Talking Raphael

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Talking Raphael

One-on-one with the curator of a historic Raphael exhibition at The Met, Robert Therrien’s oversized furniture, artists against nuclear weapons, and how to save yourself from AI.

Raphael: Sublime Poetry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is by far the biggest blockbuster of the season here in New York. It’s also the first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael in the United States, bringing into one place more than 170 of his greatest masterpieces, including hits like “Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione” (c. 1514–1515) and “The Alba Madonna” (c. 1510), alongside a trove of sketches and studies. Today we speak with the woman behind the show, longtime curator Carmen C. Bambach, to get a glimpse into the making of this exceptional exhibition.

Also in this edition: a tour through a Robert Therrien exhibition at The Broad in Los Angeles, the artist collective that fights against nuclear armament, A View From the Easel, and two new documentaries offering tips on how to save ourselves from AI.

—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief


Detail of Raphael, “Saint Sebastian in Half Length” (c. 1502–3), tempera grassa and oil, with gold highlights, on wood (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)

Inside the Met Museum’s Historic Raphael Exhibition

“Asking for Raphael loans is like asking for the firstborn heir of the royal family,” Carmen C. Bambach, curator of the first comprehensive show of the master in the US, told Hyperallergic.


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Former Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition Artists are Biennale-Bound

The Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition (PCSE), presented by The Helis Foundation, is proud to congratulate former artists Dawn DeDeaux and Kennedy Yanko on their selection for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Click below and learn more about PCSE, The Helis Foundation, and its mission.

Learn more


News

General view of the Natural History Museum in London, England, which holds 11,856 non-European human remains (photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
  • Museums and institutions in the United Kingdom hold more than 263,000 items of human remains, according to a recent investigation by the Guardian.
  • Marica Vilcek, a champion of immigrant artists and scientists, has died at the age of 89. 

A Closer Look

Robert Therrien, “Under the Table” (1994) (photos Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic)

Taking a Seat at Robert Therrien’s Table

The Broad invites us into the late artist’s obsessively iterative practice, where oversized tables and chairs give way to more elusive, personal forms. | Matt Stromberg


From Our Critics

Still from elin o’Hara slavick (with Madeline Richardson), “Holding History in Our Hand” (2024), video (photo Christopher Wormald, courtesy Pitzer College Art Galleries)

How Photography Helped Build the Atomic Bomb

A group of intergenerational artists, collectively known as Slow War Against the Nuclear State, investigates the afterlife of nuclear politics in a haunting, timely exhibition. | Austen Villacis

How to Survive AI

The documentaries “Ghost in the Machine” and “The AI Doc” both end in calls to action, but arrive there in different ways. | Kathy Ou


Member Comment

Souhad Rafey on John Yau’s “Why I Wanted to Meet Thaddeus Mosley”:

I was grateful to hear Thaddeus Mosley in conversation with Jenée Daria Strand five months ago, at Cooper Union. What an inspiration he was, “touching the earth” in immeasurable ways.

A View From the Easel

Linda Jacobson’s studio in Venice, California (courtesy the artist)

In this edition, artist Linda Jacobson from Westchester, New York, listens to their paint, and Georgina Arroyo from Venice, California, creates molds out of high-heeled shoes.

Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.


ICYMI

Installation view of Frida and Diego: The Last Dream (© The Museum of Modern Art, New York; photo Jonathan Dorado, courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Frida-Mania Hits MoMA

A collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera’s costume designer, this exhibition is an irresistible marketing opportunity at best. | Néstor David Pastor López


Daily Newsletter

Talking Raphael

One-on-one with the curator of a historic Raphael exhibition at The Met, Robert Therrien’s oversized furniture, artists against nuclear weapons, and how to save yourself from AI.

Raphael: Sublime Poetry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is by far the biggest blockbuster of the season here in New York. It’s also the first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael in the United States, bringing into one place more than 170 of his greatest masterpieces, including hits like “Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione” (c. 1514–1515) and “The Alba Madonna” (c. 1510), alongside a trove of sketches and studies. Today we speak with the woman behind the show, longtime curator Carmen C. Bambach, to get a glimpse into the making of this exceptional exhibition.

Also in this edition: a tour through a Robert Therrien exhibition at The Broad in Los Angeles, the artist collective that fights against nuclear armament, A View From the Easel, and two new documentaries offering tips on how to save ourselves from AI.

—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief


Detail of Raphael, “Saint Sebastian in Half Length” (c. 1502–3), tempera grassa and oil, with gold highlights, on wood (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)

Inside the Met Museum’s Historic Raphael Exhibition

“Asking for Raphael loans is like asking for the firstborn heir of the royal family,” Carmen C. Bambach, curator of the first comprehensive show of the master in the US, told Hyperallergic.


SPONSORED
CTA Image

Former Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition Artists are Biennale-Bound

The Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition (PCSE), presented by The Helis Foundation, is proud to congratulate former artists Dawn DeDeaux and Kennedy Yanko on their selection for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Click below and learn more about PCSE, The Helis Foundation, and its mission.

Learn more


News

General view of the Natural History Museum in London, England, which holds 11,856 non-European human remains (photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
  • Museums and institutions in the United Kingdom hold more than 263,000 items of human remains, according to a recent investigation by the Guardian.
  • Marica Vilcek, a champion of immigrant artists and scientists, has died at the age of 89. 

