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§ 02 Recent
Latest arrivals
The Ronettes and the Architectural Blueprint of the Modern Pop Sound
The Hybridization of Electronic Performance at Coachella
The Architecture of Perception: Josef Albers and Relative Color
The Lot Radio Showcases Tame Impala's Extended Live Format
Ruth Asawa's Wire Sculptures Suspended Art Between Craft and Fine Art
The Digital Resurrection of Electronic Music's Peak Moment
The Unwieldy City: MoMA PS1’s Greater New York
A Graceful Exit for Athens’s NEON
The Migration of Tiffany’s Light
§ 03 Editor's picks
- 01Art · Hyperallergic
Ai Weiwei and the Architecture of Silence
In a new meditation on state control, the dissident artist argues that the impulse to silence dissent is as much a Western malaise as an authoritarian tool.
- 02Art · Hyperallergic
The Ghosts of the Canton Trade
A new study by art historian Winnie Wong explores the 'tombstone' labels of museums and the hidden identities of 18th-century Chinese portraitists.
- 03Art · Hyperallergic
A Monument to Escape Rises in Philadelphia
Amid a legal battle over the erasure of slavery exhibits, artist indira allegra’s schooner sails honor Ona Judge’s flight from the Washington household.
- 04Art · Hyperallergic
The Politics of Presence: Barbara Chase-Riboud and the US Pavilion
As the US prepares for the 2026 Venice Biennale, the decision by high-profile artists to decline the commission highlights the friction between national representation and personal conviction.
- 05Art · Hyperallergic
The Persistence of the Studio in the Post-Industrial City
As DUMBO transitions from a grit-and-brick enclave to a high-end destination, the annual Open Studios event offers a rare look at the creative labor still happening behind closed doors.
§ 02 The Big Read
Analysis & context
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The Lived Texture of the New York Survey
From the gritty realism of MoMA PS1 to the provocative portraits of Joan Semmel, New York’s latest exhibitions capture a city in flux.
Geopolitics and the Fragile Bloom of the Gulf Art Market
As regional conflict shatters the image of the Middle East as a stable luxury haven, major art fairs and high-end retailers are scaling back their ambitious expansions.
The Persistent Echoes of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
At Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, a new blockbuster exhibition examines how the Roman poet’s tales of transformation continue to haunt the Western visual imagination.
The Living Museum: From Rave Floors to Rock Art
As institutions look to the future, they are finding inspiration in the temporary belonging of rave culture and the ancient permanence of newly discovered rock art.
Marina Abramović and the Topography of the Balkan Soul
A new exhibition at Berlin’s Gropius Bau explores the intersections of ritual, eroticism, and collective mourning in the artist’s first major city solo show in decades.
The Institutional Agility of LACMA
For sixty years, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has operated with a startup’s appetite for risk, building an archive through strategic pivots and a relentless focus on the contemporary.
A Century of Provenance: Renoir’s Nini Lopez Masterpiece Returns to Market
After 97 years in the Whitney Payson family collection, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s portrait of Nini Lopez heads to Christie’s with a $35 million estimate.
Theaster Gates and the Reclamation of David Drake
The artist’s new Gagosian exhibition marks the culmination of a decades-long engagement with the work of David Drake, the enslaved 19th-century "poet-potter."
The Living Memory of the Arboretum
In Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, artist Jean Shin uses traditional Korean earthworks to commemorate the site’s fallen trees.
The Digital Eye in the Renaissance Workshop
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are using machine learning to parse the collaborative brushwork of El Greco and his apprentices.
The Unbuilt Pantheon: Trump’s Sculpture Garden Faces a Bureaucratic Void
Proposed as a sprawling tribute to 250 American figures, Donald Trump’s sculpture garden remains a conceptual ghost as its 2026 deadline approaches.
Mexico Reroutes $8 Billion Rail Project to Preserve Ancient Rock Art
The discovery of 4,000-year-old petroglyphs in the state of Hidalgo has prompted a shift in the planned passenger line connecting Mexico City and Querétaro.