The museum's unions are protesting the sweeping staff cuts that impacted 47 employees after the institution announced a $10M budget deficit.

The staff cuts will affect both full- and part-time workers across union and non-union roles.

The museum plans to cut staff to address a growing deficit, according to Local 1502, which represents workers including art handlers and curatorial assistants.

A group of artists asked the museum to alter their artwork displays with keffiyehs after the institution failed to take a “clear public moral stance” on Gaza.

“I literally only have the clothes I’m wearing, but that’s the same story as thousands of others,” artist Amir Nikravan told Hyperallergic.

The blaze impacted vegetation surrounding the structure but its staff and collection remained safe, a spokesperson said.

Hyperallergic editors round up the trends and habits we hope will be left behind in 2024 — and those we want to embrace more fully in the new year.

“I was so disappointed that they had changed him out of his orange jumpsuit,” said courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg.

Her sculptural canvases or "erotic topologies” evoked the sinuous rhythms of the natural world and their echoes in the female body.

These standout artworks caught my eye at Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA, Untitled Art, and the new Open Invitational.

Scope Art Show said the work was taken down because it was not part of L Kotler Fine Art’s original proposal.

An AI app you can’t opt out of and buzzy sales reports shroud political uncertainty and hidden costs.

Here are the fairs, exhibitions, and events that should be on your radar, and a few words of traffic advice to keep you sane. 

An artist-run exhibition program, a Lower East Side gallery’s Chelsea outpost, and other recently opened art spots to add to your itinerary.

From Georgia O’Keeffe’s suggestive cabbage to Andrew Wyeth’s cornbread of the everyman, the findings represent a treasure of art and culinary history.

Tonight's top bidder didn't acquire a “part of history” — he bought a banana and a roll of tape.

Ai Weiwei’s artistic interventions, Black artists’ responses to ancient Egypt, and the impressive offerings of El Museo’s 2024 triennial are among our favorite art shows of the moment.

A biography of Andy Warhol’s mother, São Paulo’s Neo-Avant-Garde, resplendent Hokusai works, plus new monographs and catalogs to check out this month.

In these darkest of times, Norma Quintana’s photographic tributes to everyday people dismantle the dehumanizing logic of Trump’s discourse.

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office alleges that the accused individuals targeted museum officials who had “Jewish-sounding” names. 

Jesse Krimes’s rebuke of the US justice system and Anastasia Samoylova’s uncanny images of Florida stir a visceral response in an election defined by cognitive dissonance.

Alvin Ailey, Jesse Krimes, Tina Girouard, Aboriginal bark painting, and more.

Ana Gallardo’s mural at MUAC included offensive descriptions and slurs directed at a shelter for older former sex workers in Mexico City.

Cultural workers say the museum must “end its silence” on Israel’s violence in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank in a new open letter.

The Noguchi Museum in New York City terminated three workers who refused to comply with a dress code policy prohibiting the headscarves.

With stops at sites of significance to Black and Cuban New Yorkers, the artist’s walking performance captures the essence of her practice: harnessing the collective toward a unified vision.

Artists including Leon Golub, Charles Yuen, Naudline Pierre, and Manny Vega are kicking off the fall art season with must-see shows.

The gallery attendants refused to comply with the museum’s new policy, which they told Hyperallergic goes against their own values and those of the institution.

“Best Booth”? No, thank you. This year, we honor the real standouts at the fair, from the shiniest artworks to the most Duchampian.

The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition is preparing to proudly display works that didn’t make it into a popular open-call show at the Brooklyn Museum.

Staff say the dress code policy, which prohibits “political statements,” is anti-Palestinian and goes against the values of the artist whose legacy the museum honors.

Make sure not to miss shows featuring Jenny Holzer, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Huong Dodinh, and others, plus a lot of dogs.

Anne Pasternak was one of four museum leaders whose homes were graffitied with anti-Zionist messages following a heavily policed pro-Palestine protest at the institution.

In the compulsive analysis of the former president’s image, we risk overlooking the mundanity of gun violence and its less mediagenic casualties.

At The Campus, pairings of works by over 80 artists yield unexpected dialogues in classrooms, hallways, a gym, and even a science lab.

From Eva Hesse’s spectacular sculptures to Walton Ford’s fantastic beasts, make sure to catch some of New York’s best shows this July.

This July’s list is short and sweet with titles on artist lofts in New York City, photos of abortion workers by Carmen Winant, a how-to guide for comic artists, and more.

“Artistic merit, while significant, should not take precedence over issues of moral injury and human dignity,” reads a response to issues raised by the National Coalition Against Censorship.

The artist talks about her epic drawings, her work in the AIDS activism collective Gran Fury, and why plants may hold the key to taking back our bodies.

Two Just Stop Oil activists were arrested after spraying the structure with what they say is washable orange cornflour ahead of the summer solstice.

From Niki de Saint Phalle to the subway, time is running out to see some of our favorite art in the city.

“I want my work to have a confessional nature about my life, my identity, and who I am,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic.

The Brazilian artist weaves together archives, family albums, and records of Black suffering to suture a history of Amefricanas.

From street snapshots to resplendent studio photographs, the artist draws us powerfully into her life-long project of bearing witness to her community.

An online map by the National Coalition Against Censorship tracks artists who have faced professional consequences for “invoking Israel or Palestine.”

Joseph Awuah-Darko claims the portrait painter assaulted him on two occasions at a dinner in Ghana in 2021, allegations Wiley denies.

Private chats obtained by the Washington Post show how art-world stakeholders sought to influence Mayor Eric Adams and Columbia leadership.

The Surrealist work, acquired by Argentinian museum founder Eduardo F. Costantini, makes Carrington the most valuable UK-born woman artist on the public market.

Hundreds signed a letter in support of Khánh Nguyên Hoàng Vũ after Oolite Arts removed their work, which referred metaphorically to the phrase “from the river to the sea.”

“No Met Gala while bombs drop in Gaza,” hundreds chanted during a march near the museum.