Art and Society

Hyperallergic - A hand darkened with soot struggles to grab falling lead ingots in Richard Serra’s three-minute film “Catching Lead” (1969). Sometimes the hand is victorious in capturing the commodity, but ofte...

Hyperallergic -   Though it has been 25 years since her untimely demise, Diana, Princess of Wales, remains a venerated figure within the contemporary British monarchy. Among her many iconic attributes, Princess...

Hyperallergic -  The grotesquely large phallus belongs to the fertility god Priapus, a tragic figure in Roman mythology. - read more ...

Hyperallergic -  The state approved Proposition 28, which will provide around $1 billion annually to fund art and music education in schools. - read more ...

Hyperallergic - This morning, November 15, the climate emergency activism group Letzte Generation’s Austrian branch took to the Leopold Museum in Vienna for another demonstration in the recent wave of substance...

DOMUS  - It may not be The City That Never Sleeps or the Ville Lumière, but Berlin is still the largest, best-known, best-loved and most imitated city in Germany (itself the largest economy in Europe), and seei...

NY TIMES -  An art taboo is falling, from the Whitney Museum to the Armory Show to blue-chip galleries. Yet artists acknowledge self-censorship on the topic. - read more ...

Hyperallergic - Phishers reportedly hacked into the Twitter account of digital artist Mike Winkelmann, who goes by the artist name Beeple and who skyrocketed to fame after selling a non-fungible token (NFT) for...