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5 days ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Jasmine Weber |Alexis Clements |Daniel Larkin
“He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers how to see. And once you’ve had that experience, you see differently.” That’s writer James Baldwin reflecting in an 1984 interview on his late mentor Beauford Delaney, the queer Black painter who introduced the young writer to New York City and opened up for him a new way to see the world.
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5 days ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Jasmine Weber |Alexis Clements |Daniel Larkin
Posted inGuide Dig into new and upcoming tomes on the long lineage of LGBTQ+ art, from Beauford Delaney’s bond with James Baldwin to iconic lesbian photographer JEB and Alice Austen.
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2 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lisa Zhang |John Yau |Daniel Larkin |Mána Taylor
The artists we’re highlighting this week have diverse practices, ranging from the earthy, unglazed ceramics of Stanley Rosen to the complex, multicolored tapestries of Kenny Nguyen to the embroidered textile-photographs of Spandita Malik, but all share a desire to express personal preoccupations, personalities, and concerns through their art.
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2 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lisa Zhang |John Yau |Daniel Larkin |Mána Taylor
Posted inArt Review From ceramic alligators to Nordic traditions, artists focusing on personal concerns and identity are making some fascinating work.
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3 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
The stress of 2025 is no doubt taking a physical toll — so it’s timely that New York University’s MFA cohort is reckoning with their bodies in the second part of their senior thesis show. This exhibition is not preoccupied with body image, nor restating the obvious about social media-induced dysphoria. It’s more about coming up with novel ways to think about the bodies we inhabit, the stresses they carry, and what they can and can’t perceive.
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4 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
PARIS — Long lionized as the first breakthrough painter of the early Renaissance, Cimabue has rarely been the subject of monographic exhibitions. With only 12 works securely attributed to him currently, many of which are too fragile to travel, a full retrospective remains a logistical impossibility. For this reason, A New Look at Cimabue at the Louvre offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to see numerous works by this legendary artist in a single room.
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4 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
Posted inArt Review The Louvre’s conservation of two Cimabue paintings led its curators to reassess the artist not as a predecessor to the Renaissance masters but on his own merits.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
In the second part of Pratt College’s MFA Fine Arts Thesis exhibition at its new Brooklyn Navy Yard satellite space, Mouet surprises viewers with a warped canvas. The plywood and poplar structure can be flexible, but also hold this unorthodox shape, subverting the convention of the flat canvas, as well as mirroring the distortedness of our current media, political, and economic climate.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Daniel Larkin
Joshua Evans’s “Fantasia” (2024) sums up how many of us are feeling right now. The figure is mid-metamorphosis — but doesn’t appear to have much of a choice or to be enjoying it that much. Despite his lack of fully-formed feet, and the uncertainty and gloom surrounding him, the figure trudges the path ahead. “He is trying to negotiate who he is going to be… but it’s not entirely clear yet,” Evans explained to Hyperallergic.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |Julia Curl |Daniel Larkin |Julie Schneider
From jobs to clothing to colors, and more, there’s a lot of variety in our list this week. While our critics are enjoying historical shows focused on labor in the United States and women’s workaday clothes, an exhibition that proposes different ways of looking at color is well worth a visit, as is one that brings together conceptual works by four longtime collaborators. And who can resist John Singer Sargent’s bewitching portrait “Madame X,” on view in The Met’s newly opened Sargent and Paris?
