Congratulations to our Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian on winning the Rabkin Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award alongside feminist author and critic Lucy Lippard. We’re proud of Hrag and grateful for all the hard work he has put into this publication over the last 15 years. This week is packed with great essays and reviews. Moustafa Bayoumi writes about the unsettling genre of atrocity photography, with which governments archive and catalog their human rights abuses in various prisons and black sites. Meanwhile, in a new Hyperallergic Podcast episode, Hrag discusses art at Guantánamo Bay with guests including Mansoor Adayfi, who was held without trial for almost 15 years at the detention camp. Also, check out our News Editor Valentina Di Liscia’s candid reporting from the Miami art fairs this week. As Hyperallergic Member Kim Dingle wrote to Valentina in the comment section of one of her articles: “Thank you for going there instead of us.” Become a member to join the conversation. I strongly recommend you read Latin American art scholars Juanita Solano Roa and Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano’s scathing opinion essay about a partnership between Art Basel Miami Beach and the infamous banana brand Chiquita (formerly the United Fruit Company). They write: “Chiquita has long profited at the expense of Latin American people, and now it’s profiting again by promoting its brand at a major art fair with deep ties to the region.” There’s much more, as usual, including our list of the best films of 2024, new galleries to explore in New York City, shows to visit in Los Angeles this month, Ralph Lemon, Do Ho Suh, and a year-end edition of the Hyperallergic Art Crossword. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend.
— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
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We hear from Erin L. Thompson, Molly Crabapple, and Mansoor Adayfi, who was detained without charge at the military prison for almost 15 years, on how art is a lifeline for those incarcerated there.
In the dark genre of self-reported atrocity photography, governments take pictures of their crimes and file them away in an act of simultaneous remembering and forgetting. | Moustafa Bayoumi
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An all-woman jury of artists, educators, and curators selected 10 finalists for the $50,000 Bennett Prize, the largest art award for women figurative realist painters. Learn more
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LATEST NEWS
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Hyperallergic contributors including former News Editor Jasmine Weber are among the grantees of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s 2024 Arts Writers Grant.
After Republican backlash, visitors to a Tennessee museum are being asked to sign a waiver before entering an shows that challenge conservative dogma.
- Miami-based gallery L Kotler Fine Art said it had been “forced” to remove a portrait of Donald Trump on view in the Scope Art Show.
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THIS MONTH'S CROSSWORD
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Look back at a year in radical and ridiculous developments in the art world, from Marina Abramović skincare to van Gogh’s “Irises” showing their true colors. | Natan Last
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Museum of the City of New York’s new exhibition features artists like Keith Haring, Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, and Futura 2000. Learn more
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MIAMI ART WEEK
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Here are the fairs, exhibitions, and events that should be on your radar, and a few words of traffic advice to keep you sane. | Valentina Di Liscia
These standout artworks caught my eye at Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA, Untitled Art, and the new Open Invitational. | Valentina Di Liscia
An AI app you can’t opt out of and buzzy sales reports shroud political uncertainty and hidden costs. | Valentina Di Liscia
Chiquita has no place in the arts, let alone at an art fair with deep ties to Latin America. | Juanita Solano Roa and Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano
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IN AND OUT OF NYC |
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An artist-run exhibition program, a Lower East Side gallery’s Chelsea outpost, and other recently opened art spots to add to your itinerary. | Valentina Di Liscia, Rhea Nayyar, and Maya Pontone
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. | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, Hakim Bishara, AX Mina, and Sebastián Meltz-Collazo
Tong Yang-Tze’s “Dialogue” (2024) in the museum’s Great Hall engages with the ancient art form on a monumental level. | Rhea Nayyar
Erica Hauser’s exploration of blue, Stephen Towns’s paradisal quilts, the carnivalesque antics of SHABOOM, and much more. | Taliesin Thomas
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FROM OUR CRITICS
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Blending and blurring his roles as an artist, choreographer, and writer, a survey of Lemon’s art centers his luminous legacy of storytelling, memory, and transformation. | Rebecca Schiffman
His paintings invite us into a layered world we can move around and get lost in, without a destination. | John Yau
While Scrawlspace is a deeply inquisitive and well-researched exhibition, the premises are in some instances cliché and a bit contradictory. | Seph Rodney
The artist’s imaginative, iterative artworks emphasize the loss that accompanies perpetual displacement — even the kind created by art world success. | Claudia Ross
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ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC
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An eclectic round-up spanning feature-length investigative documentaries, avant-garde short films, YouTube essays, and even talk shows. | Eileen G’Sell, Dan Schindel, Hrag Vartanian, and Lisa Yin Zhang
Shiva Ahmadi’s aqueous visions, Dave Smith’s oxymoronic LA, Miller Robinson’s cosmology of survival, the Guerrilla Girls’ first West Coast show, and more. | Matt Stromberg
I am always unfortunately attuned to the manner in which people respond to the color brown. | Rhea Nayyar
This week: the unsolved mystery of an 18th-century portrait, journalists leave X en masse, orcas wear “dead salmon hats,” exorbitant college furniture, a puppy art gallery, and much more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin
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OPPORTUNITIES & GRAD PROGRAMS |
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Residencies, fellowships, grants, open calls, and jobs from Banff Centre, Sculpture Space, Taft Museum of Art, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
Organized by geographic region, a list of arts-related graduate programs to explore and apply to before deadlines close.
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