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Artist Xin Wang’s vision is simultaneously utopian and anarchic, erotic and dissipating, blooming with life and haunted.
A Trip Through Xin Wang’s Hallucinatory World
Her vision is simultaneously utopian and anarchic, erotic and dissipating, blooming with life and haunted.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Artist Xin Wang’s vision is simultaneously utopian and anarchic, erotic and dissipating, blooming with life and haunted.
Gay wool from gay sheep? In a publicity holy grail, the queer hookup app Grindr debuted a knitwear collection by celebrity designer Michael Schmidt last week. The textiles were created with wool culled from the world’s “first flock of gay sheep” in Germany.
Gay Sheep Make Their High Fashion Debut in NYC
I Wool Survive featured pieces made with wool from the world’s “first flock of gay sheep.”
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November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Gay wool from gay sheep? In a publicity holy grail, the queer hookup app Grindr debuted a knitwear collection by celebrity designer Michael Schmidt last week. The textiles were created with wool culled from the world’s “first flock of gay sheep” in Germany.
Mosaic artists filling potholes, Indian mosques demolished by Hindu fascists, rediscovered photos of Iraqi Yazidi communities in the 1930s, and more in this week’s Required Reading.
Required Reading
This week: pothole mosaics, mosque demolitions in India, Yazidi cultural reclamation, remembering Alice Wong, vocal fry, “American Gothic” drag, and much more.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Mosaic artists filling potholes, Indian mosques demolished by Hindu fascists, rediscovered photos of Iraqi Yazidi communities in the 1930s, and more in this week’s Required Reading.
“I feel such hope that finally we can have a city that is meant to make life a bit easier for working people instead of something that’s just about squeezing and erasing us.” —Molly Crabapple, artist
Molly Crabapple Is Savoring Zohran’s Win
“We don’t have enough examples of winning, so it’s really important to taste the sweetness when we do,” the artist and activist told Hyperallergic.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“I feel such hope that finally we can have a city that is meant to make life a bit easier for working people instead of something that’s just about squeezing and erasing us.” —Molly Crabapple, artist
To help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves,” Nayland Blake has a few (or 100) thoughts. Assignments include installing shelves on the street and making a sculpture that “produces the pleasure of being ignored.”
100 Assignments From Nayland Blake
While these assignments will not turn someone else into me, they will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
To help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves,” Nayland Blake has a few (or 100) thoughts. Assignments include installing shelves on the street and making a sculpture that “produces the pleasure of being ignored.”
In this week’s A View From the Easel, artists run laboratories of light and speak to the glass sculptures surrounding them.
A View From the Easel
“The darkness surrounding my studio has its own magic.”
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November 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
In this week’s A View From the Easel, artists run laboratories of light and speak to the glass sculptures surrounding them.
At this year’s DOC NYC film festival, you might learn that Santacon has its roots in the West Coast arts scene, watch a tribute to the “godfather of Asian-American media,” and attempt to understand the woman who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975.
Drunk Santas, Yoko Ono, and Other Joys of DOC NYC
From the disruptive nonsense of Santacon to Kwame Brathwaite’s “Black is Beautiful” movement, here’s what to see or stream.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
At this year’s DOC NYC film festival, you might learn that Santacon has its roots in the West Coast arts scene, watch a tribute to the “godfather of Asian-American media,” and attempt to understand the woman who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975.
How did we get here? Artists who refuse to remain silent over the country’s dark turn offer a personal take.
How Did We Get Here?
We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is considered a threat to society.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
How did we get here? Artists who refuse to remain silent over the country’s dark turn offer a personal take.
IUDs, nursing bras, baby bottles, strollers, and snot suckers are among the items highlighted at the Museum of Art and Design. They illuminate how design shapes diverse experiences of parenthood, from navigating fertility and conception to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life.
A Good, Bad, and Ugly History of Parenting Gadgets
Designing Motherhood illuminates how design shapes diverse experiences of parenthood, from navigating fertility and conception to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
IUDs, nursing bras, baby bottles, strollers, and snot suckers are among the items highlighted at the Museum of Art and Design. They illuminate how design shapes diverse experiences of parenthood, from navigating fertility and conception to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life.
This week, In Memoriam honors Bill Ivey, former head of the National Endowment for the Arts; Guy Cogeval, former president of the Musée d’Orsay; James Stevens Curl, British architectural historian of death; and more.
