From quirky ceramics and pet portraits to prints and tufted rugs, peruse our list of presents for this season and beyond.

Extraordinary discoveries, rogue tourists, and moments of institutional failure and abuse of power defined a topsy-turvy year in visual culture.

Samera Abed believes she was targeted for “wearing my heritage clothing, for signaling that I’m from this specific culture.”

“Netanyahu, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?” chanted artists and activists at the demonstration, where police arrested two protesters including a minor.

The Spanish-influenced dialect is a product of the city’s cultural wealth and diversity, bro.

An exhibition in a historic Cuban restaurant, a little-known erotic art museum, free popsicles, and … oh, right, art fairs!

This month: The irreverent feminist art of Marta Minujín, Molly Crabapple channels Toulouse-Lautrec, Sonya Kelliber-Combs’s cryptic visual lexicon, and much more.

Through the end of the year, Hyperallergic will feature readers’ tributes to artists in their communities.

The short film The Family Statement centers on private messages between the Sacklers unsealed as part of Purdue Pharma’s 2020 bankruptcy case.

Aaron De Groft is countersuing the Orlando Museum of Art for alleged “wrongful termination” and “irreparable injury to his reputation.”

This month: Frank Stella, Jaqueline Cedar, Manet vs. Degas, nudes from the Arab world, and more.

David Velasco was fired by Penske Media, which owns Artforum,  Artnews, and Art in America, over a letter calling for an end to Israel’s air raids on Gaza.

“As artists, cultural workers, and academics, we stand strong in support of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and against all forms of racism and settler-colonial violence,” the authors write.

These are some of the key takeaways of Erin L. Thompson’s article for Hyperallergic.

Police responded to reports of a man falling from a height at Somerset House, where the Courtauld Gallery is located.

This month: Henry Taylor, Barkley L. Hendricks, Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor, Cecilia Paredes, and more.

Her misdemeanor charge will be withdrawn upon completion of a minimum of six months of behavioral therapy and compliance with good behavior.

This month: Ruth Asawa, Michael Rakowitz, Math Bass, contemporary Native art, and more.

Yes, it sometimes felt like a circus — but circuses are fun, and art fairs, typically, are not.

Some things never change, like the over-botoxed art collector and the $25 cold sandwich.

Naudline Pierre’s otherworldly drawings, Yusuke Saito’s ceramic pizzas, Pueblo pottery, and more.

The Whitney Museum of American Art has just raised its general admission tickets to a whopping $30, topping our list of the priciest cultural institutions.

Human rights groups are concerned that Pushkin, known for criticizing the nation’s authoritarian regime, did not receive timely medical care in prison.

This month: love, beauty, kink, and Purell bottles with works by Pepón Osorio, Kahlil Gibran, Gego, Susan Chen, and others.

The New York museum has cut ties with the architect; other US and UK institutions have done the same.

The Brooklyn-based nonbinary artist discusses their recent foray into weaving and how photographs can challenge the seemingly static images in our minds.

“Without my gender and racial identity or my ‘total being,’ my work does not exist,” says the multidisciplinary artist and trans woman.

“I propose the potential of expressing care by being nearby — in proximity to — one another,” says the Singaporean trans nonbinary artist.

In an interview with Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn-based nonbinary artist shares new sculptures inspired by the tension between the material and the spectral.

In the plurality of meaning and language, the Brooklyn-based trans nonbinary artist finds a resonant analogy for their experience of the world.

Your essential guide to exhibitions and outdoor installations across the city, Upstate New York, and Long Island.

The New York-based nonbinary artist talks about the unseen knowledge and processes behind domestic and food-based labor.

Scholars and artists accuse Hunter College and the School of Visual Arts of “craven hypocrisy” for firing Rodriguez as she faced vicious right-wing media attacks.

The Chicago-based trans nonbinary painter speaks of their relationship to loss, the inspirations behind their canvases, and Dungeons and Dragons.

“Queerness, art, and spirituality are integral to my identity, yet they do not confine me,” says the Brazil-born, Berlin-based artist.

This month: Highlights from El Museo del Barrio's collection, artworks on book covers, Chinese bird-and-flower paintings, and more.

The Bangladeshi artist, asylum seeker, and LGBTQ+ activist muses about trans queer survival and the unparalleled joy of taking walks near the ocean.

The former Hunter College adjunct who confronted anti-abortion activists faces charges of harassment and menacing for threatening a tabloid reporter.

Artist and former Hunter College adjunct Shellyne Rodriguez, who was harassed online after protesting a pro-life group on campus, was let go after a tense altercation with a reporter.

Turns out the second day of the fair draws a blend of mid-tier advisors, artists and their parents, and Chris Rock.

This month: Wendy Red Star, Bob Thompson, Daniel Lind-Ramos, art by MFA students, and much more.

A group of cultural workers exposed some artists’ disillusionment with the museum’s residency program and one participant’s alleged experience of harassment.

An exhibition of contemporary work by Puerto Rican artists at the Whitney captures the impossibility of going back and the difficulty of forging ahead.

Lanier's lawyers argued in a hearing today that she could seek possession of the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors via equitable jurisdiction.

Michael Barzman of North Hollywood confessed to lying to the FBI about the provenance of forgeries exhibited at the Orlando Museum of Art.

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art exhibitions this April, including Shellyne Rodriguez, Susan Bee, Mandy Al-Sayegh, Corydon Cowansage, and more.

Select A-list guests will be invited to wear any artifacts from the museum's collection that have not yet been seized by the Manhattan DA's office.

Visitors who spoke to Hyperallergic said they were “horrified” to learn that a human could come up with such a banal and poorly executed artwork.

The cuts to the New York State Council on the Arts budget are attributed to the expiration of pandemic relief programs, but advocates say arts organizations need more support.

There must be a lesson in Vasilis Katsoupis’s film Inside about the vacuousness of the art market or the claustrophobia of exhibition spaces — I just don’t care.