Diaries of a Primitive Man

Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings stick in your mind. They are memorable and congenial. When I went to Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, the first major survey of his work in more than 30 years, at the Whitney Museum, I expected to be surprised by something new the curators dug up in their research into the sources of many of the more than 130 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints on view. I was not initially disappointed. | John Yau

The beauty of the Native artist’s forms seduces, but the visual history of destruction is embedded into each element. | Hrag Vartanian

I wonder what the women standing perpetually accused and anonymous might say about the sale of their stolen images. | Channelle Chevelle Russell

His syncretic style melds Pop Art’s cool, outlined forms with expressionism’s figural distortions, resulting in a perturbing ambiguity. | John Yau

The late novelist and art critic asked Tom Overton to wait to write his biography until after his death. The result is deeply informative, deferential, and perceptive, sometimes lyrically so. | Megan O’Grady

A team of researchers excavates the story of Earl Stendahl, a mid-century gallerist who shamelessly stole ancient Mesoamerican objects and marketed them to the institutional art world. | Armando Pulido

Artists, filmmakers, poets, and the art market itself still bear traces of the Dutch painter’s influence, writes historian Ruth Bernard Yeazell in “Vermeer’s Afterlives.” | Lauren Moya Ford

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Diné artist talks about his recent performances at the Park Avenue Armory, the freedom of improvisation, and the privilege of “deep listening.” | Phillip Pyle

The former Navajo Nation president running for Congress in Arizona speaks to Hyperallergic about his upbringing, how Diné culture shapes his political thinking, and the importance of historical memory. | Valentina Di Liscia

Ahead of her memoir’s release, we talk to Joan Kron about Andy Warhol, beating Sidney Janis to the punch, and why she calls herself a “renegade housewife” of Pop Art. | Isabella Segalovich

A Nationwide Day of Action on October 8 gathered artists, activists, and survivors in a collective call for institutions to hold abusers accountable. | Emma Cieslik

“I genuinely want any child that walks through this door to be and feel protected,” the East New York-raised artist told Hyperallergic.| Rhea Nayyar

“Every opportunity to show my work is a platform to raise attention on the struggle for self-determination and cultural resistance of the Shipibo people,” the artist told Hyperallergic. | Eileen G’Sell

Artist agents are not the panacea we imagine them to be, but AI agents won’t solve all your problems, either. Paddy Johnson breaks it down. | Paddy Johnson

“Here, I am allowed to play, to not know the answers, to let the message evolve on its own timing.”

In shows coinciding with Indigenous Peoples’ Day, artists including Jeremy Dennis, Shelley Niro, and Sarah Sense chart Native history and futurity. | Rhea Nayyar

Documentaries on a giant pencil that became a local watering hole, the afterlife of Frida Kahlo through her image, and collagist Romare Bearden are among the festival’s most enticing offerings. | Anna Lee

From activist art and trans aesthetics to lowriders, global skateboarding culture, and Vilém Flusser’s prescient vision of the screen age.

A three-year program for artists critically and experimentally engaging with media, technology, and contemporary culture.

Southern artists can apply now to show in Lake City, SC, where the whole town becomes a gallery April 15 - May 1, 2027.

Curated by Mia Lopez, 16 artists transform everyday objects into bold explorations of Latinx identity. On view in San Antonio from October 16 through March 7, 2027.

The concurrent emergence of cinema and X-ray technology radically transformed how we see and understand the human body.

Celebrating the artistic voices of Asia and its diaspora, the fair brings new and returning international galleries together in Paris this October.