| Today in the news, a little-known Banksy mural in Brooklyn is finally back on view after a decade in storage. Our Staff Reporter Isa Farfan has the bittersweet story behind the artwork. Meanwhile, two people are reportedly arrested at the UCLA campus for the crime of trying to screen a documentary about last year’s pro-Palestine student encampments. Also today, queer artists grapple with issues of representation and tokenization in a New York group show, and John Yau muses on Lori Larusso’s color-saturated paintings about overconsumption and waste. And make sure to check out our recommendations for art shows to see in Los Angeles and Upstate New York this month, plus Required Reading, A View From the Easel, and our useful Opportunities listings for artists and arts workers. Have a great Friday! — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | | |
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| | Interested in how consumer society processes food and images, Lori Larusso depicts an increasingly askew consumer-driven world. | John Yau |
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SPONSORED | | | | | On view from May 6 through 18 in Medford, Massachusetts, this exhibition represents the 2025 MFA class and their journey through numerous “unprecedented” events. Learn more |
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LATEST IN ART | | | Rich photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans, Steve Mallon’s odes to locomotives, Joanna Grabiarz’s joyful etchings, and so much more. | Taliesin Thomas |
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SPONSORED | | | | | El Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico seeks to serve teachers, children, incarcerated people, and local artists alike, expanding the definition of what a museum can do. Learn more |
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| | Amalia Mesa-Bains’s altars to memory, Akinsanya Kambon’s Pan-Africanist sculptures, colonial wine production, restaging Diane Arbus’s 1972 retrospective, and more. | Matt Stromberg |
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| | | Amid pervasive uncertainty, queerness emerges as a deliberate unraveling of solidity across the diverse works of eight artists. | Ho Won Kim |
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MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC | | | “You become part of the studio’s rhythm, and in that negotiation, something shifts in the work.” | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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| | | This week: surviving as an artist in New York City, nostalgic ’90s ads, Mohsen Madawi walks free, the Northern Lights speak, a seven-year-old’s gallery opening, and more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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| | | Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Vilcek Foundation, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers. |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | Another day, another Banksy in New York City, and today’s Easter egg popped up on Ludlow Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. | Hrag Vartanian |
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TRANSITIONS | | Ei Arakawa will represent Japan in the 2026 Venice Biennale. Paul R. Provost was named president of the New York Academy of Art. Wolfram Weimer was named the German Minister of State for Culture. |
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AWARDS & ACCOLADES | | Jennifer Bornstein, T. J. Dedeaux-Norris, Andrea Fraser, Liz Glynn, Heather Hart, and Jefferson Pinder received the 2025–26 Rome Prize in Visual Arts from the American Academy in Rome. See the full list here.
Zélie Hallosserie won the inaugural Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize.
The Mellon Foundation announced $15 million in emergency funding to the Federation of State Humanities Councils.
The Rothko Chapel in Houston, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and Sainte Chapelle in Paris are among the recipients of Bank of America Art Conservation Project grants. See the full list here.
Adam Zyglis received the 2025 National Headliner Awards for Editorial Cartoons. Clay Bennett and Gary Markstein won second and third place. |
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