Remembering Bill Ivey, Guy Cogeval, and Marilyn A. Zeitlin
This week, we honor artists, museum directors, politicians who championed art, and others.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This week, In Memoriam honors Bill Ivey, former head of the National Endowment for the Arts; Guy Cogeval, former president of the Musée d’Orsay; James Stevens Curl, British architectural historian of death; and more.
“No one could have guessed that another Louise Bourgeois retrospective would be needed in 2017 — to account for the aesthetic breakthroughs of old age.” —Susan Gubar, feminist scholar and literary critic
The Women Artists Who Found Freedom in Old Age
The artists profiled in Grand Finales refused to consign themselves to what the author calls “Little-Old-Lady-Land,” and opted to keep searching, pushing, and trying new things.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“No one could have guessed that another Louise Bourgeois retrospective would be needed in 2017 — to account for the aesthetic breakthroughs of old age.” —Susan Gubar, feminist scholar and literary critic
All of Stan Douglas’s artwork centers on reconstructing historical moments or conjuring those that might have been. Intentional awkwardness or sly references alert viewers that these are indeed artistic creations and not the “real” thing.
Stan Douglas Conjures Histories That Might Have Been
Through his narrative art, Douglas reminds us that every story contains the potential for history to take another course.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
All of Stan Douglas’s artwork centers on reconstructing historical moments or conjuring those that might have been. Intentional awkwardness or sly references alert viewers that these are indeed artistic creations and not the “real” thing.
How do you start creating a world? It’s a question Los Angeles-based artist Harmonia Rosales had to ask herself while crafting “Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic” (2025), a superbly fantastical book.
Harmonia Rosales Remixes the African Diasporic Pantheon
“I decided to write how the Greeks wrote, as if Yorubaland were the whole world,” the artist told Hyperallergic in an interview about her new book.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
How do you start creating a world? It’s a question Los Angeles-based artist Harmonia Rosales had to ask herself while crafting “Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic” (2025), a superbly fantastical book.
In 1958, Black art was not being shown in Detroit’s major institutions. Painter Harold Neal and his contemporaries started a collective of Black artists who created their own opportunities, marking the unofficial beginning of the city’s own Black arts movement.
How Detroit Became a Hub for Black Art
A decade before the mainstream Black Arts Movement, Detroit underwent a transformation of its own, driven by Black artists who recognized a need for opportunities and community.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
In 1958, Black art was not being shown in Detroit’s major institutions. Painter Harold Neal and his contemporaries started a collective of Black artists who created their own opportunities, marking the unofficial beginning of the city’s own Black arts movement.
Changes have been coming to the Philadelphia Art Museum as quickly as the leaves have fallen this month, most recently with the appointment of Daniel H. Weiss as new director, less than a month after the highly publicized ousting of former director Sasha Suda.
Former Met President Daniel Weiss to Lead Philadelphia Art Museum
The news comes on the heels of a lawsuit by former director Sasha Suda, who accused the institution of wrongful termination.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Changes have been coming to the Philadelphia Art Museum as quickly as the leaves have fallen this month, most recently with the appointment of Daniel H. Weiss as new director, less than a month after the highly publicized ousting of former director Sasha Suda.
One of Frida Kahlo’s most vulnerable and poignant self-portraits sold for $54.7 million, overtaking a Georgia O’Keeffe painting as the most expensive work by a woman artist ever sold at auction.
Frida Kahlo Becomes Most Expensive Woman Artist at Auction
“El sueño (La cama)” (1940), a surreal rumination on dreams, nightmares, and the afterlife, sold for $54.7M at Sotheby's.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
One of Frida Kahlo’s most vulnerable and poignant self-portraits sold for $54.7 million, overtaking a Georgia O’Keeffe painting as the most expensive work by a woman artist ever sold at auction.
Participating in Fall of Freedom is one way artist Kris Grey has chosen to respond to the rise of authoritarianism. “A core ethos of the project,” Grey writes, “is the belief that creativity, in and of itself, is a practice of resistance.”
Why I Joined the Artists Behind Fall of Freedom
What began as a conversation among a handful of artists has grown into a decentralized creative action, spanning more than 600 events across the country.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Participating in Fall of Freedom is one way artist Kris Grey has chosen to respond to the rise of authoritarianism. “A core ethos of the project,” Grey writes, “is the belief that creativity, in and of itself, is a practice of resistance.”