A Closer Look

Robert Therrien, “Under the Table” (1994) (photos Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic)

Taking a Seat at Robert Therrien’s Table

The Broad invites us into the late artist’s obsessively iterative practice, where oversized tables and chairs give way to more elusive, personal forms. | Matt Stromberg


From Our Critics

Still from elin o’Hara slavick (with Madeline Richardson), “Holding History in Our Hand” (2024), video (photo Christopher Wormald, courtesy Pitzer College Art Galleries)

How Photography Helped Build the Atomic Bomb

A group of intergenerational artists, collectively known as Slow War Against the Nuclear State, investigates the afterlife of nuclear politics in a haunting, timely exhibition. | Austen Villacis

How to Survive AI

The documentaries “Ghost in the Machine” and “The AI Doc” both end in calls to action, but arrive there in different ways. | Kathy Ou


Member Comment

Souhad Rafey on John Yau’s “Why I Wanted to Meet Thaddeus Mosley”:

I was grateful to hear Thaddeus Mosley in conversation with Jenée Daria Strand five months ago, at Cooper Union. What an inspiration he was, “touching the earth” in immeasurable ways.

A View From the Easel

Linda Jacobson’s studio in Venice, California (courtesy the artist)

In this edition, artist Linda Jacobson from Westchester, New York, listens to their paint, and Georgina Arroyo from Venice, California, creates molds out of high-heeled shoes.

Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.


ICYMI

Installation view of Frida and Diego: The Last Dream (© The Museum of Modern Art, New York; photo Jonathan Dorado, courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Frida-Mania Hits MoMA

A collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera’s costume designer, this exhibition is an irresistible marketing opportunity at best. | Néstor David Pastor López


Raphael: Sublime Poetry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is by far the biggest blockbuster of the season here in New York. It’s also the first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael in the United States, bringing into one place more than 170 of his greatest masterpieces, including hits like “Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione” (c. 1514–1515) and “The Alba Madonna” (c. 1510), alongside a trove of sketches and studies. Today we speak with the woman behind the show, longtime curator Carmen C. Bambach, to get a glimpse into the making of this exceptional exhibition.

Also in this edition: a tour through a Robert Therrien exhibition at The Broad in Los Angeles, the artist collective that fights against nuclear armament, A View From the Easel, and two new documentaries offering tips on how to save ourselves from AI.

—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief


Detail of Raphael, “Saint Sebastian in Half Length” (c. 1502–3), tempera grassa and oil, with gold highlights, on wood (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)

Inside the Met Museum’s Historic Raphael Exhibition

“Asking for Raphael loans is like asking for the firstborn heir of the royal family,” Carmen C. Bambach, curator of the first comprehensive show of the master in the US, told Hyperallergic.


SPONSORED
CTA Image

Former Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition Artists are Biennale-Bound

The Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition (PCSE), presented by The Helis Foundation, is proud to congratulate former artists Dawn DeDeaux and Kennedy Yanko on their selection for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Click below and learn more about PCSE, The Helis Foundation, and its mission.

Learn more


News

General view of the Natural History Museum in London, England, which holds 11,856 non-European human remains (photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
  • Museums and institutions in the United Kingdom hold more than 263,000 items of human remains, according to a recent investigation by the Guardian.
  • Marica Vilcek, a champion of immigrant artists and scientists, has died at the age of 89. 

A Closer Look

Robert Therrien, “Under the Table” (1994) (photos Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic)

Taking a Seat at Robert Therrien’s Table

The Broad invites us into the late artist’s obsessively iterative practice, where oversized tables and chairs give way to more elusive, personal forms. | Matt Stromberg


From Our Critics

Still from elin o’Hara slavick (with Madeline Richardson), “Holding History in Our Hand” (2024), video (photo Christopher Wormald, courtesy Pitzer College Art Galleries)

How Photography Helped Build the Atomic Bomb

A group of intergenerational artists, collectively known as Slow War Against the Nuclear State, investigates the afterlife of nuclear politics in a haunting, timely exhibition. | Austen Villacis

How to Survive AI

The documentaries “Ghost in the Machine” and “The AI Doc” both end in calls to action, but arrive there in different ways. | Kathy Ou


Member Comment

Souhad Rafey on John Yau’s “Why I Wanted to Meet Thaddeus Mosley”:

I was grateful to hear Thaddeus Mosley in conversation with Jenée Daria Strand five months ago, at Cooper Union. What an inspiration he was, “touching the earth” in immeasurable ways.

A View From the Easel

Linda Jacobson’s studio in Venice, California (courtesy the artist)

In this edition, artist Linda Jacobson from Westchester, New York, listens to their paint, and Georgina Arroyo from Venice, California, creates molds out of high-heeled shoes.

Want to take part? Check out our submission guidelines and share a bit about your studio with us through this form! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio.


ICYMI

Installation view of Frida and Diego: The Last Dream (© The Museum of Modern Art, New York; photo Jonathan Dorado, courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Frida-Mania Hits MoMA

A collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera’s costume designer, this exhibition is an irresistible marketing opportunity at best. | Néstor David Pastor López


Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists

Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists

Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school’s graduating students. MFA and BFA work is on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York.

Pratt Institute
NYU Steinhardt Presents 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibitions

NYU Steinhardt Presents 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibitions

Part I: April 1–18, Part II: May 6–23. On view at 80WSE Gallery in New York’s Greenwich Village.

NYU Steinhardt
Take Your Practice Further in a Visual Arts Residency at Banff Centre

Take Your Practice Further in a Visual Arts Residency at Banff Centre

Engage with leading contemporary faculty, access exceptional studios, and develop your practice in Banff’s inspiring mountain setting.

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Vilcek Foundation to Award $200,000 in Grants to Nonprofits Uplifting Immigrant Contributions

Vilcek Foundation to Award $200,000 in Grants to Nonprofits Uplifting Immigrant Contributions

The foundation invites grant applications from mission-aligned nonprofit organizations in the arts and sciences by April 30, 2026.

The Vilcek Foundation

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