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The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) presents Reassembly: the Class of 2027 Thesis Exhibition, which brings the culminating work of 3rd-year MFA candidates to the Bard College main campus in Annendale-on-Hudson, NY, and the newly-acquired Massena Exhibition Center in Barrytown, NY.  Reassembly will begin with an evening of performances at Olin Hall on the Bard College campus at 7pm on Friday, July 10th. The exhibition’s opening reception at Massena

Minnesota Street Project Foundation presents the 2026 San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF), taking place July 23–26, marking 10 years since the inaugural fair in 2016. Highly anticipated and one of the largest, free, annual Bay Area arts events, SFABF celebrates art publishing and print culture by bringing together independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world. Since its establishment 10 years prior, SFABF continues to serve as a platfor

Akira Ikezoe’s schematic paintings, on view in the Whitney Biennial and Greater New York, are unmistakably his. Teeming with frogs, robots, and bears caught up in flowcharts of labor and industry, their dark humor resonates deeply with our current moment. Curator Sofia Thiệu D'Amico met the artist at his studio to discuss environmental catastrophe, parenthood, his childhood in Japan, and more.More, as always, including John Yau on Charles Seliger’s intricate cellular vi

Akira Ikezoe welcomes me into his studio wearing a long-sleeve t-shirt made by the Cevallos Brothers, with whom he was recently featured in the Greater New York survey at MoMA PS1. That is just one of several large-scale exhibitions and international biennials Ikezoe has participated in over the last few years, including the Sharjah Biennial last year and this year’s Whitney Biennial. As a result, his studio is sparse, save for a few paintings in progress.Ikezoe offers me tea as we recall

At age 19, Charles Seliger received his first solo show at Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery The Art of This Century in 1945, and was one of the youngest artists associated with the emergence of Abstract Expressionism. However, unlike most painters in this nascent movement, he never worked on a large scale, nor did he become a gestural or geometric painter. Devoted to nature and Surrealist automatism, he remained a maverick. That independence explains why he is seldom included in surveys of Abst

Welcome to the 344th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Arghavan Khosravi pulls from Persian miniature traditions to create surreal assemblages of paint, canvas, and wood.Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.Arghavan Khosravi, Stamford, ConnecticutHow long have you been

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, "I See Red: Going Forward, Looking Back" (1996) (© Estate of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, courtesy the estate and Garth Greenan Gallery)In the aftermath of the Newark Rebellion of 1967, which saw six days of police brutality at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, nontraditional arts spaces began to crop up around the city. Just over a decade after the 1972 opening of Newark's first Black-owned gallery, Aard Studio Gallery, and on the heels of the B

This holiday weekend is a strange one. As heat waves wash over much of the United States, so do mixed feelings toward the nation’s 250th birthday today, punctuated by rays of hope — like the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold birthright citizenship this week. Here at Hyperallergic, we’ve been embracing moments of possibility and discovery. John Yau’s review of a group of little-known works by Phillip Guston — influenced in part by his wife, poet Musa McK

This Fourth of July weekend, we’re sticking to the essentials: water, sunscreen, and art. Amid an avalanche of propaganda on the United States's 250th anniversary, critic Aruna D’Souza offers an illuminating art history of the Statue of Liberty. Artists from Faith Ringgold to Claes Oldenburg, she explains, have long wielded the monument as a tool of protest and creative expression — a particularly potent reminder as Trump strives to stifle them completely.Also today, Ed

Last July, Amy Sherald announced that she was canceling the National Portrait Gallery stop of her solo exhibition American Sublime because of concerns that the Smithsonian Institution had attempted to censor her painting of a Black trans woman, Arewà Basit, posing as the Statue of Liberty.Lindsey Halligan, a special assistant to President Donald Trump, responded to Sherald’s decision with satisfaction. “The Statue of Liberty is not an abstract canvas for political expression &

