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Science fiction and fantasy writers owe a lot to the author Ursula K. Le Guin, who, as it turns out, was also a visual artist. Map-making helped her find her way in her invented worlds. Today, an exhibition of these works begins to unlock her secrets.
Take a Trip Through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Conjured Worlds
The fantasy and science fiction writer found her way into her invented worlds by making maps and then mentally exploring them.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Science fiction and fantasy writers owe a lot to the author Ursula K. Le Guin, who, as it turns out, was also a visual artist. Map-making helped her find her way in her invented worlds. Today, an exhibition of these works begins to unlock her secrets.
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A German newspaper commissioned an article from Ai Weiwei but then refused to publish it. You can now read the artist’s original reflections in full on Hyperallergic.
What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier
A German newspaper commissioned an article from me but then refused to publish it.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A German newspaper commissioned an article from Ai Weiwei but then refused to publish it. You can now read the artist’s original reflections in full on Hyperallergic.
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Native artists are staging an unsanctioned exhibition at the Met’s American Wing, using digital tools to layer Indigenous writing and imagery over artworks that erase their existence from the American landscape.
Indigenous Artists Reclaim The Met’s American Wing
An unsanctioned exhibition uses AR to insert works by Native artists, like Cannupa Hanska Luger and Jeremy Dennis, into the museum’s 19th-century landscapes.
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October 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Native artists are staging an unsanctioned exhibition at the Met’s American Wing, using digital tools to layer Indigenous writing and imagery over artworks that erase their existence from the American landscape.
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Opportunities in October 2025
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Asian Cultural Council, Banff Centre, the Thoma Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art…
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October 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.
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Starting this weekend, the New York Film Festival is screening movies that tackle what it takes to live and work as an artist, with films about Peter Hujar, Miguel Abreu Gallery, and Martin Scorsese.
The New York Film Festival Dives Into the Art Scene
From feature films to experimental shorts, several highlights of this year’s lineup explore what it takes to live and work as an artist.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Starting this weekend, the New York Film Festival is screening movies that tackle what it takes to live and work as an artist, with films about Peter Hujar, Miguel Abreu Gallery, and Martin Scorsese.
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“I was surrounded by really strong Black women and always in awe at their abilities to raise families and to nourish them and to work — they all were workers — and then at the same time, to just bring beauty into the world as artists or as craftpersons.” —Alison Saar
Alison Saar’s Artistic Revolution
The artist talks to Hyperallergic about being raised by strong Black women, creating with abandon, and the full-circle significance of receiving the David C. Driskell Prize.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“I was surrounded by really strong Black women and always in awe at their abilities to raise families and to nourish them and to work — they all were workers — and then at the same time, to just bring beauty into the world as artists or as craftpersons.” —Alison Saar
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“Playboy had girls in furs, feathers and lights. They had faces like beautiful angels. I didn’t understand why boy pictures weren’t like that.” —artist James Bigood
James Bidgood’s Dreamy Homoerotica
Best known for his cult film, “Pink Narcissus,” Bidgood’s 1960s photographs of men as mythological figures are equally alluring.
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August 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“Playboy had girls in furs, feathers and lights. They had faces like beautiful angels. I didn’t understand why boy pictures weren’t like that.” —artist James Bigood
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“If Geronimo’s surrender marks the culmination of the shift from savage to ward, his portrait represents a similar turn in how Indians were imagined in the settler mind.” —Joseph M. Pierce, author of “Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair”
This Is Not the Real Geronimo
Elbridge Ayer Burbank’s haunting paintings of the Apache leader capture a likeness that was only ever real from the vantage point of a White man with a gun, canvas, or camera.
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August 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“If Geronimo’s surrender marks the culmination of the shift from savage to ward, his portrait represents a similar turn in how Indians were imagined in the settler mind.” —Joseph M. Pierce, author of “Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair”
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“We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus — making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps.” — Ann Burroughs, CEO of the Japanese American National Museum
LA Museum Condemns US Border Patrol Presence on Its Grounds
“We are outraged and deeply distressed,” said the Japanese American National Museum, noting the “stark” parallels to the arrests of Japanese Americans on the site in 1942.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
“We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus — making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps.” — Ann Burroughs, CEO of the Japanese American National Museum
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Nothing outsmarts autocrats like humorous resistance: The latest unlikely people’s hero famously flung a Subway sandwich at Border Protection officers last week in Washington, DC.
