Today: The Guerrilla Girls are back for their first New York show in a decade; Lubaina Hamid asks who gets a seat at the table in a new suite of paintings; this month's New York and Los Angeles guides; and an especially fun February edition of the Hyperallergic Art Crossword.
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February 04, 2025

Today: TheGuerrilla Girls are back for their first New York show in a decade; Lubaina Hamid asks who gets a seatat the table in a new suite of paintings; this month's New York and Los Angeles guides; and an especially fun February edition of the Hyperallergic Art Crossword.

In the news, a board member at DC’s Holocaust Memorial Museum calls the people of Gaza “fundamentally evil,” while Donald Trump dismantles the President’s Committee on the Arts. Also, the US Copyright Office has updated its policies to consider art made with the help of AI. Read our report to find out what kind of AI-assisted work can be copyrighted.

There’s more, including our useful Opportunities listings of residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls.

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Not All Superheroes Wear Capes, Some Don Gorilla Masks 

This one-room exhibition is a good reminder of how this anonymous group of artists changed how we saw the art world. | Hrag Vartanian

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Lubaina Himid Asks Who Gets a Seat at the Table

Those empowered to supervise large swaths of humanity too often dehumanize us, whether through the levers of state, financial, or political power. | Seph Rodney

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Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland

Indigenous artists offer perspectives on the art of Chicagoland in this new exhibition at The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.

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What Comes After the End?

John Divola asks us: What am I looking at? Is it real? Where does that distinction now lie, given the technology required to make a photograph now? | Julia Curl

WHAT TO SEE IN FEBRUARY

Five New York City Shows to Start Your February

Make sure to check out shows by the Guerrilla Girls and Etel Adnan this week, along with a collection of imagined books and other great exhibitions. | Hrag Vartanian, Natalie Haddad and Lisa Yin Zhang

11 Shows to See in Los Angeles This February

Work by artists impacted by last month’s fires, Joseph Beuys’s reforestation project, Alice Coltrane’s rippling influence, and much more. | Matt Stromberg

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Opportunities in February 2025

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.

The Hyperallergic Art Crossword: February 2025 

Dive into the shortest month of the year with clues on a certain major film fest, Aboriginal painting, art forgery, Ai Weiwei, and more. | Natan Last

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Margot Knight on “Smithsonian Institution to Shutter Diversity Offices

And the government censorship of words—among its own agencies—begins. This round compliance is relatively simple—change one set of words for another and keep acting with the same values and intent. Round 2? Change the D to K. Censorship of works, exhibits and/or certain artists or themes. Or even a divestiture/ deaccessioning of offensive pieces of art. I hope there’s a dive bar in DC where federal curators and museum directors are coordinating a plan for that eventuality.

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