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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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Ann Craven taps into the moon’s timeless current of collective experience, framing its celestial light and eternal return as a steady source of solace and a template for transformation.

Ann Craven’s Moonlit Meditations

In Craven’s paintings of the moon, birds, and blossoms, as in nature, change is a constant, generative cycle.

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Over 16 years, Hyperallergic has been home to over 2,500 voices in independent art journalism. Now, it's time for a new Editor-in-Chief. Welcome, Hakim Bishara.

Meet Hyperallergic’s New Editor-in-Chief

After 16 years in the role, I'm passing the torch to Hakim Bishara as I transition to the role of editor-at-large.

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Iconic altars that popularized Día de los Muertos in the US, photographs by the radical nun Corita Kent, Claire Chambless’s gothic dollhouses, and more art to see in LA this October.

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles, October 2025

Radical nun Corita Kent’s photos, Ofelia Esparza’s transformative Día de los Muertos altars, Cameron Harvey’s biomorphic abstraction, Suchitra Mattai’s syncretic storytelling, and more.

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Despite the current ubiquity of cameras, we rarely pause in our flurry of social media sharing to document one of the most significant events in all our lives: death.

The Lost Ritual of Photographing the Dead

Despite the current ubiquity of cameras, we rarely pause in our flurry of social media sharing to document one of the most significant events in all our lives: death.

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Comedians pander to authoritarianism in Riyadh, a new hybrid Blue-Green Jay bird species, the magic of film restoration, and more in this week’s Required Reading.

Required Reading

This week: film restorers perform magic, sellout comedians in Riyadh, Native boarding school survivors tell their stories, remembering Jane Goodall, ranking pasta shapes, and more.

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In this week’s A View From the Easel, artists Brandon Hendrick and Stephanie Perez embrace non-traditional studios and paint wherever inspiration strikes.

A View From the Easel

“When it starts to rain, it will literally change the painting.”

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At ICP’s annual Photobook Fest, many booths seem to capture and quell the anxieties of the present political moment.

Immigrant and Protest Imagery Shine at NYC’s Photobook Fest

The International Center of Photography’s annual showcase captures and quells the anxieties of the present political moment.

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Just three years after it reopened, the Orange County Museum of Art has merged with the University of California, Irvine, resulting in a new institution that will house a collection of more than 9,000 works of art.

UC Irvine Takes Over Orange County Museum of Art

The merger will combine both institutions’ holdings to establish a collection of over 9,000 artworks.

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“How can we take these collaborative, spontaneous, anonymous, witty, performative qualities expressed organically during the protests and apply them in an artistic setting to re-create this interconnectedness amid a heavily censored environment?” —artist and academic Işıl Eğrikavuk

Is Political Protest a Collaborative Art Form?

Hyperallergic speaks to artist and academic Işıl Eğrikavuk about whether art can help keep the spirit of protests alive.

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