In Memoriam
Remembering Raghu Rai, Jack Thornell, and Jarvis Rockwell
This week, we honor India’s most celebrated photojournalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, and a multi-media artist.
Lisa Yin Zhang
New York Newsletter
Miniature Model and Giant Buddha
This week: a miniature model at MCNY, a giant Buddha on the High Line, Greater New York, and more.
Community
Required Reading
This week, a museum as a site of motherhood, the amazing and terrible ways writers make their livings, Nara Smith as a performance artist? And more.
In Memoriam
Remembering Desmond Morris, James Hayward, and Flo Oy Wong
This week, we honor a surrealist and zoologist, a monochrome abstractionist, and a pillar of Oakland’s Chinatown.
Feature
What We Loved (And Didn’t) in “Greater New York”
Plus, the works we’re on the fence about in the massive MoMA PS1 survey.
New York Newsletter
Joan Semmel & Rama Duwaji
MoMA PS1 opens its once-every-half-decade “Greater New York” survey. Plus, we interview the great Joan Semmel and NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji.
Books Newsletter
Ai Weiwei Wrote the Book on Censorship
Plus, inside a Black Panther family album, predatory art-world relationships, and the unknown Qing Dynasty trade portraitists.
Art Review
MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” Is Gritty, Stunning, and Gutting
The survey, which happens every five years, rejects the out-of-towner’s glossy surfaces in favor of the view from inside.
In Memoriam
Remembering Pearl Fryar, Siri Aurdal, and Frank Stack
This week, we honor a self-taught topiary artist, a mainstay of ’60s Scandinavian art, and author of what may be the first underground comic.
Feature
What Do We Really Think of the New New Museum?
Hyperallergic’s editors sit down for an earnest conversation about the institution’s expanded building and inaugural exhibition.
New York Newsletter
The New New Museum
The Manhattan institution reopens this week! Plus, the sari in NYC, Gainsborough, Carol Bove, and a tiny haven for experimental art in Brooklyn.
Feature
The Tiny Brooklyn Project Space Resisting the Gallery Machine
The non-commercial Greenpoint-based space Subtitled NYC models the tentative ways we make do in everyday life.