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“Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” Pops Up in DC The guerrilla artwork includes “stars” for MoMA trustee Leon Black, arts patron Les Wexner, and over a dozen other individuals mentioned in the Epstein files.

A “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” has appeared in Washington DC’s Farragut Square. Stickers resembling the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are printed with the convicted sex offender’s likeness below the names and titles of figures mentioned in the Epstein files.

15 Art Excursions Outside NYC This Spring The avant-garde environments of Piero Manzoni, the abstract visions of Agnes Martin, Rina Banerjee’s diaphanous monuments, and so much else to see.

We rounded up this season’s must-see art shows that are a simple train ride (or drive) from New York City: Rina Banerjee at the Yale Center for British Art, Agnes Martin at Dia Beacon, Piero Manzoni at Magazzino, and so much more.

Remembering Iris Cantor, Ulysses Jenkins, and Rena Bransten This week, we honor an arts patron, a video artist, and a San Francisco gallerist.

In Memoriam honors those we recently lost in the art world. This week, we remember the avant-garde video artist Ulysses Jenkins, ceramic artist Jasmine Little, and San Francisco gallerist Rena Bransten, among other greats.

Artists Thinking Out Loud: The IFPDA Returns to the Park Avenue Armory this April The fair will bring together 80 exhibitors and an expanded focus on drawings in a nod to the medium’s long-standing relationship with printmaking.

An annual pilgrimage site for print curators and collectors, the IFPDA Print Fair returns to the Park Avenue Armory this April with an expanded focus on drawings alongside prints.

Guggenheim Union Rallies at Carol Bove Reception “We're out here rallying to put pressure on the museum to come back to the bargaining table with a bit more movability on their positions,” said one of the workers.

With negotiations in progress for the next contract ratification, Guggenheim Union workers rallied outside the famous rotunda during the opening reception for Carol Bove’s solo exhibition.

Magdalena Abakanowicz Sculpted the Collective Body Her organic sculptures convey a quiet power, the faceless anonymity of multitudes transformed into a collective oneness.

Organic sculptures by the late Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz convey a quiet power, the faceless anonymity of multitudes transformed into a collective oneness.

Art Movements: Anicka Yi Picks Up the Pace The artist is now represented by Pace, along with three other galleries. Plus, NYC has a new culture commissioner, closures at art schools, and more industry news.

Anicka Yi is now represented by Pace (plus three other galleries), New York City has a new culture commissioner, the High Museum’s COO resigned after $600K went missing, and more news from the art world in this week’s Art Movements.

Suffering From “Creative Hangover”? You’re Not Alone A new study finds that artists experience negative emotions the morning after their most productive days.

You know that feeling of emptiness and exhaustion after a creative spurt? A new study has a name for this phenomenon — “creative hangover” — plus some surprising findings.

The Art Crossword: Whitney Museum Edition We’re less than a week away from the institution’s major biennial. How much do you know about its collections and controversies?

The Whitney Biennial opens in just a few days. Test your knowledge of the Whitney Museum in the latest Art Crossword!

Long-Lost Rembrandt Goes on Display at the Rijksmuseum Previously misattributed to a pupil of the Dutch Master, the painting was hidden from public view in a private collection for over six decades.

A two-year study by Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum recently revealed that a work long thought to be painted by one of Rembrandt’s pupils was actually made by the Dutch Master himself. Now, it’s going on view for the first time in more than 60 years.

In Conversation: Will Wilson In partnership with Art Bridges, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey presents works by Will Wilson alongside historic photographs by Edward Sheriff Curtis. On view through August 23.

An exhibition at The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey brings together works by Diné (Navajo) artist Will Wilson alongside historic photos by Edward Sheriff Curtis, offering a thoughtful look at photography’s role in shaping cultural narratives.

Wally Hedrick Protested War With Sex The countercultural San Francisco artist specialized in antiwar art and the transcendent potential of sex in the era of flower power.

In the era of flower power, the countercultural San Francisco artist Wally Hedrick specialized in antiwar art and the transcendent potential of sex.

Explore The Met’s Collection in 3D From Your Couch The museum offers scans of items including a painting by Claude Monet, Neolithic sculptures, and Greek terracotta vases

The Metropolitan Museum of Art just released 100 high-quality 3D scans on its website for free. Now you can get up-close and personal with a voluptuous Neolithic marble figurine, Monet’s haystack paintings, and more.

Making a Mess With CFGNY We spoke to the fashion collective, who will be in the Whitney Biennial and shows at Pioneer Works and Amant, about collectivity and taking chances.

CFGNY is having a big spring. The self-proclaimed “vaguely Asian” art and fashion collective is participating in the Whitney Biennial and presenting shows at Pioneer Works and Amant. Lisa Yin Zhang went to find out what they stand for.

