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Alan Michelson Talks Dinosaurs, Murderous US Presidents, and Platinum-Gilded Native “Knowledge Keepers”

As a child, Alan Michelson often rode the T past sculptor Cyrus Edward Dallin’s “Appeal to the Great Spirit” (1908) outside the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). He was

The French Lesbian Curator & Spy Who Saved Art from the Nazis

When World War II broke out, museums across France took their most precious artworks off the walls and hid them away for safekeeping from bombing. But no one suspected th

Ancient Art, Wages, and Strikes: A 3000-Year-Old History of Labor

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 a practice that’s as

Lady Pink, the Queen of New York City Graffiti

In 1971, a seven-year-old Sandra Fabara moved with her family from a city nestled in an Ecuadorian rainforest to the dense brick landscape of Brooklyn. By the time she wa

Street Stories: Graffiti and the Legacy of Martin Wong

The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) holds what is arguably the most important collection of early graffiti art and ephemera, amassed by Martin Wong, a queer Chinese

Talking a Big Game: The Art of Sports and the Sport of Art

We’ve been taught by high school movies and pop culture at large that art and sports are diametrical opposites. You know the trope: The sporty jocks and the nerdy theater

Nick Cave Is Serving You Everything

One of seven brothers, Nick Cave grew up watching his family create magic out of scraps. His aunts would cut paper bags into patterns, and in just one day, make an entire

The Boys in the (Klan) Hood: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston’s Legacy

Philip Guston, an Ashkenazi Jew, and Trenton Doyle Hancock, a Black artist with a strict Southern Christian upbringing, came from vastly different backgrounds. But a curr

Joyce Kozloff’s Patterns of Protest

In 1973, gallerist Tibor de Nagy gave Joyce Kozloff a call. His voice quivered as he told her that Clement Greenberg had just left the back room after giving a searing re

Karen Wilkin: Critiquing the New Masters

In the late 1950s, a Manhattan-born college student was running from an art history course at Barnard to a George Balanchine ballet practice at the storied School of Amer

Guantánamo Bay and the Art of Resistance

This August, journalist Moustafa Bayoumi broke the story that the first photo of a detainee in a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) black site had been declassified. It sh

Lucy Lippard’s Life on the Frontlines of Art

When Lucy Lippard left New York City for the tiny village of Galisteo, New Mexico, some were shocked: How could this giant of 20th-century art criticism, this leader in t

Robber Barons, Marcel Duchamp, and Big Museums’ Dirty Little Secrets

In 1915, Marcel Duchamp bought a snow shovel at a hardware store in New York City. He inscribed his signature and the date on its wooden handle. On the evening this episo

Silver Skeleton Deities and Political Mind Games: What’s Happening at the Venice Biennale?

The sports world may be on the edge of their seats as we draw close to the 2024 Olympics in Paris. But the “Olympics of the art world” is already well underway in Italy:

Shelley Niro's 500 Year Itch

Shelley Niro (Kanien’kehaka) grew up watching her father craft faux tomahawks to sell to tourists who flocked to her birthplace, Niagara Falls. In this episode of the Hyp

Lee Quiñones: Graffiti and the Gallery

Anyone who remembers New York City’s “golden age” of graffiti in the late ’70s and early ’80s knows about the lion spray-painted on the handball court at Corlears Junior

From Blog to Book

Since 2009, Hyperallergic has published tens of thousands of articles about art. But who are the writers behind these posts? And what drives them to write about art of al

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: The Story of One of the Few Artists at the Stonewall Uprising

We are thrilled to be back with a new episode of the Hyperallergic podcast.  For our one hundredth episode, we spoke with legendary collage and mixed media artist Tommy

The Cartoonist the US Right-Wing Political Establishment Loves to Hate

If you’ve been online, and especially on Twitter, then you probably know the name Eli Valley and his brushy drawings that use the grotesque and absurd to make larger poin

Artists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin Discuss Digital Combines

Artists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin have been at the leading edge of digitally informed contemporary art that explores the boundaries of programming, digital aesthetics