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The curators of the Hammer Museum’s LA artist biennial described their technique as “no-methodology methodology.” The resulting exhibition feels bland, unimaginative, and contains few surprises.
Made in L.A.’s Anti-Curation Doesn’t Work
The curators’ self described “no-methodology methodology” results in a scattered exhibition that feels bland and curatorially unimaginative.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The curators of the Hammer Museum’s LA artist biennial described their technique as “no-methodology methodology.” The resulting exhibition feels bland, unimaginative, and contains few surprises.
“I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in the sun, moon and stars,” Hildegard von Bingen wrote of herself — but she understood that such an invitation to infinity was true for all of us.
Hildegard von Bingen’s Eternal Garden
The 12th-century mystic continues to attract devotees among both Catholic clergy and New Age gurus, Christian traditionalists and radical feminists.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in the sun, moon and stars,” Hildegard von Bingen wrote of herself — but she understood that such an invitation to infinity was true for all of us.
Sotheby’s has a new home at the Breuer Building. Unlike the museums that lived there in the past, now you can buy whatever you like right off the walls, for the right price.
Madison Ave Gets New Luxury Store: Sotheby’s
The auction house’s new headquarters in the iconic Brutalist building includes private showrooms, jewelry sales, and of course, Maurizio Cattelan’s solid gold toilet.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Sotheby’s has a new home at the Breuer Building. Unlike the museums that lived there in the past, now you can buy whatever you like right off the walls, for the right price.
Remember the iPhone-sized painting by Pablo Picasso that went missing in Spain last month, ahead of its scheduled shipment to a Granada museum? Turns out, a neighbor named Dolores had accidentally picked up the package.
The Week in Art Crime and Mischief
Googly eyes on a sculpture, updates in the Louvre heist, a teenager arrested for damaging exhibits at the Met. Art crime made the news this month.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Remember the iPhone-sized painting by Pablo Picasso that went missing in Spain last month, ahead of its scheduled shipment to a Granada museum? Turns out, a neighbor named Dolores had accidentally picked up the package.
Employees at the Detroit Institute of Arts have gone public with their push to unionize, hopping on the years-long wave of arts and culture institution workforces organizing nationwide.
Detroit Institute of Arts Workers Push to Unionize
“The people at the 'bottom' are also very important and all deserve to be getting a living wage,” said one of the workers.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Employees at the Detroit Institute of Arts have gone public with their push to unionize, hopping on the years-long wave of arts and culture institution workforces organizing nationwide.
Parallels between Mira Nair’s films and Zohran Mamdani’s politics, an irreverent ’90s trans punk zine, the millennia-long history of fan fiction, Ms. Rachel’s dress, and more in this week’s Required Reading.
Required Reading
This week: Mira Nair’s influence on Zohran, journalists sound the alarm on the genocide in Sudan, a trans punk zine makes a comeback, Ms. Rachel’s dress, stained-glass leaves, and more.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Parallels between Mira Nair’s films and Zohran Mamdani’s politics, an irreverent ’90s trans punk zine, the millennia-long history of fan fiction, Ms. Rachel’s dress, and more in this week’s Required Reading.
The US can’t make up its mind about a Venice Biennale representative, the Studio Museum reopens in a beautiful new building, the Philadelphia Art Museum suddenly dismissed its director and CEO, and more art news in this week’s Art Movements.
Art Movements: Will Anyone Represent the US at the Venice Biennale?
The US continues to bungle the Venice Biennale, a new Studio Museum in Harlem opens, and the Louvre’s security password was, yep, “Louvre.”
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November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The US can’t make up its mind about a Venice Biennale representative, the Studio Museum reopens in a beautiful new building, the Philadelphia Art Museum suddenly dismissed its director and CEO, and more art news in this week’s Art Movements.
Art schools are marketed as gateways to success. But Damien Davis argues that most leave with loans, little security, and skills that don’t match the marketplace.
The Art School Debt Trap
MFA programs are marketed as gateways to success. The fine print tells a different story.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Art schools are marketed as gateways to success. But Damien Davis argues that most leave with loans, little security, and skills that don’t match the marketplace.
Even laid flat, the collars on Carmen Argote’s artworks bob up. It’s like a magician went out to an orchard and performed a massive vanishing act, and the laborers left their uniforms behind. Except now, the magicians are ICE agents, and the workers might never return to the audience’s applause.
Carmen Argote’s Maximalist Homage to Garment Workers
The artist makes each article of clothing in her current exhibition from the same sewing pattern, but they all have their own personalities.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Even laid flat, the collars on Carmen Argote’s artworks bob up. It’s like a magician went out to an orchard and performed a massive vanishing act, and the laborers left their uniforms behind. Except now, the magicians are ICE agents, and the workers might never return to the audience’s applause.
In this week’s A View From the Easel, artists turn floors into paintings and discarded items into works of art.
A View From the Easel
“My studio offers fewer distractions and less cat hair.”
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November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In this week’s A View From the Easel, artists turn floors into paintings and discarded items into works of art.
Nearly four decades after they came together, a Chilean indie band’s self-titled debut, “María Sonora,” has finally been formally released — an event marked by their first live gig in 31 years.
Digging Into Chile’s Punk Underground
With Hueso Records, artist Iván Navarro wants to bring back the music of his youth from legendary Chilean indie and punk bands like María Sonora.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Nearly four decades after they came together, a Chilean indie band’s self-titled debut, “María Sonora,” has finally been formally released — an event marked by their first live gig in 31 years.
The MoMA PS1 is being sued by a visitor who suffered from a concussion and lasting medical problems after a wall-mounted panel at the museum fell and struck her in 2022.
