Art
Art Rx
This week's offerings are wonderfully diverse: masterpiece stained-glass windows and a masterpiece novel, plus an exquisite art contraption and a night of Bushwick gallery hopping.
Hrag Vartanian
News
G.U.L.F. Responds to Guggenheim, Calls on Museum to Open Its Doors to Free Public Assembly
The following statement was emailed to Hyperallergic, and it is a response to Guggenheim Director Richard Armstrong's statement earlier today:
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Guggenheim Responds to Saturday's G.U.L.F. Protest Action
Today, the Guggenheim provided Hyperallergic with the following statement from Director Richard Armstrong in response to our request for comment on Saturday night's protest action in the museum by G.U.L.F.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, reinterpreting the Parthenon, Wall Streeters behaving badly, considering Hannah Höch, academic writing, remaking Robocop, modern day slavery, and more.
News
Protest Action Erupts Inside Guggenheim Museum
Tonight, over 40 protesters staged an intervention inside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan during Saturday night's pay-what-you-wish admission hours.
Art
The Bedroom Where Lincoln Slept with Another Man
Over the last decade, there has been a growing debate about the sexuality of President Lincoln, who, like many men of his generation, slept with other men in the same bed. That fact, which may seem peculiar to a contemporary audience, is the subject of New Orleans–based artist Skylar Fein's new work
Opinion
Pussy Riot Release New Video with Yesterday's Whipping Incident
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
People Lose Their Minds Over Obama's Art History Apology
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
Video of Man Smashing Ai Weiwei Vase Emerges
BBC has uncovered unverified video of Miami artist Maximo Caminero destroying part of Ai Weiwei's "Colored Vases" (2006–12) artwork.
Art
Art Rx
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.
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Artist Smashes Ai Weiwei Vase to Protest Museum's Snub of Local Artists
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.
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Legendary Iranian Diva Challenges Taboos with Lesbian Couple
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.