“A curator of European paintings reflects on an ancient Mesopotamian sculpture; a researcher of Islamic art ponders a bust from a German-Austrian sculptor; and a managing editor is reminded of his own experiences in a municipal office” in a new book from The Met. hyperallergic.com/the-met-muse...

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Imagine being an artist who profited for decades from an exploitative system, ignoring the publications that have been reporting on it day in and day out, and then penning a self-righteous essay in an academic journal about how the art world needs to wake up. Oh wait ...

It’s one thing to have to pay 50 cents for milk in your coffee. It’s another degree of humiliation altogether to have it be called a “Special Splash”…

Hyperallergic is hiring! We're looking for an intrepid Associate Editor and Staff Reporter to join us full-time in our office in Brooklyn. If you're an experienced journalist who knows that art and politics are deeply intertwined, I encourage you to apply. apply.workable.com/hyperallergi...

I wrote about the Epstein files and what it teaches us about the rot in the art world.

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

We love to see it!

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Rodolfo Walsh, the Argentine writer whose book “Operación masacre” (1957) is considered the first novel of investigative nonfiction (before Capote’s “In Cold Blood”), would have turned 99 yesterday if he hadn’t been shot and killed in Buenos Aires at the hands of the military dictatorship.

“AI processing your emails means sharing the content and metadata of those emails with Google’s cloud-based Gemini. While Google has denied that this data is used to train its AI, it’s certainly available to it.“

Five Venezuelan artists in the diaspora shared their thoughts with us in the aftermath of the US attacks. We are trying to reach artists in Venezuela, but many are afraid to speak. If you’d like to speak confidentially, you can reach me on Signal: valentinadl.67 hyperallergic.com/five-venezue...

“Lo que validamos por conveniencia hoy será precedente mañana. Si ofrecemos cobertura moral al bombardeo de Caracas porque Maduro ‘se lo merece’, el mecanismo ya está disponible para cualquier otro escenario.“ elpais.com/opinion/2026...

The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.

Small but loud and proud group of Palestine solidarity activists protesting Netanyahu’s visit to Surfside, Miami Beach on 12/31. Happy new year and Free Palestine.

January 1 might ring in a new year, but it's also a day when copyright protections expire for a bunch of cool old stuff that we can now freely access, republish, reinterpret, and revitalize.

HAPPY MAYOR MAMDANI DAY to all who celebrate!

Trump Spent 2025 Making Trans Lives Unlivable. It’s Time for Democrats to Defend Them. theintercept.com/2025/12/31/t... last column of the year @theintercept.com

a molecule is a group of non-monogamous moles

For artists, museum acquisitions are a major milestone. Young Joon Kwak told us the Leslie Lohman’s acquisition of her work, which addresses trans and nonbinary visibility, was “a way of saying we’re here, we’ve always been here, and we’re not going anywhere.” hyperallergic.com/15-landmark-...

For @hyperallergic.bsky.social, I rounded up 10 artworks that dared to call out the powerful, condemn injustices, and envision a better world in 2025. (Exactly 0 of them were on view at an art fair.) hyperallergic.com/10-artworks-...

This is my annual notice that if you are a brand I have purchased something from I do not need you to wish me a merry Christmas. Sincerely, a grinch

Greta Thunberg arrested in the UK for holding a sign. That’s how things are going.

Thank you Canada again for your services.

I have a lot of respect for Hell Gate so I really hope this 12-hour work day on a job description someone sent me is … just a typo

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

Hyperallergic staff writer @isafarfan.bsky.social talked to nine art models (the people who pose for artists in live drawing classes) about their fight for better pay and recognition. Truly a must-read story: hyperallergic.com/art-models-s...

Who am I to say that Somalis don’t have the right to Minnesota? I saw a few TikToks about it and that’s pretty much as factual as the Bible.

"The original story is about people forcibly going into exile and becoming refugees. It's about political violence. It's about authoritarianism. All that's already in the Gospel.” story by Emma Cieslik for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/anti-ice-nat...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

The unsung heroes of Miami Art Week. See our coverage at @hyperallergic.com

The lede photo depicts something so grotesque …  by @valentinadl.bsky.social

the plethora of depressing articles about reading lately made me think about how a person winds up a reader—and stays that way. it's not a science, that's for sure! the weird alchemy of childhood and curiosity and countless variables that all could have easily been different

I wanted to love Es Devlin’s rotating library on Miami Beach, but it’s a carousel of distraction that mirrors our reality hyperallergic.com/stop-putting...

For those looking beyond the typical Miami Art Week fare of international artists crammed in a fair booth… here’s a hyper-local show I loved writing about! hyperallergic.com/floridas-ind...

You can’t make this shit up.

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN. New Yorkers are tired of being priced out of their neighborhoods, not being able to afford healthy groceries, and the rich around them getting richer while prime real estate sits empty. #MayorMamdani

Happening now: Protesters chant “Cuomo, pick a side, justice or genocide” outside MoMA. Follow live coverage @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1054651/live...

Hyperallergic is creating a living archive of what it’s like to be an artist in the city voting in these pivotal elections. Follow our live feed below and DM me your thoughts!

Last night at @hyperallergic’s art themed Halloween.

if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is

Visual artists in NYC, I want to hear from you for a story for @hyperallergic.com! Why are you voting for Mamdani — or not? Tell me here, via DM, or email me at [email protected]

And this doesn’t even help the starving Argentinians, who are increasingly made poorer by the policies of a far-right Milei government that Trump supports. Lose-lose.

“When conversation becomes avoidance, when topics must not be mentioned, we are already living under the quiet logic of authoritarianism.” Today we published Ai Weiwei’s essay What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier. Read it on @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...

A horrifying, necessary read.

#NoKings Miami!

#NoKings NYC

I'm working on a story about what's happening in Chicago with ICE, and it's so clear to me that things people have been warning about are already here.