Sub-versive DC Protester Becomes Memeorable
Tributes to the “hero with a hero” who flung a Subway sandwich at a federal agent have emerged across the nation’s capital and online.
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August 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Nothing outsmarts autocrats like humorous resistance: The latest unlikely people’s hero famously flung a Subway sandwich at Border Protection officers last week in Washington, DC.
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“The threat of defunding [the Institute of American Indian Arts] is not only an added stressor to an actively rebuilding and healing Indigenous community, but is also heartbreaking to those who know the worth of an experience like the one IAIA has to offer.” –artist Rose B. Simpson, IAIA trustee
We Can’t Afford to Lose the Institute of American Indian Arts
The threat of defunding this precious, influential university is heartbreaking to those of us who know the worth of the IAIA experience.
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August 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“The threat of defunding [the Institute of American Indian Arts] is not only an added stressor to an actively rebuilding and healing Indigenous community, but is also heartbreaking to those who know the worth of an experience like the one IAIA has to offer.” –artist Rose B. Simpson, IAIA trustee
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Photographer Stanley Greenberg has spent decades documenting the New York City water system: “If you start to see the city differently, then I’ve done my job.”
A Photographer Brings New York City’s Water System to the Surface
Stanley Greenberg has spent decades answering the question of how water arrives in our taps and building interest in this vast and impressive system.
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August 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Photographer Stanley Greenberg has spent decades documenting the New York City water system: “If you start to see the city differently, then I’ve done my job.”
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Why did Jerry Saltz feel compelled to post on Instagram about the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? He called them “acts of unimaginable suffering,” but for survivors like Howard Kakita, such suffering is still as clear as the summer sky on August 6, 1945.
A Hiroshima Survivor’s Message for Jerry Saltz
“I don't think there's any kind of justification for the dropping of the bomb,” said Howard Kakita in response to the art critic’s statement in defense of the American atomic bombing of Japan in 1945.
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August 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Why did Jerry Saltz feel compelled to post on Instagram about the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? He called them “acts of unimaginable suffering,” but for survivors like Howard Kakita, such suffering is still as clear as the summer sky on August 6, 1945.
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“City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s-1940s” at the National Gallery Singapore doesn’t refer to those otherized by Western discourse as a subsection of a city of “insiders.” Rather, it remaps interwar Paris itself as a city of others.
The Asian Modernists of Paris
Across more than 220 works by Asian artists, a landmark exhibition tells a different story of the city’s golden age.
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August 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s-1940s” at the National Gallery Singapore doesn’t refer to those otherized by Western discourse as a subsection of a city of “insiders.” Rather, it remaps interwar Paris itself as a city of others.
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If the Whitney, unlike the Smithsonian, is so anti-censorship, how come they suspended their Independent Study Program over pro-Palestinian content? Former Associate Director Sara Nadal-Melsió examines this dissonance and the resulting impact on the arts community.
I Lost My Job at the Whitney, but the Art Community Lost Much More
The museum suspended its Independent Study Program, a space of collective thought and political solidarity, during a time when it is most needed.
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August 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If the Whitney, unlike the Smithsonian, is so anti-censorship, how come they suspended their Independent Study Program over pro-Palestinian content? Former Associate Director Sara Nadal-Melsió examines this dissonance and the resulting impact on the arts community.
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“Alligator Alcatraz” has halted construction after a judge ruled that the detention center puts Miccosukee heritage and several endangered species at risk.
“Alligator Alcatraz” Construction Halted, But Native Heritage Remains at Risk
The Miccosukee Tribe says the notorious detention center is located close to “hundreds, if not thousands, of protected ceremonial and religious sites.”
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August 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“Alligator Alcatraz” has halted construction after a judge ruled that the detention center puts Miccosukee heritage and several endangered species at risk.
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The National Gallery in London’s José María Velasco exhibition is, staggeringly, its first show dedicated to a Latin-American artist. Critics who call the painter “unromantic” miss the point: Velasco should be viewed as a technical powerhouse who rejected nationalistic European sensibilities.
José María Velasco Lovingly Captured a Changing Mexico
He celebrated the physical entity of Mexico in its exactness, rather than appealing to ingrained nationalistic European sensibilities of history painting.
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August 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The National Gallery in London’s José María Velasco exhibition is, staggeringly, its first show dedicated to a Latin-American artist. Critics who call the painter “unromantic” miss the point: Velasco should be viewed as a technical powerhouse who rejected nationalistic European sensibilities.
