Maya Pontone

Brooklyn

Staff News Writer, Journalist and Photographer at Hyperallergic

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Articles

Trump’s New Portrait Is as Perverse as His Second Term

3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

Because apparently a gold-framed mugshot, chorus of New York Post covers, and raised-fist propagandist painting weren’t enough, another portrait of President Donald Trump has entered the West Wing. The White House revealed the new addition yesterday, June 2, in an X video scored to music strangely reminiscent of the Austin Powers theme song. It has also since been uploaded to the White House’s website.
A Village’s Living Artwork Goes On Display at The Met

3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City reopened its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing to the press on Wednesday, May 28, the occasion did not just mark the culmination of an extensive and costly four-year renovation project. It was also the first time that Chief Mathew Kuarchinj and Tobi Borungai, Kwoma artists from the Papua New Guinea village of Mariwai, saw the Ceremonial House Ceiling that their elder family members had created over half a century ago.
Lil Nas X Did Not Steal a Photographer's Poses, Court Rules

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

An appeals court recently dismissed a lawsuit brought by a photographer who claimed that rapper Lil Nas X copied poses and artistic concepts used in his Instagram posts. The decision, which affirms that poses in photographs are not copyright protected, is the culmination of a years-long legal battle that began in 2022, when freelance artist and model Rodney Woodland initially filed suit against the musician.
The 2026 Venice Biennale Wants to Cut Through the Noise

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

The Venice Biennale has announced the theme of its 2026 edition, slated to run from May 9 to November 22. Attuned with the late Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh’s vision, In Minor Keys will focus on low harmonies, connective hums, and enduring cadences of song and sound. Before her sudden death earlier this month, Kouoh, who was tapped to curate the 61st Biennale, elucidated her ideas for the theme in a curatorial text.
High School Teacher Reprimanded for Showing Jewish Dissent Poster

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

Just north of Chicago, Evanston residents are campaigning in support of a Jewish high school educator after district leaders asked him to take down a protest print on display in his classroom. Andrew Ginsberg, a longtime social studies teacher at Evanston Township High School District 202, told Hyperallergic in an email that school leaders said they had received a complaint about the poster and instructed him to remove it.
Hit by Federal Grant Losses, NYC Culture Orgs Ask for More City Funding

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

Several dozen New York City arts and culture advocates — including unionized museum workers, public school educators, community nonprofit leaders, visual artists, theater performers, and musicians — rallied in the rain outside City Hall in Manhattan yesterday morning, May 21, to call for increased funding for the sector.
Archaeologists Discover New Style of Ancient Aboriginal Rock Art

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

Archaeologists in Australia have identified a new Aboriginal rock art style in the country’s western territory that dates back to the mid-to-late Holocene age, around 7,000 to 5,000 years ago. In astudy published by the journal Australian Archaeology in February, researchers proposed that zoomorphic rock paintings found in the Kimberley region should be classified as a new type of ancient Aboriginal art dubbed Linear Naturalistic Figures (LNF).
Protesters Rally Outside Israeli Embassy Party at British Museum

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

A slew of politicians, government officials, and public figures rubbed shoulders at the British Museum in London earlier this week for a private ceremony to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel. On Tuesday evening, May 13, the inside walls of the museum’s Great Court were drenched in a cascade of blue and white for the celebration organized by the Israeli Embassy.
When The Subway Sun Ruled NYC’s Underground

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

Decades before the New York City subway cars were lined with advertisements for niche dating apps, personal injury lawyers, prescription weight loss medicines, and alternative internet browsers, the interiors of many of the city’s trains were adorned with editions of the two-toned mock newspaper known as The Subway Sun.
Why Did a Frank Lloyd Wright Lamp Sell for $7.5M?

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Maya Pontone

A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed double-pedestal lamp became the most valuable piece by the famed American architect to sell at auction when it fetched $7.5 million at Sotheby’s modern art evening sale last night, May 13. Following a lively 11-minute bidding battle, the piece both surpassed its high estimate and more than tripled its previous 2002 sale price of $1.98 million, landing with a phone bidder via Sotheby’s Chairman Jodi Pollack.