Who Asked for an AI Art Museum?
Plus, a child punctures a Magritte in Israel, and Nayland Blake speaks with Hyperallergic about eroticism, play, and the role of the artist.
Danielle Mckinney’s Portraits of Black Women at Rest
Each figure in her paintings luxuriates in the dreaminess of space belonging to her and her alone.
Nayland Blake Doesn’t Believe in Fixed Selves
“You have to be a person who champions other work,” they told Hyperallergic, “so that you build the context within which your work can be legible.”
Tennis-Inspired Art Unites Sport, Affection, and Luxury Design
The brand Tennis&Arte, founded by Ana Oliveira and Cesar Sabino, transforms the sport into exclusive art using clay and real elements from the courts. The Redefinition of Sport Through Contemporary…
Beer With a Painter: Samia Halaby
At her longtime studio in Tribeca, the Palestinian-American painter discussed her experimentation with color and how she “accidentally stepped into abstraction.”
Phoenix Art Museum Receives Largest Gift of Native American Works
A hundred works by Indigenous artists tracing creative resilience over the course of a century will go on view at the institution in August.
Carmen Maria Machado on Power
Plus, the largest survey of Arthur Jafa’s work is coming to New York.
7 Art Books You Should Read This Pride Month
A joint biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, a catalog on Martin Wong’s Chinatowns, Catherine Opie’s portraiture, queer nightlife through the ages, and more.
My Queasy, Forest-Scented Stroll Through LA’s New AI Art Museum
Refik Anadol’s Dataland is a whirling, glaring, hyper-stimulating audio-visual-olfactory voyage that has more in common with Disneyland.
Kohei Yamada: MY SCREEN TESTS @ Gr Gallery, New York (UPDATED with Installation Imagery)
GR gallery is pleased to present My Screen Tests, the first New York City solo exhibition by Kohei Yamada. The exhibition examines the enduring value of the authentic relationship between…