Rhea Nayyar

1 day ago | hyperallergic.com | Rhea Nayyar

British sculptor Thomas J. Price’s 12-foot-tall bronze statue “Grounded in the Stars” (2023), which monumentalizes a casually dressed Black woman with her hands on her hips, has sparked immense online discussion since it was installed smack-dab in the center of Times Square on April 29.On a rainy Wednesday morning, Hyperallergic set out to hear from people seeing the artwork in person, and their thoughts were considerably different from much of the digital discourse.

1 day ago | hyperallergic.com | Rhea Nayyar

As artists and activists continue to organize against the building of new jails in New York City as part of a project to close the notorious and deadly Rikers Island facility, public records reviewed by Hyperallergic show that the art collective For Freedoms received first-phase approval for a series of artworks intended for the forthcoming detention center in Downtown Brooklyn.

3 days ago | hyperallergic.com | Rhea Nayyar

Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh, who was selected to lead the 2026 Venice Biennale, died suddenly at the age of 57 on Saturday, May 10. Her husband, Philippe Mall, confirmed with the New York Times that Kouoh’s death was attributed to her recent cancer diagnosis. Appointed as the next Venice Biennale’s artistic director in December, Kouoh would have been the first African woman to oversee the international exhibition, whose theme and title she was reportedly slated to announce on May 20.

3 days ago | hyperallergic.com | Rhea Nayyar

Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh, who was selected to lead the 2026 Venice Biennale, died suddenly at the age of 57 on Saturday, May 10. Her husband, Philippe Mall, confirmed with the New York Times that Kouoh’s death was attributed to her recent cancer diagnosis. Appointed as the next Venice Biennale’s artistic director in December, Kouoh would have been the first African woman to oversee the international exhibition, whose theme and title she was reportedly slated to announce on May 20.

6 days ago | hyperallergic.com | Rhea Nayyar

Tuning out the din of fad-hunting throughout Frieze Week, a New York exhibition re-awakens a late feminist sculptor’s embodiments of human migration — both primordial and present. Mary Ann Unger, who died in 1998 at age 53 after a battle with breast cancer, left a crucial legacy of biomorphic sculptures and related drawings, as seen in a solo exhibition at Berry Campbell gallery in Chelsea, on view through May 17.