The Best of hyperallergic
10+ most popular hyperallergic articles, as voted by our community.
hyperallergic on Art
Raphael Between Heaven and Earth
The Renaissance master was boundlessly ambitious and intimidatingly energetic, charming, good-looking, diplomatic, and utterly opportunistic.
An Artist's Cardboard Shrine of Moments
Detroit’s Huckleberry Explorer’s Club, founded by Stefany Anne Golberg, monumentalizes the bits of existence that linger beneath the quotidian.
hyperallergic on Bible
When a Bible’s Not a Bible
There’s no evidence at all that a small, engraved, gold bead found in Yorkshire is intended to represent a Bible.
hyperallergic on Essentialism
How the Louvre Codified Essentialism in Art History
The art historical meta-narrative canonized by the Louvre Museum converts all artworks into specimens of their cultural moment. No wall tag can fix this.
hyperallergic on Film
Tired of Netflix? Stream Experimental Films and Video Art
We reached out to artists, filmmakers, and Hyperallergic contributors to assemble a list of what we’ve been sharing on our networks, after finding inspiration in Kate Lain’s “Cabin Fever” playlist.
hyperallergic on Humor
Computer-Generated New Yorker Cartoons Are Delightfully Weird
The palimpsestic drawings and irreverent captions dissolve into senselessness, upending the ubiquitous cartoon medium.
hyperallergic on LGBTQIA
The Astonishing Discovery of an Artist’s 9,200 Portraits of an Alternate Queer Self
The previously unknown Polaroids of April Dawn Alison were not just snatched from the jaws of oblivion, but are now in an esteemed museum collection.
hyperallergic on Minimalism
Daniel Senise’s Complex Minimalism
At first glance, Senise’s paintings appear coolly cerebral but standing close to the canvas’s surface we can observe that they are teeming with detail.
hyperallergic on Religion
The Art World’s Catholic Problem
What feels like the right way to write about Roman Catholicism, or Christian iconography, to most art critics is heavily influenced by museum discourse, which is far from neutral.
hyperallergic on Typography
The Typography of Change
An exhibition at San Francisco’s Letterform Archive highlights typography’s role in iconic social movements from the 1800s through the present.
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Rethinking Kandinsky
The problem with many of Kandinsky’s abstractions is that they don’t offer enough immediate visual information to “crack” his expressive code for color and form.
A Brief History of Women's Eyebrows in Art
Since antiquity, women’s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles.
What Our Fantasies About the European “Middle Ages” Say About Us
An exhibition depicts how people have reimagined the medieval period in the centuries since, and how they have revealed their own interests and ideals with each new interpretation.
Otters Are Art History’s Unsung Muses
From ancient times to the present day, join us as we pay tribute to these otter-ly charismatic creatures in various visual media.
Smithsonian Acquires Taxidermy of First Successfully Cloned Mouse
Cumulina was created in 1997 by researchers at the University of Hawai’i and taxidermied by a local high school teacher.
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