Maurizio Cattelan’s solid gold toilet sold to Ripley’s Believe It or Not! The British pop musician Robbie Williams is venturing into furniture design! IFPDA changes its name but keeps its unwieldy acronym! And more surprising, funny art world news in this week’s Art Movements.
Art Movements: Why, Maurizio Cattelan, Why?
In this week’s art news, 15 women artists over 40 get their due, Robbie Williams tries furniture design, and more.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Maurizio Cattelan’s solid gold toilet sold to Ripley’s Believe It or Not! The British pop musician Robbie Williams is venturing into furniture design! IFPDA changes its name but keeps its unwieldy acronym! And more surprising, funny art world news in this week’s Art Movements.
Where art history is a subjective observer of the different modes of pictorial representation, the Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David was on an active quest for the representational form that best expresses the idea of “truth.”
Jacques-Louis David Knew That Style Is Political
Where art history is a subjective observer, he was on an active quest for the representational form for the “truth.”
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November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Where art history is a subjective observer of the different modes of pictorial representation, the Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David was on an active quest for the representational form that best expresses the idea of “truth.”
Monet’s months in Venice at the Brooklyn Museum, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s women who care for each other, a group exhibition that focuses on the innermost parts of our bodies, and more to see this week in New York City.
New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
Some of our favorite exhibitions, including those by Kader Attia and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, address intimacy and healing, but we're also enjoying Monet.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Monet’s months in Venice at the Brooklyn Museum, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s women who care for each other, a group exhibition that focuses on the innermost parts of our bodies, and more to see this week in New York City.
Pyaari Azaadi’s artistic practice calls us to bear the weight of survivorship and to find, beneath its burdens, the shimmering possibility of new allies.
Pyaari Azaadi’s Epic Mission to Mend the World
Our relationship as artist and critic deepened in a profoundly unexpected way as we faced darkness together.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Pyaari Azaadi’s artistic practice calls us to bear the weight of survivorship and to find, beneath its burdens, the shimmering possibility of new allies.
The Phillips Collection is selling treasured paintings: “They are integral to the character of the museum,” said Liza Phillips, granddaughter of the museum’s founders. “They belong to the public. They are now probably going into private hands. It’s just a shame.”
Why Is DC’s Phillips Collection Selling Off Its Masterpieces?
The museum’s decision to deaccession works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and more has come under public scrutiny.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The Phillips Collection is selling treasured paintings: “They are integral to the character of the museum,” said Liza Phillips, granddaughter of the museum’s founders. “They belong to the public. They are now probably going into private hands. It’s just a shame.”
“Monet and Venice” at the Brooklyn Museum is the kind of blockbuster exhibition that has everything going for it. Nothing justifies celebrating this sliver of his oeuvre more than the paintings themselves.
Drowning in the Light of Monet’s Venice
Venice turned out to be the ideal environment for the artist to explore the relationship between water and light that long preoccupied him.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“Monet and Venice” at the Brooklyn Museum is the kind of blockbuster exhibition that has everything going for it. Nothing justifies celebrating this sliver of his oeuvre more than the paintings themselves.
“Weaving isn’t just an art form; it carries philosophy, oral history, and spirituality. When shared without context, it risks losing its sacredness.” —Diné weaver and instructor Venancio Aragón
Diné Weaver Venancio Aragón Dyes Wool With Kool-Aid
The Diné weaver and teacher reimagines pre-trading-post-era weaving techniques, continually coloring his practice with new aesthetic and material horizons.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“Weaving isn’t just an art form; it carries philosophy, oral history, and spirituality. When shared without context, it risks losing its sacredness.” —Diné weaver and instructor Venancio Aragón
To paraphrase Marx, history first begins as tragedy and then ends as farce. From writer Ed Simon’s perspective, there’s nothing tragic in Duchamp’s “Fountain,” but there is something farcical in Maurizio Cattelan’s functional, solid 18-carat gold toilet that sold for $12.1 million.
Maurizio Cattelan Is No Duchamp
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
To paraphrase Marx, history first begins as tragedy and then ends as farce. From writer Ed Simon’s perspective, there’s nothing tragic in Duchamp’s “Fountain,” but there is something farcical in Maurizio Cattelan’s functional, solid 18-carat gold toilet that sold for $12.1 million.