Good morning. In the last few days, you may have come across and even chuckled at a seemingly endless outpouring of JD Vance memes...
| Good morning. In the last few days, you may have come across and even chuckled at a seemingly endless outpouring of JD Vance memes — y’ know, the ones depicting our sad excuse of a vice president in Michelin Man-esque guises as absurd as the caterpillar in A Bug’s Life. But are we falling back into a retrograde trap of gender-based and body-shaming tropes? As Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar warns in her analysis today, “This brand of surface-level humor is too apathetic, a lukewarm coping mechanism meant to turn our biggest threats into digestible jokes.” In the news, the ACLU is suing the National Endowment for the Arts over its compliance with Trump’s “unconstitutionally vague” and anti-trans concept of “gender ideology.” And with workers at the Brooklyn Museum facing sweeping layoffs, union members, city officials, and supporters rallied outside the institution yesterday in the hopes that leadership might walk back the cuts. Hyperallergic has been closely following both of these stories over the past month. If you have tips or information, you can always write to us at tips@hyperallergic.com — we promise to respect your anonymity. Also below, don’t miss A View From the Easel, Required Reading, and the cheese puff shaped like a Pokémon that sold for over $87,000. Cheeto, I choose you!!! — Valentina Di Liscia, News Editor | | |
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| | If we’re serious about the “resistance,” we’re gonna have to do a little better than early 2000s-caliber fat-shaming. | Rhea Nayyar |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Hurukuro, a two-person exhibition curated by Augusto Arbizo, brings together the work of two contemporary Zimbabwean artists to establish a personal and quietly potent dialogue. Bumhira and Chihota reflect on themes of intimacy, domesticity, and the body, using the language of the everyday to explore the intersections of personal and collective histories. Learn more |
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LATEST REVIEWS | | | This photo history of plants tackles the problem of how to pull ourselves out of the blind, anthropocentric march toward climate disaster. |
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SPONSORED | | | | | Discover the artistry and intrigue of fashion’s past and present in this immersive exhibition at The Museum at FIT. Learn more |
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| | Her research-based paintings close the gap between subject matter and material by depicting natural phenomena via the elements that comprise them. | Sigourney Schultz |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | “I love that I have a studio — that is a seriously magnificent fact.” | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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| | | 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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TRANSITIONS | | Enrico David is now represented by White Cube gallery in collaboration with Michael Werner gallery.
Bernd Ebert was appointed general director of the Dresden State Art Collections (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden – SKD).
Karel Funk is now represented by Miles McEnery Gallery.
Shaunté Gates is now represented by Marc Straus Gallery.
Benjamin Levy was appointed curator of Works on Paper at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University. Keaton Evans-Black was appointed Arts-based Wellness Experiences manager.
Matthew Lutton was appointed artistic director of the Adelaide Festival.
Bradley Wood is now represented by Jane Lombard Gallery.
Mika Yoshitake was named senior curatorial director at BLUM gallery. |
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AWARDS & ACCOLADES | | Gridthiya Gaweewong is the 2025 recipient of the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Amber Esseiva received the CCS Bard Alumni Award.
Rubén Guerrero was selected for the Meadows/ARCO Artist Spotlight program by Fundación ARCO and the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist Museum in Texas.
Liu Jiakun received the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Máret Ánne Sara received the Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
Paula Wilson won the 2024 Ree Kaneko Award from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. |
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