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Titanic Expedition Uncovers Long-Lost Statue of a Woman
A voyage to the famous shipwreck pinpointed the location of a two-foot-tall bronze replica of the Louvre Museum’s “Diana of Versailles,” last photographed in 1986.
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Second Man Sentenced for Forging Anishinaabe Artist’s Paintings
Eight people have been charged for forging and selling thousands of works by the late artist Norval Morrisseau, including his own nephew.
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MoMA Director Glenn Lowry Steps Down After 30 Years
His time at the helm of the New York museum is marked by protests against board members’ ties to fossil fuels, military violence, and mass incarceration.
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Presidential Debate Memes So We Can Laugh to Keep From Crying
We rounded up the best of the best for all you pet-eating, illegal trans aliens out there.
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Man Dies After Fall From Glasgow Museum Balcony
The Gallery of Modern Art was shuttered for the remainder of the day.
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NYC AIDS Memorial Celebrates David Wojnarowicz’s 70th Birthday
A remembrance event on Saturday night, September 14, will include readings and a candlelit procession to the LGBTQ Memorial at Hudson River Park.
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Amy Sherald Survey to Travel to DC’s National Portrait Gallery Next Year
With over 40 paintings, Sherald’s largest survey to date will mark the first solo show of a Black contemporary artist at the DC institution.
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Tehran Art Museum Reports 30 Missing Paintings
The artworks’ whereabouts remain unknown after the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum lent them in July.
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Michigan State University Accused of Censoring Pro-Palestine Artwork
The university also canceled a major opening event, raising outcry among artists and curators.
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Second Man Buried Under Notre Dame Identified as French Poet
Two years after his sarcophagus was discovered, archaeologists identified the remains of a 16th-century aristocratic poet credited with popularizing French-language sonnets.
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Getty Apologizes After Exhibition Kick-off Event Injures Spectators
The event to kick off the museum’s PST Art: Art & Science Collide initiative struck guests with falling debris.
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A Monument to Trans and Nonbinary Life Graces Trafalgar Square
The prismatic artwork by Teresa Margolles includes plaster cast faces of 726 people from Mexico City, Ciudad Juárez, and London.
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Racist Cartoon of Rashida Tlaib Draws Condemnation
Henry Payne’s comic for the National Review portrays the Palestinian-American congresswoman as the owner of a detonated pager.
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Low Morale and High Attrition Plague Wexner Center for the Arts
Hyperallergic spoke to current and former workers who alleged staff mistreatment and impulsive decision-making by the museum’s director.
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Richard Mayhew, Painter of “Mindscapes,” Dies at 100
Mayhew examined place, identity, emotion, and connections to the natural world in his vibrant, abstract artworks.
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Hurricane Helene Obliterates Asheville’s River Arts District
The city and its artists were hard-hit by the storm that tore a deadly path of destruction from Florida through inland Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.
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Wendy Red Star and Ebony G. Patterson Among 2024 MacArthur Fellows
Tony Cokes and Justin Vivian Bond also won the no-strings-attached $800,000 grant.
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Mysterious Nude Effigy of Trump Appears in Las Vegas
The massive sculpture was deplored by the Republican party and was taken down less than a week before it was ordered to be removed.
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Pesto the Penguin Waddles Into the Art History Canon
The bumbling penguin has captured the hearts of millions on the internet and spawned a wealth of fan art and illustrations.
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Eric Adams Aide Sought China-Themed Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum
A new report details how Winnie Greco asked the museum to host a show about Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen — with a month-long turnaround time.
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The Viral Performance Artist Who Takes the Form of Trash
Shoji Yamasaki imitates plastic bags and other detritus moving in the breeze in his entrancing choreography series Littered Mvmnts.
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Middle Schooler Wins “I Voted” Sticker Contest With Unhinged Werewolf Design
Riffing on the “Wolf Ripping Shirt” meme, the 12-year-old artist’s entry is one of nine designs that will be made into stickers and distributed to voters next month.
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Museum Worker Throws Art in the Trash by Mistake
Artist Alexandre Lavet's aluminum replicas of beer cans at the LAM Museum in Lisse were a little too realistic.
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Gaza Photo Pasted on Picasso Painting at UK’s National Gallery
Activists stuck the image of a Palestinian mother and child to the protective glass over "Motherhood" (1901) and called for an arms embargo on Israel.
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Charli XCX Says She Chose Brat Cover Art to “Save Money”
The pop star revealed the real reason for the iconic design.
