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Melvin Edwards, Who Sculpted a New Vocabulary for Political Art, Dies at 88
4+ hour, 35+ min ago (138+ words) His innovative abstractions evoked both the art historical canon and the haunting afterlives of Atlantic slavery. Sculptor Melvin Edwards, whose innovative abstraction evoked both the sculptural canon and the haunting afterlives of Atlantic slavery, died on Monday, March 30, at the…...
Kamrooz Aram Breaks Down the Grid
18+ hour, 35+ min ago (215+ words) Rather than deconstruct Western modernism or reinsert Islamic visual idioms, the artist loosens the grip of the grid. Kamrooz Aram was everywhere I happened to be these early months of 2026, and I'm all the luckier for it. He exhibited at…...
Brooklyn Museum’s Africa Collection to Get a Brand New Space
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (759+ words) The new exhibition space will connect the art and historical legacy of Ancient Egypt and North Africa to that of the rest of the continent. Ten years after Arts of Africa became its own department at the Brooklyn Museum, the…...
Joel Meyerowitz on Photographing Giorgio Morandi’s Studio
1+ week, 3+ day ago (220+ words) He was assembling a force field of geometric objects," said Meyerowitz, whose book of images exploring the painter's famous still lifes is being rereleased this spring. He was assembling a force field of geometric objects: circles, cylinders, cubes, rectangles, boxes,…...
What’s So New About the New Museum Building?
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1049+ words) The Lower East Side institution's OMA-designed, $82 million expansion debuted this week to mixed reviews. An old friend returned to Nolita this week after a lengthy absence, and from the looks of it, she had a lot of work done. After…...
A Late Feminist Sculptor Who Plumbed the History of Human Migration
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (415+ words) Mary Ann Unger's massive biomorphic artworks, now on view in New York City, are shockingly prescient and powerful now more than ever. In Unger's original text about the work, she cites the Mongol migration over the Beringia land bridge that…...
What Do We Really Think of the New New Museum?
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (1872+ words) Hyperallergic's editors sit down for an earnest conversation about the institution's expanded building and inaugural exhibition. After a four-year process and two-year closure, the New Museum has finally returned. Designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas, this 60,000-square-foot expansion…...
The New New Museum
2+ week, 1+ day ago (403+ words) The Manhattan institution reopens this week! Plus, the sari in NYC, Gainsborough, Carol Bove, and a tiny haven for experimental art in Brooklyn. New Humans at the new New Museum: Try to say that five times fast. But yes "the…...
Beverly Buchanan’s Architecture of Care
2+ week, 5+ day ago (295+ words) Her practice was one of embodied noticing " exploring, feeling out, or reaching longingly for a Southern architectural vernacular. Left: Installation view of Beverly Buchanan, "Medicine Woman" (1993), mixed media; right: Beverly Buchanan, "Shot Gun House" (1992), mixed media, both in in the…...
Bidding Adieu to Art Deco’s Democratic Dream
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (112+ words) A century later, the decline of the movement represents the death of the grand designs it traded in. Intimate paintings spanning nearly four decades of the artist's career are on view at the gallery from February 28 to March 21. Over 50 exhibitors,…...