Art

A series of Taiwanese urbanscapes paintings by Vancouver-based artist Liang Wang. Born in Taiwan, Wang lived in Australia for part of high school, before emigrating to Canada with his family in 2009. In 2019, Wang started painting some Taiwanese street scenes as a way of expressing his love and longing for the streets, the food, and family there. He eventually …

Light, shadows, and linear perspective are just a few of the tricks up photographer Denis Cherim’s sleeve as he captures surprising, well-timed, and occasionally ironic glimpses of daily life (previously). “I seek answers in places hidden in plain sight,” the Madrid-based artist says in a statement. “I feel curiosity about everyday objects with secret desires to be the main character.” …

Reba Maybury works as an artist, writer, lecturer, and dominatrix, often conjoining these diverse outputs thematically, economically, and materially. Such is the case in Faster Than An Erection, 2021, an installation developed upon invitation by MACRO in Rome and now reconstructed at Simian. Maybury instructed a local submissive man to leave impressions of his body on the floor. These marks …

Les-be honest, lady liberty. (screenshot via @CISFAKER on X, all screenshots Hyperallergic) I hate to say it, but when I saw that lubricated hippo go for the Trump cake, I knew it was over. Months ago, I predicted the downfall of Moo Deng, and I’m pleased to say my hypothesis was largely correct: Many on X are now blaming her …

From fanged cats and all-seeing ravens to anthropomorphized botanicals and disembodied faces, Michael McGrath’s uncanny works nod to the symbol-rich, flat compositions of folk art or “naïve” painting. His mixed-media works combine materials like graphite, oil paint and oil stick, ink, and acrylic on a variety of surfaces, including wood, canvas, and burlap. Inspired by the expansive scenes of contemporary …

The “PEPSIS” project is rooted in a primitive drive that the artist calls stylization, a logical phenomenon of simplification that conditions every aspect of our inner and social lives. From learning by imitation to the use of signs and symbols as means for the representation of ideas, stylization reveals the essence of our mindset, focused on influencing the course of …

A few weeks ago, dozens of photographs of the “We Are Our Mountains” (“Tatik-Papik”) monument in occupied Artsakh disappeared from Wikimedia Commons. A red text box emerged, warning against uploading new images in which the monument features prominently, as it is located in “a country that does not provide Wikimedia Commons-acceptable freedom of panorama.” The monument, composed of volcanic tuff …

For Eliot Greenwald, humankind and the landscapes we occupy are essentially one in the same. Cycles of life, death, and rebirth may diverge from being to being, but the artist considers all existence to be fundamentally interconnected and substantially the same. At HARPER’S in Chelsea, Greenwald’s solo exhibition Library continues to explore the artist’s fascination with landscape and the metaphysical, …

The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the radical and experimental nature of Jean Tinguely, one of the artists who shaped the history of 20th century art, and to underline his contemporary relevance and status even today. The show includes a nucleus of 40 works made from the 1950s to the 1990s, which will fill the 5,000 square meters …

United Nations (UN) exhibition staff removed part of a public art exhibition in its General Assembly Lobby in New York City after Israel’s Permanent Representative to the UN Danny Danon condemned references to Palestine contained in some of the works. The exhibition, titled The Global Peace Flag: Uniting the World and on view through November 15, features collaborative quilts made …