Everyday Traces of NYC’s SWANA Diaspora An exhibition at NYPL offers a window into life within this paradox where invisibility and visibility are two sides of the same coin.

Of all the topics addressed in a small but significant exhibition at the New York Public Library, one should be especially familiar to anyone who identifies as Southwest Asian/North African (SWANA) in the United States: the census.

Hyperallergic Spring 2026 New York Art Guide The gleeful subversiveness of Duchamp at MoMA, the first major US show on Raphael at The Met, and exhibitions on spirituality, the body, fashion, and more.

Enough with those filthy glaciers on our sidewalks — the Hyperallergic Spring 2026 New York Art Guide is here! With 70-plus shows, it’s all you need to know about the major art happenings of the season.

Opportunities in March 2026 Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from Vermont Studio Center, the Japanese American National Museum, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.

Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.

School of Visual Arts Shutters Its Curatorial Practice MA Program The 14-year-old program is no longer accepting applicants, the school said.

After 14 years, the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan will terminate its master of arts degree in curatorial practice when program founder and chair Steven Henry Madoff retires in May 2027.

Can Diya Vij Make NYC More Affordable for Artists? Arts leaders speak about the tough challenges the new culture commissioner will face in the job.

We asked New York City arts leaders for their thoughts on Diya Vij’s appointment as culture commissioner, and what her priorities should be. The billion-dollar question: Can she make one of the world’s most expensive cities more affordable for artists?

First Impressions From the 2026 Whitney Biennial Here’s what we liked, what we didn’t like, and what we’re still working through.

The Whitney Biennial bills itself as the pulse-check of what American art looks like now. This year’s edition is different — moody, contemplative, non-pretentious. Here’s what we liked, what we didn’t, and what we’re ambivalent about.

Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash Over 2,000 faculty and students have called on the Chicago school to reverse its decision, which came after budgetary concerns and layoffs in December.

DePaul University’s decision to close its campus art museum has sparked outrage in Chicago, including an open letter that criticized the move as “short-sighted, wrong-headed, and grounded in some deeply disappointing principles of prioritization.”

Gabrielle Goliath Strikes a Tuning Fork of Dissent The cancellation of the South African artist’s Venice Biennale pavilion reveals the machinations of state censorship — and the ways we can collectively resist it.

The attempts to quash Gabrielle Goliath’s work from being exhibited on a platform as significant as the Venice Biennale illustrate that conscientious artists will find themselves at the coalface of political dissent.

Uman’s Diasporic Abstraction The artist paints the distance between the homeland you lose and the one you try to dream back into existence.

It doesn’t feel like Uman paints toward escape, but rather toward the world as she carries it: the loss of childhood Somalia, the landscapes of Upstate New York, and private interior terrains. Her work suggests finding home in places far from the land that first formed her.

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The Uncertain Future of Colombia’s Museum of Memory Originally envisioned as a center for collective memory and mourning amid the country’s 70-year armed conflict, the building still sits empty in the middle of Bogotá.

Originally envisioned as a center for collective memory and mourning amid Colombia's 70−year armed conflict, the Museum of Memory still sits empty in the middle of Bogotá.

Call for Applications: 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship The Center for Craft will award up to four $5,000 fellowships to support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in an article on Hyperallergic.

The Center for Craft is accepting applications for the 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship, offering four $5,000 awards to support research on underrepresented craft histories in the United States.

Accessibility Should Be at the Center of Museum Education Art history departments often fail to embed disability studies into their curricula when engaging with art, politics, and identity.

As disability is given more credence as an aspect of identity to be discussed through exhibitions, museum educators need to be given their due and brought into conversations about how to thoughtfully contextualize disability in art history.

Art Problems: How Do I Get Into the Whitney Biennial? Conventional wisdom says there isn’t much you can do, but Paddy Johnson knows that’s not the whole story.

It can take a while to get noticed by the Whitney. Pat Oleszko, a performance artist in this year’s Whitney Biennial, has been making art since 1966 and has lived in New York since 1970. How does she feel about being included in the biennial? “Fucking extraordinary!”

How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.

The Greeks and Romans were not without ethnic bias, but our modern definitions of race and space don’t map directly onto the ancient Mediterranean past. A new book on polychromy helps dispel the “myth of whiteness in classical sculpture” that still persists.

Archival Art Will Not Save Us Archival work has a place in historical recovery and cultural self-understanding. But not every artwork must be archival, and our politics shouldn’t end with presence rather than action.

Archival work has a place in historical recovery and cultural self-understanding. But is liberal consumption and dialectical self-affirmation the panacea for historical woes? Do cultural abundance and accumulation free us of pain, or help us produce better art?