The beauty of Iranian brickwork, the murderous silence on Gaza, the truth about Coldplay, and the anglerfish that touched the hearts of millions.

From Glenn Ligon’s critique of society’s ills to Diane Arbus’s complicity in them, the solo shows below provide plenty of food for thought.

Questionable curatorial choices seem intended to prevent critical discussion in a major survey at Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory.

The genre is more alive than ever, so why are many eager to pronounce it dead?

The blue-chip art market inflates with anger and slams its fist if you keep pestering it with the nuisance of the outside world.

The art of Marsha P. Johnson, Yoko Ono reappraised, Jack Whitten’s studio notebook, a fictional curator’s Greece trip goes awry, and more to read this season.

Just like Caspar David Friedrich and the Romanticists, we live in anxious times and hunger for a touch of the sublime.

Delve into Lucy Lippard’s short fictions, Tamara Lanier’s indelible memoir, The White Pube’s tales of absurdity in the art world, new perspectives on Mucha, and more.

DOOM: House of Hope is comically apolitical and tragically hollow beneath all the hype.

Kamari Carter’s political art, visionary Shaker art, and Esther Mahlangu's colorful geometries, along with many other in-person and online shows will beat your winter blues.

This year, we’re rereading a fictional dialogue by Oscar Wilde, bell hooks’s book of art criticism, prose poetry by Etel Adnan, and more titles that won’t make it onto most industry lists.

From the visual pleasures of Mary Sully to the cultural critique of Gary Simmons, to a lesson in Haitian art history, there’s plenty of great art to see right now.

Hyperallergic editors round up the trends and habits we hope will be left behind in 2024 — and those we want to embrace more fully in the new year.

His toy-brick masterpieces are tributes to anyone terrorized and brutalized by the world’s great powers and their proxies.

Take a break from the holiday chaos and replenish yourself with funny, dynamic, and subtle art by Thomas Schütte, Ralph Lemon, Alexandra Exter, and others.

Vibrant sculptures by Anne Samat, Bill Viola’s humanistic videos, and emotive pieces by the Studio Museum’s artists in residence are some of our favorite artworks right now.

Maurizio Cattelan swims in the same swamp as those he pretends to parody.

A biography of Andy Warhol’s mother, São Paulo’s Neo-Avant-Garde, resplendent Hokusai works, plus new monographs and catalogs to check out this month.

The house was already on fire, and both presidential candidates showed up to the race brandishing a box of matches.

As mid-October rolls around we’re enjoying some serious and not-so-serious art by Carrie Mae Weems, Mala Iqbal, Lady Shalamar Montague, and others.

Keep spooky season at bay with books on a philosophy of birth in art, Debi Cornwall's photography, Paul Kane’s myth-making paintings, light and paper, and more.

Start off the month with thoughtful shows by a range of artists, from established names like Nan Goldin to newcomers like Rachel Martin and trailblazers like Elizabeth Catlett.

Her sculptures for The Met’s facade commission look like they’ve always been there, Frankensteined in the bowels of the museum’s ethnographic collections.

Is this year’s fair a reflection of a tired, oversaturated, and complacent art market, or am I looking for excitement and discovery where they can no longer be found?

“Best Booth”? No, thank you. This year, we honor the real standouts at the fair, from the shiniest artworks to the most Duchampian.

Make sure not to miss shows featuring Jenny Holzer, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Huong Dodinh, and others, plus a lot of dogs.

Delve into the tales of a queer book conservator at The Met, an actress in the West Bank, a painter with a secret, and other characters whose lives intersect with art.

From a Christmas-themed show to a window exhibition at Chinatown’s oldest running shop, this hot month is full of surprises.

While cultural critics slobber over the former president’s media savviness, meme-makers are here to burst their disingenuous bubble.

The artist’s latest show belongs in the toilet — and that’s exactly where he put it.

“I'm not so interested in photography anymore,” Goldin told our senior editor. “That should be the headline,” he replied.

From Niki de Saint Phalle to the subway, time is running out to see some of our favorite art in the city.

Gaza is everywhere across the artist’s Guggenheim show, but you wouldn’t know it.

“I don't think anybody believed I could be an artist,” the 82-year-old painter told Hyperallergic in an interview.

This month: Pacita Abad’s trapunto paintings, Nona Faustine’s stirring body art, Ibrahim Said’s futuristic ceramics, and much more. 

At Tribeca’s trendy Spring Studios, I found an art fair in denial.

From an occult Renaissance manuscript and the history of eyeliner to Salman Rushdie’s new book, our staff and contributors have got you covered.

Vibrant colors and fantastical creatures are in abundance in shows by Sanam Khatibi, Julia Bland, Claude Lawrence, Annette Wehrhahn, and others.

She leaves behind a massive corpus of visually stunning works tackling race, gender, and social justice in the United States.

Art-world people love lobbing this low-hanging critical fruit at the exhibition. This year especially, the moniker is ill-fitting and glib.

Get your comic fix with moving, witty, poignant books by Ai Weiwei, Tessa Hulls, Julia Wertz, Mattie Lubchansky, and more.

The German media praised the move, accusing several international bodies of water of antisemitism.

This month: Huma Bhabha, Paul Cadmus, Kay WalkingStick, Beatrix Potter, and more.

Samia Halaby, the collaborative history of photography, ancient cave paintings, shapeshifting flocks of birds, and more for your art reading list.

This month: Aki Sasamoto, Shary Boyle, Apollinaria Broche, Godzilla, and more.

"What is more important? Art or the right to healthy and sustainable food?" the activists yelled.

From an artist’s moving children’s book to an index of Indigenous North American type, add these art titles to your 2024 reading list.

Sonya Clark’s latest catalogue, the case for decolonizing drag, Coco Fusco speaks truth to power, a memoir of Brooklyn’s underground performance scene, and more.

The guerilla protest coincided with a march for Gaza in Manhattan.

In a statement to Hyperallergic after Lisson Gallery nixed his show, the artist warned of “soft violence aimed at stifling voices” on the topic of the Israel-Palestine conflict.