Visitor Sues MoMA PS1 After Onsite Concussion
A Norwegian citizen was struck by a wall panel during a visit to the museum in 2022.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The MoMA PS1 is being sued by a visitor who suffered from a concussion and lasting medical problems after a wall-mounted panel at the museum fell and struck her in 2022.
Not one work in the exhibition “Global Fascisms” at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt acknowledges the world burning just beyond the door. In Jara Nassar’s words, “What is the role of art when the world is on fire?”
The Irony of a Fascism Exhibition in Germany
Once a custodian of critical culture, Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt has become a model of capitulation to state control.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Not one work in the exhibition “Global Fascisms” at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt acknowledges the world burning just beyond the door. In Jara Nassar’s words, “What is the role of art when the world is on fire?”
Three free speech groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, have accused a nonprofit museum, History Colorado Center, of censoring an artwork that contained pro-Palestine symbols and criticism of ICE.
Colorado Museum Accused of Censoring Anti-ICE, Pro-Palestine Artwork
History Colorado Center cited campaign finance laws. Free speech groups are not convinced.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Three free speech groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, have accused a nonprofit museum, History Colorado Center, of censoring an artwork that contained pro-Palestine symbols and criticism of ICE.
The Studio Museum in Harlem has a new, stunning home. The 57-year-old New York institution, dedicated to artists of African descent, inaugurated its new building in a press preview ahead of its grand public reopening next Saturday.
A Look Inside the Studio Museum’s New Home
After a seven-year closure, the beloved Harlem institution is opening its new building to the public on November 15.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The Studio Museum in Harlem has a new, stunning home. The 57-year-old New York institution, dedicated to artists of African descent, inaugurated its new building in a press preview ahead of its grand public reopening next Saturday.
Xin Wang’s pastel drawings include skulls, dancing women, frenzied worshippers, goddesses, and lovers who wished to exist outside of law and propriety, to live carnally on the edge of chaos.
A Trip Through Xin Wang’s Hallucinatory World
Her vision is simultaneously utopian and anarchic, erotic and dissipating, blooming with life and haunted.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Xin Wang’s pastel drawings include skulls, dancing women, frenzied worshippers, goddesses, and lovers who wished to exist outside of law and propriety, to live carnally on the edge of chaos.
“We’re tackling that tech utopian idea of 1950s California, where it was considered progress to convert rivers into concrete canals and computerize the distribution of water, and no one really questioned this.” —Rowan Wernham, director of “Pistachio Wars”
The Museum Donors Accused of Sucking California Dry
Pistachio Wars argues that billionaires Lynda and Stewart Resnick are harming California’s environment as they artwash their damage.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“We’re tackling that tech utopian idea of 1950s California, where it was considered progress to convert rivers into concrete canals and computerize the distribution of water, and no one really questioned this.” —Rowan Wernham, director of “Pistachio Wars”
In Memoriam this week, we’re honoring Alison Knowles, the first woman of Fluxus; Jackie Ferrara, who contained chaos in geometric forms; John Adams Griffin, abstract painter and Color Field pioneer; and Mitchell D. Kahan, former director of the Akron Art Museum.
Remembering Jackie Ferrara, Alison Knowles, and John Adams Griefen
This week, we honor a sculptor who lived and died on her own terms, a Fluxus pioneer, a color field painter, and more.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In Memoriam this week, we’re honoring Alison Knowles, the first woman of Fluxus; Jackie Ferrara, who contained chaos in geometric forms; John Adams Griffin, abstract painter and Color Field pioneer; and Mitchell D. Kahan, former director of the Akron Art Museum.
“I am still in ecstasy over this,” said artist Molly Crabapple in an interview about Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City.
Molly Crabapple Is Savoring Zohran’s Win
“We don’t have enough examples of winning, so it’s really important to taste the sweetness when we do,” the artist and activist told Hyperallergic.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“I am still in ecstasy over this,” said artist Molly Crabapple in an interview about Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City.
Beyond the ballot box, Mayor Mamdani memes are another way the people have spoken — from Shakira Law to Zohran fan edits, to a newly reignited hope for dating in New York City.
The Best Memes From the New York City Mayoral Election
Hot mayor representation, Shakira law, and unemployed Andrew Cuomo — all you could want, and more.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Beyond the ballot box, Mayor Mamdani memes are another way the people have spoken — from Shakira Law to Zohran fan edits, to a newly reignited hope for dating in New York City.
Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.
Opportunities in November 2025
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation, Sculpture Space, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.
After an emergency board meeting at the Philadelphia Art Museum, Director and CEO Sasha Suda was ousted via email, three years into her five-year contract with the museum and less than a month into the institution’s controversial rebrand.
Why Was the Philadelphia Art Museum Director Sacked?
After an emergency board meeting at the Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM), Director and CEO Sasha Suda was dismissed from her post yesterday, November 4.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
After an emergency board meeting at the Philadelphia Art Museum, Director and CEO Sasha Suda was ousted via email, three years into her five-year contract with the museum and less than a month into the institution’s controversial rebrand.
The promise of change drives creativity everywhere. It’s no surprise that most neighborhoods where artists and the creative community live in New York City voted overwhelmingly for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
The Creative Essence of Zohran Mamdani's Ascent
The sentiments that drove his inspiring campaign should be familiar to any artistic soul.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The promise of change drives creativity everywhere. It’s no surprise that most neighborhoods where artists and the creative community live in New York City voted overwhelmingly for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages” at The Met Cloisters is a counterargument to pop culture depictions of the Middle Ages, dominated by cisgender regulations and gender-normative binaries.
Mapping the Queer Landscape of Medieval Europe
A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages” at The Met Cloisters is a counterargument to pop culture depictions of the Middle Ages, dominated by cisgender regulations and gender-normative binaries.