Build National Pavilion in the Venice Biennale’s Giardini

Is Female Anatomy Too "Controversial" for the American Quilter's Society?

The Tumultuous Journey of Faith Ringgold’s Rikers Mural

Jeffrey Gibson’s Venice Biennale Show Is Heading to LA

The Singular Wit of One of the New Yorker’s First Women Cartoonists

The Drag Queen Artist Who Helped Make the East Village Interesting

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