Maya Pontone

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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).