Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
In today's high-paced media environment, yesterday's footage of Russian security officials in traditional Cossack headgear whipping members of Pussy Riot (below) has already made it into the activist group's latest video, "Putin Will Teach You How to Love."
Opinion
US President Obama's apology to University of Texas at Austin art history professor Ann Collins Johns has created a frenzy of media coverage but also some inexplicably strange responses.
News
BBC has uncovered unverified video of Miami artist Maximo Caminero destroying part of Ai Weiwei's "Colored Vases" (2006–12) artwork.
Art
This week, the ruminations of a pioneering hip-hop photographer, a massive show of Italian Futurism, and the last chance to see Julie Ault's collection at Artists Space.
News
Miami-based artist Maximo Caminero, 51, hurled himself into the media spotlight when he dropped a vase that was part of Ai Weiwei's According to What? retrospective currently at the Perez Art Museum Miami.
News
The name Googoosh is pop cultural catnip to people across Western and Central Asia, and her latest video "بهشت" (Behesht or Heaven), which was released on Valentine's Day, may be the first explicit reference to lesbianism in mainstream Iranian pop culture.
Opinion
This week, Jasper Johns speaks about his new series, Gehry critique, world press freedoms, what makes a good photo, origin of the word fuck, scientists make nuclear fusion, and more.
News
Tonight, Kickstarter announced they had a security breach early this week, and they didn't know until law enforcement officials told them on Wednesday night.
Opinion
It's Valentine's Day today, and while those in love (couples, the polyamorous, people and their pets … ) seek solace in each other's company as they celebrate their cultural superiority over single people (OK, it's only implied), the good people at Do Something Good (DSG) have created an intimate (w
News
I'm a sucker for a feel-good story of an artist who finds his or her work in an unexpected place, so I was delighted when New York–based artist Judith Braun emailed her friends and colleagues earlier today to say she had spotted something she designed in the hands of Sochi Olympic bronze medalist Ke
Opinion
Kendell Geers's "Stripped Bare" (2009), a very contemporary take on a classic of modern art, was shot across the internet as the publicity image for his upcoming lecture at Philadelphia's Institute for Contemporary Art. It's a reference to Marcel Duchamp's masterpiece "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her
Art
Whether you know her as an artist, film producer, fashion designer, or stylist, Maripol had a definitive influence on the downtown New York culture of the 1980s. A new book, Maripola X, gathers 200 of her Polaroid photographs in a limited-edition tome from Le Livre Art Publishing.