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Six visual artists and photographers — Matt Black, Garrett Bradley, Jeremy Frey, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and Gala Porras-Kim — are among the 22 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Fellowship.

Six Artists Win MacArthur “Genius” Grants

Jeremy Frey and Gala Porras-Kim are among this year’s fellows, who receive an $800,000 award.

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The clock doesn’t tick the same way for everyone. Until art institutions admit that, we’ll keep mistaking the optics of equity for the real thing.

When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging”

If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.

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Calling all ghouls, ghosts, and gallerinas — this Halloween, Hyperallergic is teaming up with our friends at the Francis Kite Club in NYC to host an art-inspired costume party.

Get Artsy With Your Costumes for Hyperallergic’s Halloween Party

Join us for spooky cocktails, a fun costume competition, and more at the Francis Kite Club.

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The photographer behind the tremendously popular photo series “Humans of New York” has spent most of his savings from the last 15 years on his latest project: a monumental installation at Grand Central Terminal.

Humans of New York Takes Over Grand Central

A monumental project by the artist behind the wildly popular series is now on view at the Manhattan train station, both above and below ground.

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The truth about Frederick Baker’s life under enslavement was shrouded in a whitewashed history perpetuated by local historians in Mississippi. New research on a rare pre-Emancipation artwork has unearthed his story, dispelling false narratives that dignified the reputations of his enslavers.

Portrait of Enslaved Man Dispels Years of Falsehoods

The truth of Frederick Baker’s life was long obscured by a whitewashed history perpetuated by the Longwood mansion in Mississippi, new research says.

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George Morrison’s heavily impastoed surfaces set him apart from his New York contemporaries, many of whom were exploring paint as a liquid medium to be poured (Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler) or applied in thin washes so the hand is not evident (Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko).

George Morrison Painted a Different Picture of Abstract Expressionism

The Ojibwe artist was active in New York's midcentury art scene and embraced by fellow Abstract Expressionists, yet he’s rarely in canonical histories today.

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A new retrospective captures artist June Leaf’s restless experimentation across media and the carnivalesque playfulness of her works.

The Explosive Ecstasy of June Leaf

A retrospective leaves you feeling as though you have experienced a life as well as a body of work.

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“There was no such thing as a bad painting or drawing. I think that was an incredible gift from both my parents, and gave us a lot of freedom to just develop into the artists that we are.” —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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The Oregon Republican Party posted (and subsequently deleted) an image that misleadingly depicted South American riot police in a social media post about Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Portland.

Oregon Republicans Caught Posting Misleading Protest Image

The group deleted the photo, which depicted South American riot police.

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Nour Jaouda turns a gallery’s entrance into a threshold where history, memory, and landscape are made, mourned, and ever-returning.

Tapestries That Contain the World

Nour Jaouda creates a patchwork space where history, memory, and landscape are made, mourned, and ever-returning.

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Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner Gallery's UK locations reported a nearly 90% decline in pre-tax profits. The news coincides with a rumored art market downturn marked by a global decline in public auction sales and a slew of US gallery closures.

Hauser and Zwirner’s UK Galleries Report Nearly 90% Drop in Earnings

The news of the dip in profits, reported in public financial filings, comes amid a rumored global art market downturn.

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Ojibwe artist George Morrison brings out another side of Abstract Expressionism at The Met, Susan Rothenberg brings her subjects to the brink of abstraction at Hauser & Wirth, Larry Bell’s minimalist cubes in Madison Square Park, and more to see this week in New York City.

Five New York City Art Shows That We Love Right Now

From George Morrison to June Leaf, the city is alive with wonderful abstract and carnivalesque art.

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Artist Odili Donald Odita is suing Jack Shainman Gallery for wrongfully retaining over $1 million worth of artwork as it “failed to adequately protect and sell” his paintings — a claim that fundamentally challenges the gallery system.

Artist Odili Donald Odita Sues Jack Shainman Gallery

The painter accuses the gallery of retaining over $1M worth of artworks in a claim that challenges models at the heart of the artist-dealer relationship.