By the standards of geological epochs, Kaaterskill Falls in Upstate New York is positively youthful. Generated by melting glacial runoff eroding the sandstone and shale at the foot of the Catskills’ South Mountain during the middle Pleistocene — a spritely 130,000 years ago — Kaaterskill is a spectacular two-stage waterfall that seems to almost bounce down its 260-foot (~79-meter) height. Two centuries ago, that cascading waterfall would inspire a 25-year-old engraver born i

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.The Swiss Institute's New HomeThe Swiss Institute in New York City is acquiring a new permanent home at 250 Bowery, just across the street from the freshly renovated New Museum. The organization tapped architectural firm Johnston Marklee to renovate the space, which will open next spring with The Environment, a group exhibition ins

Lina Ávila, "Abrazo mundi," (2020) (image courtesy TODOS x VENEZUELA) Following the devastating earthquakes that hit Venezuela on June 24, leaving thousands dead or injured, tens of thousands missing, and countless families displaced, the nation has seen an outpouring of help. On the ground, locals move rubble by hand to find survivors. Abroad, the Venezuelan diaspora, caught between feeling helpless and relentless, turned to networks and contacts, pooling donations to send home.I

With July 4 and its attendant propaganda on the horizon, I'm turning to essays that offer the critical, hopeful perspectives we need on American art and culture. Musician Nate Wooley takes a deep dive into the ever-evolving practice of Diné artist and composer Raven Chacon for the New York Review of Books:Much of the recent writing about Chacon has rightfully foregrounded his critique of America’s colonial history and its abuses against Indigenous people. This project is central

After 11 years in business, the contemporary art gallery Lyles & King announced its closure today, July 2, in a social media post thanking its artists and supporters. The gallery mounted 118 exhibitions throughout its run, bookending its programming this June with a solo show of gouache and pencil works by Jessie Makinson and a group exhibition of new work by Cato Ouyang, Fernanda Galvão, and Ren Light Pan.“I founded Lyles & King in May 2015, with a belief in the importance o

Found auto rubber; bicycle pedals and chains: You may not see it at first glance, but these are the building blocks of Kim Dacres's dazzlingly meticulous sculptures. The New York native braids bike tire inner tubes and douses her assemblages in industrial spray paint, creating art that “smells like home, like the city, like places I’m going.” On the occasion of Dacres's current solo exhibition at Charles Moffet Gallery, writer Daria Simone Harper talks to the artis

As Washington, DC, gears up for massive celebrations for America’s 250th birthday, artists and institutions are exploring and exploding the very concept of American aesthetics — and what American art can and should achieve. While Trump attempts to reshape DC in his image, including re-erecting a monument to an enslaver in Freedom Plaza, the city feels like the epicenter of an urgent artistic reckoning. From Faith Ringgold’s bloody flag painting at the National Gallery of Art

For Kim Dacres, every Tuesday morning unfolds in the same way. Each week, the native New Yorker and West Harlem resident journeys through her beloved neighborhood, scavenging for the materials that form the bedrock of her artistic practice: tires and bicycle parts. Last month, I joined the artist for what she calls “Tire Tuesday,” a ritual of collecting rubber that she transforms into busts and sculptures in tribute to her community. At our first stop, Bolt Bike Shop on Frederick D

BASEL — Ahead of Art Basel’s flagship fair this week, the Financial Times ran a headline: “Only the spectacular will do.” The statement underscores the immense pressure on galleries at the Swiss art fair, running June 18 to 21, to stand out in a volatile market with high prices and reportedly fewer buyers. The event opened within weeks of Pace Gallery’s massive downsizing and claims that the market was “broken”; meanwhile, among the exhibitor

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.David Hockney (1937–2026)British painter who made the everyday otherworldlyBest known for paintings that imbued the everyday with an otherworldly stillness, psychologically precise portraits, and crystalline pool scenes, Hockney also explored printmaking, photography — even stage design for ballet and opera — across his prolific career of more than half a cent