We love to hate AI, but we still use it even if we aren’t aware of it. A short documentary from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project asks artists: What do you really think of this emerging technology? The film premiered exclusively on Hyperallergicis based on a survey among 2,000 art graduates. Give it a watch.
Read Homerist Joel Christensen’s take on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, plus reviews of new films about Caravaggio, Georgia O’Keeffe and the muse-artist relationship between Kate Moss and Lucian Freud. Finally, brace yourself for an upcoming adaptation of the Louvre Heist.
—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief
In a new documentary, artists open up about AI
In the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project short film, artists and creative workers talk candidly about generative technology, sharing their fears, ethical doubts and real-life experiences. The 19-minute documentary premieres exclusively on Hyperallergicis based on the 2025 Pulse Survey on AI and Work, which collected responses from more than 2,000 postsecondary art and design graduates from more than 100 colleges and universities in the United States.
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Indie film from the global majority: BlackStar celebrates 15 years of cinema for liberation
The world’s most important and groundbreaking filmmakers of color will gather to present their work in Philadelphia from August 6 to 9.
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News
The Louvre Heist is coming to a cinema near you
The brazen theft at the Paris museum will be made into a film, with an ongoing investigation and the stolen jewels still at large.
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Features
Meet the Doyennes of ecosexuality
In their latest film, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens argue for replacing an exploitative relationship with the Earth with one based on intimacy, care and pleasure.
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Animated biopic of Nellie Mae Rowe comes to YouTube
The 2023 film, which lovingly immortalizes the life and legacy of the late self-taught Black artist, will begin streaming on July 2. | Rhea Nayyar
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Recent reviews
A Homerist Responds to Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
“This is a story of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it has changed him at all.” | Joel Christensen
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Four centuries later we still don’t have Caravaggio
A British docudrama serves as a salutary introduction to the Baroque master’s greatest works, but we should be wary of what it tells us about the personality of its subject. | Anthony Majanlahti
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Georgia O’Keeffe the Wanderer
A new documentary presents the artist as an eternal traveler, generously highlighting her lesser-known work and challenging myths about her relationship with Alfred Stieglitz. | Debra Brehmer
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The best part of “Moss & Freud” is when it’s over
In the film, Kate Moss is looking for the right man to get her sober, and Lucian Freud is a Big Man who magically sees the “truth” in young women. | Eileen G’Sell
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Making a maintenance artist
A new documentary outlines the decades-long practice of Mierle Laderman Ukeles to draw attention to marginal, unpaid and female labor. | Then Schindel
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From the Archives
How liminalism became the defining aesthetic of our time
This crowd-curated digital movement is one of the most pertinent and explicit responses to our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism. | Ed Simon
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The charged rapture of seeing other women on screen
Feminist film scholar Lori Jo Marso corrects misconceptions about the gendered gaze and analyzes the lessons we can learn from our excitement and unease.
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