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A book of essays and paintings that'll give you a friend-crush on the author/painter duo who created it, the life and work of an early 20th-century Japanese photographer in a small western town, and more artful reading recommendations in our fall book list.

12 Art Books to Read This Fall

A Louise Bourgeois biography, Joe Sacco’s latest graphic investigation, a Wifredo Lam catalog, a study of diasporic Nigerian women artists, and more.

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“[AI is] not a good knockoff. The ultimate goal is never to be as good as the art — the goal is to be good enough to get on the page, get the consumer to use it, and get rid of the worker.” —Molly Crabapple, artist

Can Artists Stop the AI Slop Machine?

A recent workshop in Manhattan's Lower East Side challenged the notion that the takeover of machine learning is inevitable.

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Walter Richard Sickert — an oddball of an artist — didn’t go in for glamour or flattery. Imagine the polar opposite of John Singer Sargent. Sickert’s art can be quite grubby or ugly or humdrum.

Life’s Hidden Dramas in the Art of Walter Sickert

Sickert didn’t go in for glamour or flattery and the subjects of many of his best works are things seen off to the side, a bit inconsequential.

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Sister Corita Kent juggled duties as an art teacher, Roman Catholic nun, left-wing advocate, and artist — much to the dismay of Los Angeles’s conservative Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, who frequently clashed with her over her activist artwork and reform beliefs.

Sister Corita Kent Found the Sacred in the Profane

An installation of the artist’s never-before-seen photographs accumulates meaning through association rather than argument.

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The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has dissolved a department for educational programming and laid off nine employees, citing financial challenges.

Kentucky’s Speed Museum Axes Education Department

Nine employees were laid off as a result of the department’s dissolution, attributed to a “challenging financial period.”

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City workers removed a group of 1998 mosaics honoring the two World’s Fairs in Queens after “significant deterioration” from weather-related factors.

NYC Removes World’s Fairs Mosaics, a Slice of Queens Art History

The in-ground artworks in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, which referenced Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol, had suffered from weather-related deterioration, officials said.

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“When I was a kid, I went to school and instead of saying goodbye, my mother would say, ‘Win.’ I was like, ‘Win, what?’ But there’s always a contest. I didn’t want to be involved.” —Laurie Anderson, musician and artist

Laurie Anderson Isn’t Playing Games

In the artist’s studio, we played her 1995 Puppet Motel on a blue iBook G3 and talked about technology, cyberspace, and abstraction.

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“If there is any single thread in the Hammer Museum’s biennial, it is historical,” says curator Essence Harden, countering the stereotype of Los Angeles as a place that forgets its past. “It is about histories.”

Five Artists Share Their Work in This Year’s Made in LA Biennial

Ahead of the opening at the Hammer Museum, Hyperallergic spoke to participants whose practices embrace the show’s threads of history and dissonance.

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In the midst of national turmoil in France, a reenactment of “Divisor” (1968) — one of avant-garde artist Lygia Pape’s most iconic participatory performances — brought hundreds of people to the streets of Paris to chase the physical feeling of collectivity.

Lygia Pape Wants You to Participate

Pape’s work endures because it makes us feel collectivity as a physical condition rather than a concept.

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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has shuttered its doors and ceased all programming amid the ongoing government shutdown, which began last Monday, September 29.

National Gallery of Art Closes Amid Government Shutdown

The museum is among the federally funded organizations affected by the impasse as Democrats and Republicans spar over healthcare.

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One of the first exhibitions to be terminated as a result of Trump’s attacks on DEI has found a new home at the Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University School of Art.

An Exhibition Axed Under Trump’s DEI Ban Finds a New Home

Before the Americas, a show of African-American, Afro-Latino, and Caribbean artists, was among the first to lose funding amid the president’s crackdown.

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Hundreds of artists submitted designs to Mamdani’s 36-hour “I Registered to Vote for Zohran” sticker contest. They focused on quintessential New York City imagery like public buses, street signs, subways, and pigeons.

NYC Artist and Educator Wins Zohran Mamdani Sticker Contest

Nishan Patel’s design depicts a bodega storefront with a furry feline in the window, a tender homage to the beloved neighborhood businesses.

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