Where are the arts donors and why aren’t they pressuring Washington?
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor of Hyperallergic. His work has appeared in the Art21 blog, Brooklyn Rail, NYFA's Current, Huffington Post, and Modern Painters. He serves on the board of the Triangle Arts Association and blogs regularly at HragV.com.
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Hrag Vartanian
This week, the doctor wants you to travel. From the Upper East Side to the art-borhood of Ridgewood, Queens, you have a long way to go before you get over whatever it is you have.
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A Queens neighborhood, with the help of the Queens Museum of Art, is coming into its artified own.
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This week, occupy design, Seven on Seven, Mr. Brainwash copyright case, brutalism’s savior, literary New York, Damien Hirst in London and more.
Google salutes Keith Haring on his birthday today with a homepage doodle. The American street artist turned pop culture darling would have been 54. Here are a few places to see Harings in New York today.
This week, the brand new New York art fair weekend has finally arrived and your doctor is worried.
Today, New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss tonight’s Sotheby’s auction of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” Saltz isn’t a fan of the circus surrounding tonight’s sale and he dislikes that the chatter is mostly about the projected price tag and not the art itself.
Today is May Day, the international day of workers, and here at Hyperallergic we’re proud to lend our support to Paddy Johnson of AFC, who is spearheading a petition to show one of the world’s largest auction houses, Sotheby’s, that those of us who love the art world are shocked by their treatment of union art handlers.
