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Several Paris museums including the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée de l'Orangerie, and the Musée National Picasso will be closed on Saturday, October 24 ahead of planned protests calling for educational reform, lower cost of living, and an end to po…

On an average day in December 2022, the Pasadena-based surrealist classicist painter John Griswold got an Instagram DM from musician Phoebe Bridgers.

Following the news that Art Basel Paris will close early on October 23, all outdoor sculptures installed on Winston Churchill Avenue outside the Grand Palais for the fair's accompanying public program will be dismantled as early as tonight, October 22.

A son of the Iowa prairies, John G.

The University at Buffalo Department of Art invites applications for its MFA in Studio Art degree.

Art Basel Paris will prematurely end on Friday, October 23, at 7 pm, “in light of potential demonstrations across Paris this weekend and in the interest of safeguarding our visitors,” event organizers told exhibitors in an email reviewed by Hyperallergic.

Against the backdrop of the out-of-touch wealthfest that is Art Basel Paris, there’s an image from the ongoing student protests in France that is seared into my mind: Marianne, the allegorical figure at the center of the Monument à la République in Paris,…

When students in France took to the streets in 1968 to protest the country's crumbling education system and Gaullist government, they transformed public statues into participants in their cause.

Laura June Kirsch at the launch of her book Romantic Lowlife Fantasies: Emerging Adults In The Age of Hope in 2021 (all images courtesy Laura June Kirsch) Back in February, I got a Google Alert that somebody had made a Wikipedia page about me.

As you enter Andrew Edlin Gallery in Tribeca, Paulina Peavey’s jewel-like visions command your attention.

More than 50 galleries across Düsseldorf and Cologne have signed a letter condemning the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's Düsseldorf faction for allegedly referencing postwar conceptual artist and political activist Joseph Beuys and poet He…

A piece of roof material struck and killed Rogério Renato Mateucci, a Brazilian university rector, while he was on a walking tour of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Friday, October 16.

In Memoriam honors those we recently lost in the art world.

If Chaïm Soutine hangs up carcasses to dry, Ilana Savdie dissects them with surgical precision.

For an exhibition with such a simple title, Costume Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is awfully confusing.

MassArt Graduate programs structure robust assistantship offerings each semester for its graduate student population.

It’s not just a problem.

I generally spend a decent amount of time in Gowanus, but weaving through the neighborhood’s streets and buildings for Open Studios on Saturday really demonstrated how the stretch of water has shed its sardonic designation of “Lavender Lake” and turned in…

Wall labels.

Perhaps because it appeals to universal truths, we can’t seem to shake classical mythology.

Lizzy Plapinger had barely settled into her studio in a sunny corner of Industry City before visitors spilled into the space on Sunday, October 18, to see a handful of her brightly contrasting geometric paintings laid against her walls for Sunset Park Open

As negotiations continue at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), unionized staff have publicized their intent to strike across all four London sites on October 29 and 30, citing continued disputes regarding pay and working conditions.

Tenured faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are decorating the university's surveillance cameras with googly eyes, rhinestones, and glitzy decorations to protest its investment in what they call "Big Brother technology."

The Grand Palais in Paris went into temporary lockdown during installation for Art Basel Paris on Saturday, October 17, amid nearby protests over France’s education system and public services, a fair representative confirmed to Hyperallergic.

Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of self-harm.

The Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art (MFA) program at Maine College of Art & Design (MECA&D) in Portland, Maine, offers an interdisciplinary approach that encourages students to think across traditional academic boundaries, expand their art practice, and…

“Brazil is a country that has never really looked at itself,” artist Rosana Paulino — one of the nation’s representatives at this year’s Venice Biennale — tells curator and researcher Daniela Mayer in an interview today.

So much has been said about John Berger over the past five decades that it almost feels trite to pile on.

Hundreds protested at Colombia’s national museum in Bogotá this weekend, days after the country’s far-right government ordered the removal of objects addressing political violence, women’s rights, and LGBTQ+ history — including a rainbow Pride Flag — in a…

Though I spent six hours sauntering through the neighborhood for the 30th iteration of Gowanus Open Studios (GOS) on Saturday afternoon, I barely covered a tenth of the over 100 participating sites.

Melissa Brown has worn cat-eye makeup every day since she was a teenager.

David Reed: Terrible Idea at Rodder is one of the few instances where the artist has shown his paintings and drawings together, in this case, those dated between 2013 and this year.

Every fall, the East Village gets all furry-scurry as hundreds of dogs and their doting families race to the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade.

Dozens of students from the École du Louvre, a higher education arts institution in the Louvre Palace in Paris, began blocking the main entrance of the Louvre Museum today, October 19, as nationwide protests over the overcrowded and underresourced conditi…

On Monday, October 5, the day after a contentious first round sent Brazil’s presidential election to a runoff, Rosana Paulino sat in the New School’s Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries beside a wall hung with her natural-pigment drawings of small figures…

I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies (2026) poster (all images courtesy Film at Lincoln Center) Mani Haghighi’s documentary, I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies (2026), opens w…

What happens when our understanding of Puerto Ricanness is no longer organized around territory?

For Smiles Meyer, art is an act of divine transformation — both creatively and bodily.

In Cannupa Hanska Luger’s latest show at Garth Greenan Gallery, an abstracted bison crafted of ironstone clay and sumi ink sits on a burned and blackened 19th-century American dining table; elsewhere, a stack of the animal’s skulls rests on a surface with…

It’s a sunny October afternoon in Manhattan and the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are bustling with visitors.

Two years ago, I encountered the infamous 1892 image of two men with a hill of buffalo skulls at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

A small town in South Carolina may not be the first place you think of when it comes to the Southʼs art scene, but each spring Lake City proves otherwise.

Midtown got a makeover on Wednesday, and thank the lord it did!

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.

Students in France are approaching their third week of protests over a host of ills in the country's education system, spanning dilapidated infrastructure, teacher shortages, underfunding, and overburdened schedules.

Selena Surreal offers a piercing performance.

The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMΣT) won this year's European Museum Academy Art Museum Award, edging out the Rijksmuseum and FENIX Museum of Migration in the Netherlands, Hastings Contemporary in the United Kingdom, Museum Gugging in Aus…

Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland has proposed a bill calling on the Smithsonian to preserve and permanently exhibit artifacts related to the Trump administration's escalating aggression against the institution's museums and research cent…

A hushed medley of ambient soundscapes greets the viewer as they enter Frank Gillette’s Spectra Obscura at Microscope Gallery.

The advent of cinema in the late 19th century allowed artists and scientists to record motion for the first time.