Hakim Bishara

New York

Senior Editor at Hyperallergic

Writer, curator, artist

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Articles

Frieze New York Is Back to Its Old Ways

6 days 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.
We Are the New Romantics

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Hakim Bishara

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Are we having a Romantic moment?
10 Art Books for Your March 2025 Reading List

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Hakim Bishara |Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lisa Zhang |Bridget J. Quinn |Hannah Bonner

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. So you think you know Mucha? Printmaking? The ravenous classism of the art world? This month, our editors and contributors invite you to question what you think you know.
Anne Imhof’s Armory Performance Is a Bad Balenciaga Ad

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Hakim Bishara

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Anne Imhof’s three-hour performance at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan is overwhelmingly infantile, comically apolitical, excessively pessimistic about the future, and tragically hollow beneath all the hype.
7 NYC Shows and a Trove of Online Art to See January 2025

Jan 17, 2025 | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Natalie Haddad |Hakim Bishara |Lisa Zhang |Julie Schneider

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Whether you’re trying to beat the winter blahs or enjoy the rare moments of midwinter sunshine, there’s plenty of compelling art to see in New York City’s museums and galleries.
10 Old Art Books to Read in the New Year

Jan 12, 2025 | hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lisa Zhang |Hakim Bishara |Hrag Vartanian |Natalie Haddad

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Even though my poor shelf is sagging under the weight of overdue library books and unread novels, I cannot resist a “most-anticipated” list when I see one. But this month, our editors decided to rifle through copies of old art books — or, rather, books publishers deem as such — to unearth titles worth rereading.
Eight New York City Art Shows to Kick Off the New Year

Jan 3, 2025 | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Hakim Bishara |AX Mina |Seph Rodney |Julie Schneider |Daniel Larkin

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. It’s 2025 and time to start a new year of exploring art — and there’s already plenty to see.
Art World Dos and Don’ts for 2025

Dec 30, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Valentina Di Liscia |Hakim Bishara |Hrag Vartanian |Lisa Zhang

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. As committed chroniclers of the proverbial “art world” — an imperfect term denoting the ecosystem of artists, institutions, and other entities that make the visual art planet go ’round — we at Hyperallergic have noticed a few patterns emerge over the years. For example, why are museums getting so expensive?
Ai Weiwei Knocks Down the Building Blocks of Empire

Dec 27, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Hakim Bishara

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. All great empires rise gradually: brick by brick, wall by wall, fort by fort, war by war, plunder by plunder. And when they fall, they don’t just disappear in a puff of smoke. They dissolve slowly and painfully: year by year, decade by decade, century by century, coup by coup, revolt by revolt.
Six New York City Shows to See Over the Holidays

Dec 25, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Natalie Haddad |Hakim Bishara

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. The holidays are busy, but everyone needs a break, and what better way to replenish your mind and soul than to see some art? Below are a few shows to catch when you can slip away from all the chaos and take a moment, or more, to revel in the gifts of art.