Click Here to Read: How Eva Hesse Embraced Absurdity in Life and Art: In this exclusive clip from the documentary Eva Hesse, Lucy Lippard, Nancy Holt, and others reflect on the intimate character of Hesse’s sculptures by Benjamin Sutton on the HyperAllergic on August 28, 2017.
Category: Art
Mourning a Legacy of Racial Violence
Proust and Gauguin on Art
Mapping the Mysterious Ancient Carvings of Naked Women Across Ireland
The Early-20th-Century Painter Who Captured Solar Eclipses
Eclipses, Comets, and Dragons in a 16th-Century Chinese Text
Click Here to Read: Eclipses, Comets, and Dragons in a 16th-Century Chinese Text: A manuscript compendium from China, currently available for purchase from Jonatha A. Hill, Bookseller, records prognostications related to astronomic phenomena, including the possible meanings of eclipses by Jonathan A. Hill on the HyperAllergic website on August 16, 2017.
Damien Hirst’s Shipwreck Fantasy Sinks in Venice
Another reactionary attack on artist Dana Schutz, this time in Boston—and a healthy response
Why Edvard Munch Began Painting Portraits of the Soul
Click Here to Read: Why Edvard Munch Began Painting Portraits of the Soul: An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art illustrates how, over time, Munch moved away from observational painting toward something more symbolic and emotional by Bridget Quinn on the HyperAllergic website on July 7, 2017.