Since our inception 15 years ago, Hyperallergic has transformed the art media landscape, cultivated a global readership, and effected real change in the art world. Today we want to hear how our work has impacted your career, organization, or community. Fill out our short survey below to tell us your story, which could be featured and shared with our readers! Today, Staff Reporter Isa Farfan speaks with DACA-recipient artists who are living through uncertain times as anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States peaks and legislative threats to the program put their future in this country at risk. Another must-read today is University of Virginia history professor John Edwin Mason’s review of a new book about the riveting life story of unsung South African photographer Ernest Cole. Meanwhile in the news, over 25,000 artists sign a petition against AI training models that rip off their work, Israel bombs world heritage sites in Lebanon, and Leonora Carrington’s Mexico City home is designated a research center after plans to transform it into a museum were scrapped. There’s more, including an essential catalog on Japanese women photographers, David Bayus’s gender-bending exquisite corpses, Required Reading, and A View From the Easel. Happy Friday! — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | |
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| | | They have completed arts degrees, exhibited their work, and received grants, but some artists say the immigration policy offers limited paths to legal status. | Isa Farfan |
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ART & PHOTGRAPHY | | | | Ernest Cole’s life story is an anti-colonialism epic, Cold War thriller, and a tragedy. | John Edwin Mason |
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| | | | The expansive catalog offers an essential compilation of essays, interviews, and profiles of Japanese women photographers from the 1950s through the present day. | Lauren Moya Ford |
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| | | | The artist unspools a playful and dark-edged narrative that refracts art deco and noir melodrama through the late-modern styles of video games, manga, and fantasy. | Brian Karl |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | “I have a day job, too, so studio time is precious.” | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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| | | | This week: Courbet gets the electoral treatment, the politics of the waistline, ugly medieval dogs, and what happens when you fall out of love with an artwork? |
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TRANSITIONS | Alaina Claire Feldman was named chief curator at University of California Irvine’s Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art.
Christina Lehnert was appointed curator of the 2025 Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art.
Tyler Mitchell is now represented by Gagosian Gallery.
Viktor Neumann was appointed director of Bonner Kunstverein.
Antje Weitzel was named artistic and managing director of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien. |
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AWARDS & ACCOLADES | Abbas Akhavan will represent Canada at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Merika Estna will represent Estonia.
The Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center, the Carrizo Comecrudo Nation, and La Red de Agentes Culturales Comunitarios del Norte are among the grantees of the Frontera Culture Fund at the Mellon Foundation. See the full list here.
Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg was named the recipient of the 2024 Tomorrowland Projects Foundation Award from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Nyala Moon, Kütral Vargas Huaiquimilla, and Dan Paz are among the awardees of fellowships from the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. See the full list here.
Johan Orellana, Ibtisam Tasnim Zaman, Mae Howard, Stephanie Santana, and Ujamaa Earthseed Collective are the BRIClab 2024–2025 cohort for Contemporary Art. See the lists of selected artists for the Video Art and Film and Television cohorts here.
Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, and Mark Bradford received National Medals of Arts. Read more on Hyperallergic. |
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