Drawings of Fantastical Flora Adapted from Advertising
Specimens from Anne Percoco, Parallel Botany: The Study of Imaginary Plants (2017) (courtesy the artist) In many urban areas, you’re as likely to experience representations […]
When Chairs Become Extraordinary Sculptures
Installation view, When Attitudes Become Chairs, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus (all images courtesy of the Pizzuti Collection) COLUMBUS, Ohio — When does a chair become […]
67 Of The Best Travel Photos Of 2018
2016 and 2017 treated us with quite a few breathtaking travel photography shots, and 2018 is no exception. The jury of the Travel Photographer […]
Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the Space Race
Ded Moroz on a flying carpet (All images courtesy Katya Zykova, soviet-postcards.com unless otherwise noted) Santa, poised over the mission control center, peering at […]
Photo gallery: Stunning images of indigenous peoples in their traditional splendor
Jimmy Nelson has gone all over the earth to photograph native peoples at their proudest moments and to show you their soul. “This is […]
A Mural Reimagines the History of a 19th-Century Tongan Club
Still from Walking Backwards into the Future (courtesy Anna Weinreich) The 19th-century clubs from Tonga now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of […]
Ron English Plans to Whitewash a $730,000 Banksy, and then Sell It
Banksy’s “Slave Labour (Bunting Boy)” mural as it appeared in May 2012 (via Wikimedia Commons) American street artist Ron English has announced his plans to […]
How Mexican and Chincanx Activism Flourished in 20th-Century Los Angeles
Installation view, Regeneración: Three Generations of Revolutionary Ideology at Vincent Price Art Museum (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — “La […]
A Hybrid Museum-Hotel Sets Up in Kansas City With an Exhibition as Refuge
One in a trio of Stephanie Syjuco’s tiny sets, Applicant Photos (Migrants), detail view. Part of Refuge at the 21c Museum Hotel in Kansas […]
Activism Takes Center Stage in Sophia Dawson’s Art
Sophia Dawson holding a painting of her son, Lower East Side, Manhattan (all images © Ilana Herzig) Sophia Dawson’s paint-spattered army green jumpsuit and […]
Larry Fink Illuminates the Drama of Boxing
Larry Fink, “Champs Gym, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania” (February 1993), promised gift of the Tony Podesta Collection, Washington DC (© LarryFink) PHILADELPHIA — Just to the right of […]
Italian Painting, Before the Fall
Mario Sironi, “Composizione con elica (Composition with Propeller)” (1919), tempera and collage on board, 29 5/16 × 24 3/16 inches, Mattioli Collection, Italy, © […]