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Too late for the Whitney Biennial, too early for Armory Week, but through divine luck alone, I'm right on time for Snoopy in Style NYC. This free exhibition in Manhattan's Meatpacking District pinpoints the beloved cartoon beagle's global influence in art, fashion, sports, and music. If you know, you know; but for those who don't — saying I'm just a fan of Snoopy would be a gross understatement. Therefore, this is very serious to me. Like many others on the Zillen

There’s wonder everywhere you look — especially the places you overlook. Maybe, in the apartment next door, there’s a library of 3,000 zines, as in Michelle Millette’s Sherwood Forest Zine Library in Austin, Texas. Perhaps, that canal that cuts through your town is the site of an upstream odyssey, as it is for Z Behl and Kim Moloney, who are spending six hours a day paddling up 350 miles of the Erie Canal. Speaking of overlooked wonder, let me introduce you to ou

After the lazy, hazy days of summer, fall is a time to refocus and reimagine, and that goes for the art world too. This season, exhibitions across the city delve into important but underrecognized artists and movements, challenging what we thought we knew. Monica Majoli presents a series of drawings inspired by an influential lesbian photography workshop alongside material from the erstwhile Sisterhood Bookstore. Nurtured Flames at the Armory features Indigenous artists who explore Native fire s

“Hujar:Contact” offers a deep examination of the life, times, and creative evolution of  master photographer Peter Hujar. The exhibition features more than 110 contact sheets and 20 enlargements from the Morgan Library and Museum’s collection, which includes over 5,700 contact sheets from throughout the artist’s career.Peter Hujar (1934–1987) began filing contact sheets and assigning them job numbers at age 21. His records make it possible to track his dev

WATERFORD, NY — The scene in Waterford, Upstate New York, in early August: A group of kind elders sing with gusto under wilted American flags. Excited supporters hover over artist duo Z Behl and Kim Moloney — together, called “BALONEY STEEL” — as they prepare to embark on what they call the “Mule’s Passage,” and paddle 350 miles (~563 km) to Buffalo. After brief speeches and an emotional spoken-word piece by playwright Judy Tate, found

The Minnesota State Fair took down a crop artwork containing an anti-Trump slogan at the artist's request this weekend, after she was doxxed, harassed, and threatened by right-wing agitators, as first reported by the Minnesota Star Tribune.Against a backdrop of black and red beans, the artwork reads “8647” in yellow corn kernels, a sequence often used in protest of President Donald Trump. To "86" something, in the hospitality industry, means to get rid of it, and &qu

AUSTIN — Last year, among a wave of protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violence, a gathering outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, took a turn when a demonstrator shot a police officer in the neck. Among the defendants handed lengthy prison sentences in connection with the incident is tattoo artist Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada. Estrada did not attend the protest, but he was sentenced to 30 years over a charge of concealing

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It’s hard to believe it’s already September. How did it sneak up on us like that? Is it because August ended with a string of monumental losses within the arts and culture sector that left us bereft and disoriented? Let’s hear it for artist Justin Blinde, who created a device that makes electric City Bikes slow down in less affordable neighborhoods. That’s art activism you can actually feel. Read Eliana Perozo’s report, co-published with the nonprofit news

This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2025 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft.I first visited St. Helena Island off the South Carolina coast in 2021. Like Louisiana, it was one of the few places I had traveled in the United States where I could hear Liberia in the way people spoke. I do not know how to fully explain it. It was in the rhythm of Gullah speech, what my mother would ca

Staging a retrospective at the Met Museum for a fashion designer convicted of antisemitic and anti-Asian hate speech was not the Costume Institute's best idea. After serious backlash, British designer John Galliano finally withdrew, and the show was officially canceled. Staff Writer Anna Lee has more about this debacle. Speaking of unsavory characters, billionaire Peter Thiel, who makes Lucifer blush, received red-carpet treatment at a VIP preview of the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry at

Artistic attempts to contend with technology’s ever-tightening grip on our attention, institutions, and social abilities too often take the form of post-human fever dreams of the Black Mirror school — works that, while intended to be critical, easily devolve into discursive, cyborg-filled feedback loops. Julio Torres and Martine Gutierrez’s Marina, which premiered at Manhattan’s Little Island last week as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial program, opts for a radically

Richard Dadd, "Bacchanalian Scene" (1862) (image public domain US CC0 via Wikimedia Commons)In English painter Richard Dadd’s “The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke” (1855–64), the ghostly, gray faces of well-dressed Victorians nestle among human-size dandelions and shrubs, partially obscuring a shrouded figure raising an axe overhead. The eerie work was painted at Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security psychiatric institution where Dadd was confined after hi

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — I first saw Catherine Murphy’s work at the now-defunct Xavier Fourcade gallery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 1980, and I have admired it ever since. Her career began when her paintings were included in the 1972 Annual Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art (a precursor to the Biennial). Since then, Murphy has characterized herself as an “observational painter” who bases her work on what she sees. Throughout her career, ho

The British Museum hosted Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel for a VIP viewing of the Bayeux tapestry on August 18, drawing concerns among staff, per a report from the Guardian. The museum declined to comment on the matter in an email to Hyperallergic, and it remains unclear if Thiel was part of a larger group privileged with viewing the 11th-century tapestry before its coveted public exhibition starting September 10.Thiel's VIP visit puzzled some, as the billionaire has never donated to the B

The British fashion designer John Galliano has withdrawn his upcoming exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, set to run concurrently with the 2027 Met Gala, after intense criticism of his past racist behavior. A French court convicted Galliano of antisemitic and anti-Asian hate speech directed at a French couple in February 2011, and a barrage of antisemitic slurs against a woman in October of the same year. He was fined a total of €6,000 ($6,962). A vide

As an editor, occasionally a pitch lands in your inbox that makes your heart rate quicken. That’s what I felt when artist and writer Lia Strasser emailed me a few weeks ago, attaching a very personal and moving essay about her relationship to the story of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. You may be familiar with the critique that Krasner’s oeuvre has been overshadowed by that of her husband — the alpha male, the household name, the frankly abusive spouse. When Strasser first

From a high platform in the Broadway Junction station, I see a forlorn cloud hovering over the rooftops of East Brooklyn. The sky around it is perfectly clear. The next morning, I find it still standing in the same spot, but it’s faded, famished. That’s how bad things have gotten: The loneliness epidemic has now reached the clouds. Espresso in Williamsburg, watermelon juice in Ditmas Park, writing session in Ridgewood, soccer camp in Bed-Stuy. At a street corner, a mural by @b

Two visitors smashed a display case and made off with a platinum and diamond necklace at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna yesterday afternoon, August 27. Per the Viennese daily newspaper Der Standard, the Van Cleef & Arpels necklace was last appraised at $4.6 million by Sotheby's. It was displayed as part of Glanzstücke, an ongoing exhibition featuring over 500 works gathered from the museum's design collection and the French luxury jewelry house. The 200-karat, 673-

BRUGES, Belgium — With its cobblestone streets, glossy green canals, and stepped gable townhouses, Bruges has the self-contained and unchanging quality of a scene in a snow globe. Bigger Picture: Connected worlds of Bruges 900-1550 seeks to bust this myth, demonstrating the extent of the city’s historical connection with the rest of the world. The inaugural exhibition of BRUSK — “BRU” for Bruges and “SK” for schone kunsten (“fine art&#x201D