Why Take a Selfie in 2025?
I thought my days of writing about selfies were over. My book The Selfie Generation (2017) had done its job: It chronicled the form’s rise…
20 Must-See Art Shows in New York City This Summer
Summer in the city is an Italian ice from a cart, lounging in the park with a book and a tallboy, taking the scenic route…
Free Clinic Teaches Angelenos How to Repair Damaged Art
LOS ANGELES — Art conservation is usually thought of as a specialized practice that happens behind closed doors — tucked away in museum basements or…
Joiri Minaya Upends the Allure of Exoticization
PHILADELPHIA — In a bucolic corner of the Schuylkill River in southwest Philadelphia sits the oldest continuously operating botanical garden in North America. Bartram’s Garden, named…
Does the Art World Need a New Art Fair in Qatar?
Art Basel announced this week that it will host a new fair in the Qatari capital city of Doha, partnering with the state-operated Qatar Sports…
Frieze New York Is Back to Its Old Ways
“Oh, I looove her!” I hear a woman in a striped suit gush about Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens, whose large glass piece “Pinky Sunset…
How Workers in Ancient Egypt and Rome Organized Strikes
At Hyperallergic, we take pride in covering protesting museum workers who take to the streets. But few realize that these workers are taking part in…
What to See in Upstate New York This May
We can interpret the phrase “may day” in two ways: First, as the ancient May Day festival in Europe, which marks the approximate halfway point…
10 Art Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer
Even the figures in Katsukawa Shunchō’s 1789 woodblock print only buy from independent bookstores! (image public domain via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, edit Shari…
Isaac Julien Returns to the Cutting Room Floor of History
SAN FRANCISCO — Time folds unto itself and reflects historical and contemporary moments that have shaped society in Isaac Julien’s I Dream a World, the…