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Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: March 2024
Look out for pink dolphins and Louis XIV in this maximalist mini crossword.
Bright-Green Banksy Mural Pops Up On Saint Patrick’s Day
Locals believe the work, which aligns with the trimmed limbs of a hedged tree, underscores the current climate crisis.
Fiction and Fact Intermingle at the First Look Film Festival
The Museum of the Moving Image’s annual experimental cinema event features several films that remix archival materials.
Artists Respond to TikTok’s Nebulous Future in the US
A bill that could result in a ban of the platform has moved to the Senate, prompting concerns from content creators who depend on the app.
First Impressions From the 2024 Whitney Biennial
The exhibition that often acts as a barometer of trends and ideas percolating in global art communities has both hits and misses.
How Giuseppe Arcimboldo Made the Familiar Bizarre
The artist’s perplexing paintings should be viewed not as mere visual puzzles, but instantiations of an occult philosophy.
A Slice of Americana Told Through Tapestries
Mary Tooley Parker takes a folk art form that emerged in the mid-19th century and transforms it into a way of recounting life in the 1960s.
A True and Exact History of Queer Indigenous Sovereignty
Miss Chief, artist Kent Monkman’s alter ego, narrates the story of Turtle Island not as a settler allegory but from the perspective of the land itself.
LA Protesters Block Traffic, Chanting “No Oscars During Genocide”
More than 1,000 organizers, artists, and film workers gathered to protest what they see as Hollywood’s silence and complicity with the Israeli government.
That Time Carl Andre Wrote Me a Letter
He copyrighted the letter and ended it with “for your eyes only,” as if to say, don’t even think of showing this to anybody.
At the Getty, Adam and Eve Come Back to Life
After a three-year-long restoration project, Lucas the Elder’s iconic 16th-century panels are back on view at the Los Angeles museum.