[ad_1]  Art #Ekaterina Popova #home #painting “Stay Light” (2024), oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches. All images courtesy of A Very Serious Gallery, shared with permission Sweeping thick brushstrokes across the canvas,  Ekaterina Popova (previously) emphasizes the subtle textures of home. Layers of sheets and quilts drape across a bed, sunlight streams through thin, […]

[ad_1] In the old Pfizer factory building at the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Broadway Triangle in Brooklyn, The Bishop Gallery’s first-floor space comfortably bridges the gaps between access, authenticity, and ambition in the art world. Led by Brooklyn residents and long-time best friends Stevenson Dunn Jr. and Erwin John and named after their educational mentor […]

[ad_1]  Art Social Issues #activism #identity #Moises Salazar #portraits #textiles “El Gran Varon” (2022), glitter and acrylic on canvas, yarn, 46 x 36 x 2.5 inches Glitter has a deep connection to queer culture and identity. Appearing in drag performances in the early 20th century, the sparkling material quickly became associated with gender-bending, and […]

[ad_1] A dozen staffers at the University of the Arts (UArts) have filed a class action lawsuit accusing the Philadelphia arts school of violating federal labor protections after recently announcing that it would be permanently closing within a week. Filed on behalf of all of the nearly 700 employees at UArts, including faculty, maintenance workers, […]

[ad_1]  History Photography #exhibition #portraits #street photography #Vivian Maier Chicago, Illinois, May 16, 1957. All images © Vivian Maier, courtesy of Fotografiska New York, shared with permission In 2007, Chicago resident John Maloof landed on the discovery of a lifetime at a thrift auction house on the city’s Northwest Side. A stunning archive of […]

[ad_1] Simrah Farrukh, photo from the series Yeah, you look like a Chamari: Pyara Parivaar (2023), 48 x 36 inches (all photos Mallika Chennupaty/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) OAKLAND, Calif. — A large portrait of three femmes sits at the entrance of the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Photographed by Simrah Farrukh, they stand united with their long, […]

[ad_1]  History Photography #Africa #fabric #portraits #Tamary Kudita “Liberty.” All images © Tamary Kudita, shared with permission Born in Zimbabwe, photographer Tamary Kudita traces her ancestry to the historical Orange Free State, a Dutch colonial region and home to the Boers in Southern Africa that was incorporated into the British Empire in the early 19th […]

[ad_1] After a massive pro-Palestine action yielded dozens of arrests at the Brooklyn Museum last Friday, May 31, activists are decrying what they say was a disproportionate police response at the demonstration. Eyewitnesses including both protesters and Hyperallergic reporters noted the significant presence of riot police and members of the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) […]

[ad_1]  Art #Derrick Velasquez #sculpture “Untitled 422” (2024), vinyl and maple, 30 x 29 x 1 inches. All images courtesy of Skye Gallery, shared with permission Like vinyl rainbows arching across the horizon, the wall sculptures that arise from Derrick Velasquez’s Denver studio capture movement and color in dynamic planes. The artist layers striped […]

[ad_1] French authorities have charged performance artist Deborah De Robertis over her intervention involving the tagging of Gustave Courbet’s “The Origin of the World” (1866) with the words “MeToo” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz earlier last month. The artist was charged on May 29 with property damage and theft, Le Monde reported. The disruption, which took […]