Hakim Bishara

4 days ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Hakim Bishara |Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Monica Uszerowicz

Artist’s voices aren’t always easy to listen to. Sometimes it’s because they’re speaking to uncomfortable realities that shape our societies and lives. In other cases, the art may be part of that uncomfortable reality, reflecting rather than critiquing harmful perspectives. The solo exhibitions below all represent artists with strong individual visions and voices, some more problematic than enlightening, but all thought provoking.

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Hakim Bishara

They said it in the nineties, said it in the aughts, and say it again today: Art criticism is in crisis! They say it because full-time art criticism jobs in legacy media have become scarce; negative reviews are harder to come by; and nobody reads reviews anymore, now that the internet has turned every Jack, Jill, and Joe into a casual critic. Countless think pieces and books have pronounced art criticism a near-extinct genre.

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Hakim Bishara

“Oh, I looove her!” I hear a woman in a striped suit gushabout Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens, whose large glass piece “Pinky Sunset R” (2021) is currently on view at Esther Schipper gallery’s booth at Frieze New York. “Ugh,” she grunts with elation. “This!” she points back at the piece as she walks past it, “this is the stuff!” But the woman and her interlocutor zoom off, not stopping to get a better look at the $90,000 glass artwork, let alone purchase it.

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Hakim Bishara |Valentina Di Liscia |Natalie Haddad |Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lisa Zhang | +4 more

Flipping through a volume with a bit of sand in its spine, basking in sun, and in no rush — this is how we were meant to read art books. With summer around the corner and visions of balmy parks swimming in our heads, we decided to compile a non-exhaustive list of summer art reads. Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad takes a look at a new biography of Yoko Ono, while Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian uncovers nuggets of wisdom in a reissue of Jack Whitten’s studio notebook.

Mar 10, 2025 | hyperallergic.com | Hakim Bishara

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