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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY — It feels like a great deal of professional respect and admiration went into the making of Betty Parsons: An Expanded World at the Hessel Museum of Art.

At our Halloween party last year, my undergrad art history thesis advisor showed up as Malevich’s “Black Square,” and a writer I regularly work with handed out purple squares for his “Relational Aesthetics” (???)

A fatal shooting in the Las Vegas Arts District claimed the life of 15-year-old Carth Onasi Jacobs-Rodgers during the First Friday arts festival on Tuesday, October 6.

Jens Galschiøt's “The Orange Plague” (2025), displayed as the artist hands out 3D-printed miniatures of the sculpture as souvenirs (all photos courtesy the artist) While President Donald Trump prioritizes adding his signature yellow-gold touch to historic…

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.

Imagine you’re a hotshot young New York gallerist whose rapidly rising artist has been invited to show in a group exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

This October, art shows in the city home in on the everyday and its ability to reveal greater truths about existence, perception, and history.

Ridikkuluz, “Ya Kalb (tribute to Al-Zaidi)” (2026) (all photos Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic) Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault and harassment.

When the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) reopens this November, visitors will see an innovative, object-centered approach to presenting the museum’s collection and experience the result of a new approach to museum…

Alyce Mahon’s new book Dorothea Tanning: A Surrealist World offers a panoramic, well-researched view of the artist’s life and work.

Millennium Film Workshop is a rare space in New York City that champions self-expression and experimentation in filmmaking.

If leaders of New York’s Museum of Modern Art thought that calls to remove board member Leon Black, an Epstein associate, would eventually die down, a group of two dozen protesters today proved them very much mistaken.

A few days ago, I was sifting through my late grandmother’s meticulous archive of notes, reading lists, and ephemera from her four decades as a public school librarian in Texas.

Over two dozen people assembled down the street from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) today, October 6, calling for the removal of disgraced billionaire Leon Black from the museum board over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In 1979, Barbadian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite declared, “The hurricane does not roar in pentameter.”

I’m ashamed to admit that it took a death in the building for me to get to know the names and faces of my neighbors after four-ish years in the same place.

It's that time of year!

In the 1960s, Robert Underwood left his small Kentucky town as a teenager and became Sun Ra’s protégé.

After a five-year pause, the New Museum in Manhattan will open its sixth triennial for emerging artists in its newly expanded building on February 4, 2027.

La Feria, the single-day media and print fair run by The Latinx Project at New York University (NYU), returned for its third edition on Saturday, October 3, just as the northeastern coast’s humidity retreated.

Shortly after closing the books on its dedicated 20th-century edition late last month, Independent Art Fair revealed that it was acquired by Informa, a London publishing, research, business intelligence, and exhibitions conglomerate.

This fall, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA) and Bates College Museum of Art present two Maine exhibitions exploring artist Carl Sprinchorn.

"The books we publish at the MIT Press examine how art, architecture, and design impact our lives and influence our perception of the world.

It’s a sad fact of life that some people who lead prestigious art organizations for many years end up growing aloof, calculated, and a tad too close to money and power.

I was married to an artist once.

When Patti Smith inaugurated the Holy See Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in May, the artist used her sound installation like a spiritual guide — one that asked audiences to listen, contemplate, and remember that their own intellect (not an artificially g…

My grandfather was born near Black River, the Jamaican port town where the infamous ship the Zong docked in 1781 after the massacre of 133 enslaved Africans who were thrown overboard and killed for an insurance claim.

After 26 years at the helm of Yaddo, the storied artist retreat currently celebrating its 100th anniversary, Elaina Richardson is moving on.

Welcome to the 357th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.

The London-based artist Rana Begum’s show at Lehmann Maupin — her first solo show in New York — is a perceptual mindfuck, in the best possible way.

Strike?

Applications are open for the MFA in Visual Art program at Washington University in St.

It’s a lovely day for upholding labor rights.

I wake up with the sparrows at 6am, shower and get dressed at maximum speed, check a few emails, gulp a quick espresso, and by 7:15am, I’m ready to drive my son René to kindergarten.

Translation never arrives in Maia Ruth Lee’s solo exhibition at Tina Kim Gallery, Double Vision.

Individual artists can now receive up to $10,000 in city-funded grants, double the amount of previous appropriations, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) announced today, October 2.

After months of collective bargaining and looming strikes, unionized staff at the Brooklyn Museum and the Solomon R.

LOS ANGELES — For over four decades, the Tom of Finland Foundation has been a vital hub for queer artists.

Figures jostle the surface of every Mala Iqbal canvas with the energy of a great metropolis.

The British Museum will provide audio tour options for its Bayeux Tapestry exhibition after a blind patron pursued legal action against the London institution last week, according to the BBC.

Francis Lee Rogers holds up one of her paintings (photo via Facebook) Francis Lee Rogers, a 63-year-old artist whose neighbors and subjects were the birds of Central Park, died on Sunday, September 27.

In November 2022, Brian Johnson (Monacan Indian Nation) gave a lecture called “Posters That Sing: Notes on Indigenous Poster Design” at Poster House in New York City.

Thanks to everyone who came to our member event yesterday at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn.

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

Amid the current swell of vilification, exploitation, and brutalization directed at immigrants of all demographics residing in the United States, a public art initiative in New Jersey carves out space to celebrate the cultural diversity and contributions…

The art and activism initiative Fall of Freedom is anchoring its second year with hundreds of events across the United States this weekend, October 2 through October 4.

On the concourse level of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is a small exhibition, easily missed if you are focused on the elevator that takes you down to begin this site’s profound historical journey.

Inheritance makes me think of money.