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What Makes a Successful Museum Land Acknowledgment?
Some Indigenous scholars have come to regard the standard land acknowledgment as “hollow” and “not enough.”
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“The Starry Night” Follows Laws of Physics That Weren’t Discovered Yet
Art lovers have long known that the Dutch painter saw the night sky like nobody else — and now scientists know it, too.
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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker Named President of National Gallery of Art
Walker has been credited with developing a major art acquisition fund for the DC museum, where he has been a trustee since 2019.
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Mexican Museum Removes Derogatory Art About Sex Workers
Ana Gallardo’s mural at MUAC included offensive descriptions and slurs directed at a shelter for older former sex workers in Mexico City.
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When Wildlife Imitates Art
See the images that won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award and the art historical references they remind us of.
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75+ Artists Take Over Manhattan’s 14th Street
The Art in Odd Places outdoor festival is back for its 19th iteration this weekend with a focus on empathy and care.
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Armenia’s Oldest Known Church Excavated in Ancient City
Researchers describe it as “sensational evidence for early Christianity in Armenia.”
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Palestinian Artist Mahasen Al-Khatib Killed in Israeli Airstrike on Gaza
The 32-year-old digital illustrator, who had amassed a following on social media, was among dozens of people killed at the Jabalia refugee camp.
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Tompkins Square Dog Parade Falls Victim to Its Popularity
Coiffed canines and their decked-out humans took to the streets of Manhattan for a chaotic yet celebratory iteration of the beloved annual parade, which may be on its last leg.
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Brooklyn Nonprofit Apologizes for Removing Palestinian-American Artist’s Work
UrbanGlass excluded Phil Garip's art from a staff exhibition last March over its inclusion of the phrase "from the river to the sea."
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Why Is There a Defunct Crane in Madison Square Park?
Nicole Eisenman’s new public artwork has everything to do with land use decisions and urban development in New York City.
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Israel Bombs Ancient World Heritage Site in Lebanon
Over a dozen injuries and significant damages have been reported in Tyre since Israeli airstrikes began in the coastal city earlier this week.
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Sculpture of a Turd on Nancy Pelosi’s Desk Appears on National Mall
"This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021, to loot, urinate, and defecate,” reads a plaque.
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New Dwyane Wade Statue Looks Like Anyone Except Dwyane Wade
Memes draw comparisons to The Matrix, Kelsey Grammer, and seemingly everyone except Miami Heat’s star player.
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Studio Museum in Harlem Receives $10M From Ford Foundation
The gift will permanently endow the New York institution’s director and chief curator role, held by Thelma Golden for nearly two decades.
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Neo-Nazi Tiki Torch “Monument” to Trump Emerges in DC
The apparently satirical artwork follows the appearance of a mysterious sculpture of a turd on Nancy Pelosi’s desk last week.
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New Documentary Gives a Voice to Benin’s Looted Treasures
Mati Diop's Dahomey centers on the repatriation of 26 stolen Beninese objects and how it could shape the African country’s future.
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“Gay Halloween” Meme Enters the Queer Canon
From Chappell Roan references to hyper-specific camp and pop-culture moments, the phenomenon is a reprieve from the world of bunny ears and angel halos.
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New York City’s Art Show Gets Up-Close and Personal
Hyperrealism and small-scale painting dominate at the Art Dealers Association of America’s annual fair.
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Carrie Mae Weems Kitchen Table Photos Star in Kamala Harris Ad
The iconic images from Weems’s 1990 series appear in a recent video advertisement airing in key battleground states.
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Leonora Carrington’s Surrealist Cat Sculpture Could Fetch $7M
Who is this diva? Why, it's “La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman),” the star of Sotheby’s Modern Evening Sale in New York.
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In Silent Action, Activists Protest Keffiyeh Ban at Noguchi Museum Gala
Masked activists greeted benefit attendees as messages like “Culture Banned Here” were projected on the institution’s facade.
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British Painter Sarah Cunningham Dies at 31
Cunningham rose to prominence with her large-scale oil landscapes that walk the line between the natural world and entropic abstraction.
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Artist Sabina Khorramdel Found Dead in Hamptons Hotel
A suspect, Thomas Gannon, confessed to the murder in a text message to a family member before ending his own life.
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Could One of These Images Be the Next Iconic Windows Wallpaper?
Seven photographers submitted landscape shots in the spirit of the original "Bliss" background.
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