| Happy International Women’s Day! Today, we embrace all that womanhood can be and push back against the attacks on its many facets and iterations — though I’m sure it was a man’s idea to have it fall on a Saturday! (I joke — the March 8 observance is linked to various historical events, including organizing by the Socialist Party of America in NYC and Russian women’s “Bread and Peace” strike that helped them secure suffrage in 1917.) In the spirit of celebration, painter Hélène de Beauvoir, whose work was long overshadowed by the success of her sister, French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, finally gets the spotlight. From London, Avedis Hadjian reports on the artist’s first-ever solo show in Britain. And here in New York City, Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar talks to Met Museum curator Iris Moon about the upcoming exhibition Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, which addresses longstanding sexist tropes and cultural stereotypes imposed on the porcelain craft. Speaking of narratives worth uncovering, Carolina A. Miranda tells the story of Nicaraguan artisan Manuel Sandoval, a key figure behind some of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s most applauded designs. It’s a joy to see Carolina write for Hyperallergic again. If you’re feeling salty, I recommend Senior Editor Hakim Bishara’s candid review of Anne Imhof’s “tragically hollow” performance. PSA: The work lasts three hours and it sounds insufferable, so it’s in your best interest to read this before getting a ticket .Also: What are you doing Monday? Wanna hang? On March 10, join Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian at the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) for a discussion on visionary artist Martin Wong and the legacy of street art. He’ll be moderating a panel with artist Lee Quiñones, PPOW Gallery Co-Founder Wendy Olsoff, and MCNY Curator Sean Corcoran. Get there a bit early so you can see the show Above Ground: Art from the Martin Wong Graffiti Collection. — Valentina Di Liscia, News Editor | | |
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 | | Artist Ryan Preciado unearths the story of Manuel Sandoval, a Nicaraguan artisan whose important contributions to 20th-century modernist design have long been buried. | Carolina A. Miranda |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Donna Honarpisheh, Aimé Iglesias Lukin, and Bernardo Mosqueira, recipients of the Vilcek Prizes in Curatorial Work, investigate Blackness in the history of photography, global art history, the art of the Americas, and emerging and radical artists from the Global South.
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OPPORTUNITIES THIS MONTH |  | | Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from Center for Craft, UT Austin, Bemis Center, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers. |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | This year’s graduating students share an inside look into this tuition-free program. Learn more |
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IN NEW YORK |  | | DOOM: House of Hope is comically apolitical and tragically hollow beneath all the hype. | Hakim Bishara
Michel Goldberg’s black and white dance of birth and death, ransome’s stoic and elegant portraits, Kipton Hinsdale’s near-berserk mark-making, and more. | Taliesin Thomas
See socially and politically engaged art, Trenton Doyle Hancock paired with Philip Guston, plus geometric abstraction and some medieval treasures. | Natalie Haddad, Lisa Yin Zhang, and John Yau |
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|  | | With generous, sharp humor, Hancock and Guston show us through their art how venial and self-deceiving we have become. | John Yau
The show argues that caring for unhoused and dispossessed people is not a task to be sloughed off to the “city,” but rather a responsibility each of us shoulders. | lisa Yin Zhang
From the original doll of 1959 to the Barbies of today, an exhibition tracks the life of an icon that just became a senior citizen. | Carol Ockman |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | The festival, taking place from March 12-16, includes 38 premieres, including films by Sofia Bohdanowicz, Durga Chew-Bose, Omar Mismar, Göran Hugo Olsson, Charlie Shackleton, and Claire Simon. Learn more |
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ART IN LA |  | | Kour Pour’s geometric genealogies, Isabel Yellin’s sculptures of grief, Bruce Nauman’s LA years, Gustave Caillebotte’s figuration, and more. | Matt Stromberg
This exhibition about the multihyphenate filmmaker is as much about the place he chose to call home and all the people who pepper it with color. | Nereya Otieno
Alternately ominous and transcendent, Doug Aitken’s panoramic Lightscape cycles through scenes of human movement enthralled by highways and city streets. | Brian Karl |
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A VIEW FROM THE EASEL |  | | This week, artists revel in the freedom of southern Indiana and the gift of an outdoor painting space. | | Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio. |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC |  | | The first show of the artist’s work in the UK is both a celebration and an act of historical correction. | Avedis Hadjian
Met Museum curator Iris Moon dismantles misconceptions of vanity and frivolity within the porcelain craft in the upcoming exhibition Monstrous Beauty. | Rhea Nayyar
In 2018, art institutions began exhibiting shows on ecology and climate change. As with every turn, it risked being taken as just another intellectual trend. | Pedro Gadanho
The $10K award, canceled for the 2026 fiscal year amid Trump’s anti-DEI mandates, was long seen as an entry point for receiving federal funding. | Isa Farfan
This week: Anne Carson on handwriting and Cy Twombly, Roberta Flack’s outsized legacy, the downfall of Shein, the “Zillennial” curse, and much more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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UPCOMING TOWN HALL |  | | At our virtual town hall meeting on March 19, Hyperallergic Members will hear from Lise Ragbir and Ola Mobolade on the tenuous state of DEI in the art world. |
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THIS MONTH'S CROSSWORD |  | | The art world’s beginning to thaw, and we have clues to kick off spring — from Amy Sherald and Christine Sun Kim to Dutch masters and Luigi Mangione’s signature color. | Natan Last |
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