Five Shouts Out

Painting Paradoxes of Family, Race, and Prison

EditorMarch 10, 2019March 10, 2019

Pat Philips, “SubSuperior” at Catinca Tabacaru, installation view (all images courtesy Catinca Tabacaru) Pat Phillips is a 32-year-old painter who has shot straight to the 2019 Whitney Biennial seemingly out...

Art

Artists in Argentina Join a Mass Protest for Women’s Equality

EditorMarch 10, 2019March 10, 2019

The women of Nosotras Proponemos take to the streets for a protest on International Women’s Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) BUENOS AIRES — While...

Animals

Guatemalan Black Howler Monkey

EditorMarch 9, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=22Pg87t_yE8 Audio was taken during a morning walk through Tikal National Park in Guatemala. Images were taken while trekking through Monkey River Wildlife Sanctuary in Belize. Topher Mueller The Guatemalan...

Science

Oh, the Places Mosquitoes Will Go!

EditorMarch 8, 2019March 7, 2019

[caption id="attachment_62050" align="aligncenter" width="940"] A woman walks past a giant fake mosquito placed on top of a bus shelter as part of an awareness campaign about the Zika virus in...

We Humans

Mom’s Positive ‘Review’ Of 2-Month-Old Baby With Down’s Syndrome Goes Viral

EditorMarch 7, 2019March 7, 2019

After difficulties conceiving and a failed round of IVF, Jessica Egan and her husband had been all over the place when they learned they were pregnant. However, 11 weeks into...

Art

Blue sky thinking for the country’s paintings | Letters

EditorMarch 7, 2019March 5, 2019

Readers respond to an article outlining two radically different plans for civic art collections; what inspired Hockney and where his work should be displayed; and the ‘lost’ Caravaggio [caption id="attachment_61621"...