Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s to love’s indomitable light.
| Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s to love’s indomitable light. I can’t recommend these two pieces by our staff writers enough:Rhea Nayyaron her dating app tribulations from an art historical perspective, and Maya Pontone on age-old allegorical romance maps. Also, check out our list of love-themed art books to read this holiday. It’s not so lovey-dovey in Australia, which ditched its chosen artist for the next Venice Biennale, Lebanese-born Khaled Sabsabi, because he featured the assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a video work. Get all the details in our report. Also today: Our Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian reviews two New York shows by Alexis Rockman and the drag queen artist Tabboo!, plus our weekly columns Required Reading and A View From the Easel. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | | |
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| | As it turns out, men have been posing with fish for hundreds of years. | Rhea Nayyar |
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SPONSORED | | | | | This exhibition marks the New York premiere of the artist’s two-channel video installation, The Sounds of Cannons, Familiar Like Sad Refrains / Đại Bác Nghe Quen Như Câu Dạo Buồn, alongside related kinetic sculptures made from bomb fragments. Collectively, the works explore how materials hold memory and the potential for transformation, reincarnation, and healing.
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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! 💘 | | 8 Art Books on Love to Read This Valentine’s Day Letter-writing, art historical affairs, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, and more artsy titles on love in all its forms. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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| | | Why bother with the so-called Gulf of America when you can dip in the Bay of Bliss or Cape Content? | Maya Pontone |
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SPONSORED | | | | | The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts is accepting applications for September 2025. Learn more |
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LATEST REVIEWS | | | From a large Wigstock banner to more intimate self-portraits, Tabboo!’s art sparkles anew in two contemporaneous exhibitions. | Hrag Vartanian |
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| | Alexis Rockman Paints Humanity’s Final Season Taking on Thomas Cole’s epic The Course of Empire, the New York artist asks if we’ve all had a good run. | Hrag Vartanian |
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ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | It took only one week for the country to find a reason to disqualify Lebanese-born artist Khaled Sabsabi. | Maya Pontone |
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| | | “Water has become my actual medium.” | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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| | | This week: snarky dance criticism, a Super Bowl performer’s protest, Barbara Kingsolver builds a rehab center, Chappell Roan starts a trend, and did Rupi Kaur’s poem age well? | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | Imagine falling in love every day of your life. | Jack Sjogren |
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TRANSITIONS | | Ana Briz was appointed assistant director and curator of exhibitions at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California Santa Barbara.
Jordan Casteel is now represented by Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in addition to Casey Kaplan gallery.
Rebecca Lowery was named curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Kate McNamara was appointed interim director at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University.
Azita Moradkhani is now represented byJane Lombard Gallery.
Mary-Kate O’Hare was named executive director and chief executive officer at the Bruce Museum.
Anne Collins Smith was appointed chief curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Christian Waguespack was appointed director of curatorial affairs and curator of Northwest Art at the Museum of Northwest Art.
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AWARDS & ACCOLADES | | Demond Melancon is the 2024 recipient of the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art from the Gibbes Museum of Art. Read more on Hyperallergic.
Felipe Baeza, Jeffrey Meris, and Guadalupe Maravilla are among the recipients of the 2025 Vilcek Foundation prizes. See the full list here.
SANAA, the collaborative practice of Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, received the 2025 Royal Gold Medal for architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Anthony J. Suber, Byron Canady, and Chris Thomas / YungChris are among the recipients of 2025 Artist Awards from the Houston-based BIPOC Arts Network and Fund. See the full list here.
Yang Jung-uk received the Korea Artist Prize 2024 from the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul. |
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