About Hyperallergic

Our logo as a stamp, designed by one of our readers, William Everston, as a submission to our Mail Art Bulletin series.

Since our founding in 2009, we have endeavored to deliver playful, serious, and radical perspectives on art and culture to an ever-expanding readership of art enthusiasts, cultural omnivores, and everyone in between.

Hyperallergic’s incisive coverage of art and its discontents has been cited extensively in outlets ranging from the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian to The Nation, WNYC, Gawker, Kottke, Andrew Sullivan, and Felix Salmon, among countless others.

In early 2013 we partnered with Tumblr to co-produce the first-ever Tumblr Art Symposium, and our curatorial efforts with Tumblr and elsewhere have been praised by Wired, Paper Magazine, BULLETT, and the Wall Street Journal.

The Hyperallergic Newsletter is sent out weekly to a subscriber base of nearly twenty thousand, and includes a letter from the editor with a recap of the most popular and important stories from the week. Subscribers also get first dibs on Hyperallergic events, that include discussions, parties, screenings and performances.

Hyperallergic also publishes a Weekend edition edited by a collective of leading writers and journalists, which includes John Yau, esteemed poet, critic, professor, and publisher of the leading small press Black Square Editions. Hyperallergic Weekend offers a closer look at issues in art, books, films, theatre, dance, and music.

“Hyperallergic [is a] witty, provocative, artblog-meets-magazine that is at once playful and serious and impossible to stop reading.”  (Art.sy)

“Hyperallergic, by the way, is that rare thing, deeply informed, up-to-the-minute and often an irresistible read. I look at it most days.” (Mary Louise Schumacher, art critic at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

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Publisher
VEKEN GUEYIKIAN

Editor-in-Chief
HRAG VARTANIAN

Managing Editor
MOSTAFA HEDDAYA

Senior Editor
JILLIAN STEINHAUER

Hyperallergic LABS
JANELLE GRACE

Marketing Assistant
KIMBERLY DREW

Who are we?

Hrag Vartanian

Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief

Hrag Vartanian is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Hyperallergic. He has been invited as a guest commentator on Al Jazeera, WNYC and has been quoted in the New York Times, New York Observer, Daily News and elsewhere. His work has appeared in countless publications and he regularly lectures on the art world online. He serves on the board of the Triangle Arts Association. (@hragv)

Veken Gueyikian

Co-founder & Publisher

Veken Gueyikian is the co-founder and publisher of Hyperallergic. He left behind careers in chemical engineering and medicine to pursue his passion in interactive marketing. He works with clients in the real estate, pharmaceutical, nonprofit, and culture industries to help them reach audiences around the world. His agency, Going Off Script, was named by Adweek as an up-and-coming Brooklyn ad agency. (@veken)

Mostafa Heddaya

Managing Editor

Mostafa Heddaya is the managing editor of Hyperallergic. His writing on politics and the arts has appeared in the New York Observer, Paris Review Daily, and Salon, and he has debated civil society issues in the Middle East at the National Endowment for Democracy and Triple Canopy. In his spare time he worries about Sea-Monkeys and edits American Circus, a Pushcart Prize-winning journal he co-founded in 2011. (@mheddaya)

Jillian Steinhauer

Senior Editor

Jillian Steinhauer is senior editor at Hyperallergic. She has written about art and culture for a variety of publications, including The Paris Review Daily, The Awl, Capital New York and The Jewish Daily Forward. In her spare time, she also works as a freelance copyeditor and proofreader. A graduate of NYU’s Cultural Reporting and Criticism master’s program, she lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Lady. (@jilnotjill)

Janelle Grace

Hyperallergic LABS Managing Editor

Hyperallergic LABS Managing EditerJanelle Grace is the managing editor of Hyperallergic’s tumblelog Hyperallergic LABS. In some of her previous professional lives, she’s written essays for the Studio Museum in Harlem, coordinated gallery talks at MoMA, and checked coats at the Museum of Sex. She’s also known for her role as @RudyHuxtable on Twitter.(@rudyhuxtable)

Kimberly Drew

Marketing Assistant

Kimberly Drew is the marketing assistant for Nectar Ads and Hyperallergic. Before joining the team at Nectar Ads, she was a Dedalus Fellow for Diversity in the Arts at Creative Time. In her free time she runs the tumblr blog Black Contemporary Art, that she started after interning in the Director’s Office at The Studio Museum in Harlem. She’s also known for her role as @museummammy on Twitter, Instagram and Foursquare.(@museummammy)

Hyperallergic Weekend Editorial Collective

Correspondents

Regular Contributors

Additional Contributors

Additional Hyperallergic Weekend Contributors