Completing an extended period of research solely on Randolph Caldecott allowed me to make deeper connections between pieces, from initial sketches to published illustrations. In one of the sketchbooks, I noticed a label which read “on p. 35, [may be a study] for an illustration to ‘A Frog he would a-wooing go’”. The frog on that specific page was very...

Features An anniversary exhibition spotlights the artists who’ve made the gallery one of Lower Manhattan’s most adventurous success stories. Left to right: Olivia Smith, David Deutsch, and Chris Dorland (photo Don Stahl, courtesy Magenta Plains) Olivia Smith had a thriving career running Exhibition A on the Upper East Side, a company that sells original contemporary art editions, when artists Chris...

A Dutch still life, “Beast Jesus,” several esoteric Goya characters, and not one but two Marina Abramović/Ulay references (and not even the most obvious ones!) walk into a bar … That’s a Hyperallergic Halloween, baby! On Wednesday evening, October 28, almost 200 of our members, readers, artists, supporters, and their enthusiastic friends rolled into Oberon in Brooklyn for our annual...

Weekly Newsletter Remembering Ursula von Rydingsvard, an Epstein survivor’s message for MoMA, interviews with Paul Pfeiffer and Layli Long Soldier, and the best costumes of our artsy Halloween party. On a fair afternoon in Queens, New York, a woman in a red dress crosses the street in front of me with an actual axe under her arm. Her face is...