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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=””] Daily Newsletter With a Little Help From My Art Friends Gertrude Abercrombie’s crew of Magic Realists, the artist selling trash from outside Taylor Swift’s wedding, and the truth about stock photography. Hyperallergic July 9, 2026— 3 min read In an art world that often attributes success to individual genius, the story of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=””] Daily Newsletter Looking Up at Constable’s Sky The British painter’s four seasons, the New Museum’s new director, and which Surrealist painter influenced a soccer jersey? Hyperallergic July 8, 2026— 3 min read The World Cup quarterfinals are upon us, and so is the ultimate crossover. Surrealism meets jersey design in an updated…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=””] Daily Newsletter Trump’s Unhinged Attacks on the Smithsonian The White House accuses the public institution of “extreme activism”; plus, an interview with queer icon Carmelita Tropicana. Hyperallergic July 7, 2026— 3 min read In the Trump administration’s latest attack on the Smithsonian Institution, the White House published a 162-page report on July…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=””] Daily Newsletter Inside Akira Ikezoe’s Studio The Whitney Biennial artist on humor and climate change, plus an unsung AbEx painter gets his due. Hyperallergic July 6, 2026— 3 min read Akira Ikezoe’s schematic paintings, on view in the Whitney Biennial and Greater New York, are unmistakably his. Teeming with frogs, robots, and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=””] Daily Newsletter Artists Reclaim Lady Liberty Aruna D’Souza on the iconic monument as a tool of political expression and Ed Simon on the allure and anxiety of the Hudson River School. Hyperallergic July 3, 2026— 3 min read This Fourth of July weekend, we’re sticking to the essentials: water, sunscreen, and art.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=””] Daily Newsletter Venezuelan Artists Come Together Artists share stories of grief and community after deadly earthquakes; plus, Mamdani’s budget for culture in NYC. Hyperallergic July 2, 2026— 3 min read With over 50,000 people still missing in Venezuela after two deadly earthquakes, artists on the ground are mobilizing even as they navigate…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=””] Daily Newsletter Phillip Guston, Lush and Forlorn Also, the Guggenheim Museum union authorizes a strike and new findings on human DNA in cave art. Hyperallergic July 1, 2026— 3 min read What makes Phillip Guston great? In the words of Hyperallergic critic John Yau, it’s his “refusal to separate himself from the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=””] Daily Newsletter If Artists Mapped the World Three shows unravel the politics of cartography. Also, why does a new Messi statue look like … that? Hyperallergic June 30, 2026— 4 min read Can artists counter-map the world? Today, Venezuelan writer Clara Maria Apostolatos explores how artists subvert the fraught practices of cartography…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=””] Daily Newsletter Ed Woodham’s Radical Public Art The artist and educator on queer creativity in the margins, dogs across art history, and a collective tarot-horoscope for Hyperallergic readers. Hyperallergic 2 June 29, 2026— 4 min read As Pride month comes to an end, Ed Woodham is here to remind us that queer…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=””] Daily Newsletter William Kentridge and Lapis Blue Plus, why is Trump meddling in the Venice Architecture Biennale? Hyperallergic June 26, 2026— 4 min read By his own admission, William Kentridge’s studio is a “safe space for stupidity.” This principle has served the indefatigable South African artist well — over the course of…