This week, we’re pleased to present a new podcast episode featuring a rare interview with the inimitable writer and art critic Lucy Lippard. Speaking with Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian, Lippard looks back at her distinguished career and explains why she left New York City for New Mexico. Artist Susan Bee, a member of the women-led A.I.R. gallery, and Brooklyn Museum’s Curator of Feminist Art Catherine Morris join in to talk about Lippard’s sizable influence on American art history. Give it a listen. Also not to miss is poet Kaveh Akbar’s interview with Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, which you can only read on Hyperallergic. The two writers discuss writing, art, and Pamuk’s illustrated notebooks, published this week. This is a chance to also mention our list of the 30 best art books of 2024, which happens to feature Akbar’s bestselling debut novel, Martyr!. In other stories, Roman scholar Sarah E. Bond slays the newly released Hollywood movie Gladiator II for its “both problematic and familiar” depictions of Africa and Africans, and our reporter Isa Farfan sets out to answer the question: How affordable (or insanely overpriced) are museum cafes in New York City? Also, we’re thrilled to introduce our inaugural Thanksgiving Stuffing edition featuring lighthearted jabs at this art world that we so much love-hate. We hope you enjoy it. Happy weekend! — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | |
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| | | In a rare recorded interview, the feminist writer, critic, and activist tells us what took her from seeing 30 shows a week in New York City to small-town New Mexico. |
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| | | | Poet Kaveh Akbar speaks with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist about his book of journal entries and paintings, authors who also make art, and the delight of writing fiction. | Kaveh Akbar |
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SPONSORED | | | | The MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is now accepting applications for fall 2025. Our prestigious two-year degree focuses on every practical aspect of curatorial work, with studies in art history, exhibition history, and theory toward your professional career. |
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FROM OUR CRITICS | | | | His paintings are invitingly impenetrable, even as they stir up all sorts of associations, from mythological beginnings to rampant lust and greed. | John Yau
Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles brings together varied stylistic traditions and artists of different centuries to display the breadth of Diné weaving. | Nancy Zastudil
The video art pioneer has been warning us from the start that the more advanced digital tech becomes, the more vigilant we must all be against its lurid seductions. | Ela Bittencourt |
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BOOKS, AUTHORS, ARTISTS | | | | This expansive genre includes any title with a bearing on the multifaceted art world — from Audrey Flack’s memoir to Caitlin Cass’s Suffrage Song.
Organized around the five components of a song, Nikki A. Greene dissects a lineage of sonic resonance and visual aesthetics in Grime, Glitter, and Glass. | Nereya Otieno
In a new book, the novelist and essayist writes in parallel to, rather than directly about, art. | Carl Little |
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FILM & PERFORMANCE | | | | In Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! performance artist Alina Troyano asks: Where does one identity start and the other end? Can they even be separated? | Alexis Clements
The film’s casting of Africa and Africans as largely rebellious, uncivil, and above all outside of the bounds of the Roman empire is incorrect and dangerous. | Sarah E. Bond
“I wanted to make something aggressively non-linear, using sound and music to express things that hard language couldn’t,” the artist said of his latest work. | Matt Stromberg |
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| THANKSGIVING STUFFING | | | This Thanksgiving, we wanted to bring some levity to an American holiday that is as controversial as it is beloved. Inspired by the tradition of satire that Hyperallergic has long been a part of, we present a smorgasbord of tasty delights that will take your mind off of the difficult family conversations this weekend. | | Mashed potato artist Chât G’ptein is the darling of a new class of crypto-billionaire art collectors. | Hrag Vartanian
From Georgia O’Keeffe’s suggestive cabbage to Andrew Wyeth’s cornbread of the everyman, the findings represent a treasure of art and culinary history. | Valentina Di Liscia
After a tense week of competition and a food fight among the Surrealists, which contestants will advance to the next round of the Great Artists’ Bake Off? | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
No Vanitas paintings, no parables, no metaphors — just pigging out. | Lisa Yin Zhang
This Thanksgiving, cryptocurrency billionaire Justin Sun reminds us all not to waste by eating Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian,” his $6.2 million banana. | Natalie Haddad |
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ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | The exhibition is part of a biannual Met tradition since 1935. | Maya Pontone
The Met’s cafe is sad with stunning views, while the Queens Museum’s takes the cake for the lowest overall prices. | Isa Farfan
After 27 months of union contract delays, we’ve had no choice but to take drastic measures. | Josh Davis
This week: The Indigenous woman in Dorothea Lange’s famous photo, Brutalist speakers, a new mural in SF, horses as healers, and can we really speak to animals? | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Organized by geographic region, a list of arts-related graduate programs to explore and apply to before deadlines close. |
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