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Interested in learning more about the materiality of paint and the intersection of science, culture, and creativity? Join us for a virtual discussion with artists Rina Banerjee and Ellie Irons on August 12 to learn more about their approach to color.
Member Event: Artists and the Alchemy of Color
Join us on August 12 for a virtual conversation about paint and pigment-making with artists Rina Banerjee and Ellie Irons.
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August 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Interested in learning more about the materiality of paint and the intersection of science, culture, and creativity? Join us for a virtual discussion with artists Rina Banerjee and Ellie Irons on August 12 to learn more about their approach to color.
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After seven years of renovations, the Studio Museum in Harlem will finally reopen to the public on November 15 with a look back at Tom Lloyd, the late sculptor and activist whose 1968 solo exhibition was the museum’s inaugural show.
Harlem’s Studio Museum Announces Reopening Date
After a seven-year renovation beset by delays, the New York institution returns with significantly expanded spaces and iconic works from its collection.
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August 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
After seven years of renovations, the Studio Museum in Harlem will finally reopen to the public on November 15 with a look back at Tom Lloyd, the late sculptor and activist whose 1968 solo exhibition was the museum’s inaugural show.
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Test your knowledge of public art gems from around the globe in our August Art Crossword, from “The Bean” in Chicago to the world-famous structure at the heart of Paris’s Champs-Élysées.
The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: Public Art Edition
Niki de Saint Phalle’s exuberant sculptures, street art in Puerto Rico, a certain infamous “bean,” a mural for Muddy Waters, and more in this month’s themed puzzle!
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August 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Test your knowledge of public art gems from around the globe in our August Art Crossword, from “The Bean” in Chicago to the world-famous structure at the heart of Paris’s Champs-Élysées.
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If the Whitney, unlike the Smithsonian, is so anti-censorship, how come they suspended their Independent Study Program over pro-Palestinian content? Former Associate Director Sara Nadal-Melsió examines this dissonance and the resulting impact on the arts community.
I Lost My Job at the Whitney, but the Art Community Lost Much More
The museum suspended its Independent Study Program, a space of collective thought and political solidarity, during a time when it is most needed.
hyperallergic.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If the Whitney, unlike the Smithsonian, is so anti-censorship, how come they suspended their Independent Study Program over pro-Palestinian content? Former Associate Director Sara Nadal-Melsió examines this dissonance and the resulting impact on the arts community.
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“You cannot erase memories,” said Mohammed Osman, whose home in Manbij, Syria, was destroyed in an airstrike by the US-led coalition in 2016. His former house is one of three homes modeled in “Patterns of Life,” Mona Chalabi’s exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt.
How Do You Remember a Home Reduced to Rubble?
Through interviews with survivors and satellite imagery, data journalist Mona Chalabi and SITU Research created models of razed houses in Gaza, Iraq, and Syria.
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August 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“You cannot erase memories,” said Mohammed Osman, whose home in Manbij, Syria, was destroyed in an airstrike by the US-led coalition in 2016. His former house is one of three homes modeled in “Patterns of Life,” Mona Chalabi’s exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt.
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After Amy Sherald withdrew her exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery over censorship concerns, the New Yorker put “Trans Forming Liberty” (2024), her contested painting of a Black, trans Lady Liberty, on its cover.
Amy Sherald’s Trans Lady Liberty Painting Graces New Yorker Cover
The artist withdrew her exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery over concerns that the artwork would be censored.
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August 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
After Amy Sherald withdrew her exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery over censorship concerns, the New Yorker put “Trans Forming Liberty” (2024), her contested painting of a Black, trans Lady Liberty, on its cover.
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Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.
Opportunities for Artists, Writers, and Art Workers in August 2025
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from Foundwork, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Princeton University, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and…
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August 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.
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There’s a reason Tove Jansson threw herself into writing the story of the Moomins. When World War II broke out, painting seemed meaningless. But in that moment, fashioning another world meant something — one where trolls aren’t enemies, but friends, and fairy tale conventions give way to justice.
How the Moomins Showed Us a More Compassionate World
At the Brooklyn Public Library, an exhibition on queer Finnish artist Tove Jansson's beloved characters reminds visitors of all ages that justice and joy are within our grasp.
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August 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
There’s a reason Tove Jansson threw herself into writing the story of the Moomins. When World War II broke out, painting seemed meaningless. But in that moment, fashioning another world meant something — one where trolls aren’t enemies, but friends, and fairy tale conventions give way to justice.