| Who said, “No more drag shows, or other anti-American propaganda — only the best”? You guessed it: That’s US President Donald Trump, announcing that he installed himself as chair of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to promote his vision for a “Golden Age of American Arts and Culture.”
And who promised to “wage a Relentless War of purification against the last elements of our cultural decay”? Yup, this one was Adolf Hitler. The two quotes sound alarmingly similar, don't they? That’s the point that writer Ed Simon makes in his opinion essay below, explaining how Trump and his co-schemers are hell-bent on taking us back to the dark days of “degenerate art.” Give it a read, please.
On a brighter note, we’re excited to announce the release of our Spring 2025 New York Art Guide, spanning over 70 museum exhibitions and art events in and around this great city. Highlights include an Amy Sherald mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum and John Singer Sargent’s Paris paintings at The Met in April, art fair week and Hilma af Klint’s botanical drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in May, and much more.
If you’re in the city next month, join us on Monday, March 10, for an event at the Museum of the City of New York, where our Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanianwill moderate a discussionwith legendary graffiti artist Lee Quiñones, PPOW Gallery’s Wendy Olsoff, and curatorSean Corcoran about the exhibition Above Ground: Art from the Martin Wong Graffiti Collection. Hyperallergic Members get a $15 discount on tickets. Not a member yet? Join today!
There’s more, including coverage of the Los Angeles fairs this week and reviews of Dawoud Bey, Marina Perez Simão, Raoul De Keyser, Rudy Burckhardt, and a collection of late critic John Berger’s charming letters to his artist son. Stay safe out there. — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | | |
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 | | The president’s obsession with cultural control is evidence of a continued fascist creep, and not just another joke exercise in narcissism. | Ed Simon |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | Guadalupe Maravilla, Selva Aparicio, Felipe Baeza, and Jeffrey Meris have been awarded the 2025 Vilcek Prizes in Visual Arts. Learn more |
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| UPCOOMING EVENTS |  | | Join Hrag Vartanian, artist Lee Quiñones, PPOW Gallery Co-Founder Wendy Olsoff, and MCNY Curator Sean Corcoran for a discussion on the evolution of graffiti as an art form and the lasting influence of visionary artist and collector Martin Wong. Monday, March 10, at 7pm in NYC.
The 2024 Craft Archive Fellows will present their research on underrepresented craft histories in an online event hosted by the Center for Craft and moderated by Hyperallergic associate editor Lakshmi Rivera Amin. Thursday, February 27, from 5 to 6:30pm. |
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SPONSORED |  | | | | The Michigan museum opens its new expansion featuring works from The Bennett Collection of Women Figurative Realists. Learn more |
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LA ART WEEK |  | | From the Anti-Frieze performance festival to a benefit exhibition for artists impacted by fires, the city’s creative communities return with resilience. | Matt Stromberg
The levity of this year’s edition feels purposeful: Not only will the show not be marred by tragedy, but it will also remind attendees of art’s potential to express joy. | Renée Reizman
Even inside the tent, works that had no connection to the recent devastating fires took on new levels of meaning. | Matt Stromberg
Among an array of work by local artists at Post-Fair and the Other Art Fair, the only white cubes to be found were floating in craft cocktails. | Sigourney Schultz |
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| HAPPENING IN NYC |  | | Your guide to this season’s must-see museum exhibitions and art events in and around New York City.
Depth and wonder abound in shows featuring artists Alexis Rockman, Stephanie H. Shih, Raoul De Keyser, Roxanne Jackson, and Tabboo! | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, Seph Rodney, and Julie Schneider
From Cauleen Smith’s trilogy on volcanos to Philippe Parreno’s intimate exploration of Goya, here’s what to watch. | Dan Schindel Nearly 50 paintings by the artist will go on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art starting April 9. | Maya Pontone
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| FROM OUR CRITICS |  | | The point is: We remember traumas, and it’s crucial that we do, and not foist off our responsibility onto mute things that do not answer when we call. | Seph Rodney
Marina Perez Simão systematizes nature’s motifs and distills them into interlocking volumes and color bands in paintings as cerebral as they are sensuous. | Ela Bittencourt
Because the waywardness of his paintings is a product of its unspoken logic, his marks and variations are performing precisely the right roles. | Natalie Haddad
The complexity of Burckhardt’s work is easy to overlook, because he calls attention to neither his mastery nor his labor. | John Yau |
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ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC |  | | Over to You is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art. | Lauren Moya Ford
Her work integrates contemporary labor strikes into the visual language of social realism, asserting that these efforts are not anomalies but regularities. | Leia Genis
This week: a trip to “Yokofest,” outsmarting surveillance pricing, the Haida Nation reclaims its land, dachshund side-eye paintings, and did Microsoft invent a new type of matter? | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from Cornell University, the Museum of Arts and Design, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers. |
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THIS MONTH'S MINI |  | | Michelangelo’s biopic, Klimt’s iconic embrace, and more in this mini puzzle for the shortest month of the year. | Natan Last |
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