Good Muslim Artist, Bad Muslim Artist
Hyperallergicby Hyperallergic28d ago
After Mahmood Mamdani published Good Muslim, Bad Muslim in 2004, artist Naeem Mohaiemen immediately recognized himself after 9/11 in its pages.
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top 76%The Battle of New York
Hyperallergicby Hakim Bishara12 Sept 2026
September 7, noon: It’s Labor Day but some labor has to be done. I see a young man at a cafe wearing a hat embroidered with the words “Contemporary Art Market.” If only he knew, I mutter, and bury...
Standing in the Shadow of No Towers
Hyperallergicby Naeem Mohaiemen11 Sept 2026
By August, the Tribeca nightclub Vinyl had gone into a Peter Gatien-era meltdown. Time magazine ran a dramatic cover story the year prior (“What Ecstasy Does to Your Brain”) and the dancefloor had...
Brooklyn, Say Hello to Your First Craft Supply Library
Hyperallergicby Anna Lee11 Sept 2026
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) officially launched its first-ever lending program for craft supplies on Wednesday, September 9.
15 Fall Art -Ennials, From St. Louis to Dakar
Hyperallergicby Phillip Pyle11 Sept 2026
The 61st Venice Biennale is on view through late November, but fall is a time of beginnings, so it is only fitting that many other biennials and triennials opening across the world this season...
Joel-Peter Witkin’s God-Loving, Gender-Bending Art
Hyperallergicby David S. Rubin11 Sept 2026
LOS ANGELES — Although octogenarian Joel-Peter Witkin’s photography has sparked controversy for its sometimes macabre subject matter, his five-decade retrospective at Fahey/Klein Gallery reveals...
A View From the Easel
Hyperallergicby Lakshmi Rivera Amin11 Sept 2026
Welcome to the 354th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace.
Pope.L Invites Us to Think Through the American Dream
Hyperallergicby Channelle Chevelle Russell11 Sept 2026
A headless man stares out with no eyes. An absurd study in portraiture both aesthetically and thematically coincident with Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man and rendered here in acrylic, oil...
Excavating Craft Histories Through Archives
Hyperallergicby Center for Craft11 Sept 2026
Craft Archive Fellowship Virtual Program: Archives in Action Wednesday, September 23 from 5 to 6:30pm (EST) Please join us for Archives in Action, a virtual panel discussion celebrating the...
Artists Reflect on 25 Years Since 9/11
Hyperallergicby Hyperallergic11 Sept 2026
I was four years old when the Twin Towers fell, and my memory is a mishmash of confusion: my grandmother picking me up early from Pre-K, a pillar of smoke out the rearview window, asking my father...
Artists Reflect on 9/11 and the Wounds of the “War on Terror”
Hyperallergicby Lakshmi Rivera Amin10 Sept 2026
Every year on September 11, New Yorkers pay tribute to the victims of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center — and to the wounds of the weeks and years after.
A Portrait of an Artist as a Dominatrix
Hyperallergicby Lisa Yin Zhang10 Sept 2026
Olivia Wilde plays Erika Tracy, a contemporary art superstar-slash-sociopath (is there a difference?)
Art Books and Scholarship from the National Gallery of Art
Hyperallergicby National Gallery of Art10 Sept 2026
From the printed page to digital storytelling, the National Gallery’s publications bring art to everyone.
Testicle Art Is So Back
Hyperallergicby Valentina Di Liscia10 Sept 2026
When country singer Kacey Musgraves appeared onstage atop a pair of sparkly testicles during her Middle of Nowhere Tour, we immediately conjured Alexandra Rubinstein’s gonad-shaped “disco balls,”...
Announcing the 2026 Rabkin Prize Winners
Hyperallergicby Rabkin Foundation10 Sept 2026
Marking a decade of support for arts writers, the Rabkin Foundation has named its 2026 recipients of the Rabkin Prize, awarding eight visual arts journalists $50,000 each in recognition of their...
Lonnie Bunch’s Resignation Is a Wake-Up Call
Hyperallergicby Ed Simon9 Sept 2026
In 2003, a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin successfully defended a dissertation based on meticulous research across French, Spanish, and English. Kevin D.
A Brief History of Testicle Art
Hyperallergicby Phillip Pyle9 Sept 2026
How does one write an art history of testicle-shaped disco balls? Does one begin with the most recent iteration of disco balls and trace their way back, through the raucous hollers and blacklit...
Women Painters Lead Brazil’s New Wave of Figuration
Hyperallergicby Ela Bittencourt9 Sept 2026
After years of institutional exhibitions of Brazilian painting often limited to early-modernist figuration and mid-century abstraction — and the work of Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti, Lygia...
Voices in Print: New Jersey Black Women Printmakers Shaping the American Narrative
Hyperallergicby Morven Museum & Garden9 Sept 2026
Curated by Judith K. Brodsky and Rhinold L. Ponder, Voices in Print is the inaugural exhibition to open in Morven’s Stockton Education Center.
Lonnie G. Bunch Has Had Enough
Hyperallergicby Hyperallergic9 Sept 2026
Lonnie G. Bunch III has had it. After months of incessant harassment and political prodding from the Trump White House, the Smithsonian Secretary announced that he's quitting his job with “very...