Art
Remember When Milli Vanilli Were Artists?
This week, a new opera devoted to the bizarre tale of pop duo Milli Vanilli, WOW (aka Work-In-Progress), will conclude its short two-week run.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Your Handy Guide to the 2014 LA Art Book Fair
LOS ANGELES — Shannon Michael Cane knows he has big shoes to fill as the new director and curator of the highly anticipated second edition of the Los Angeles Art Book Fair (LAABF). "Taking over the fair from someone like [artist and curator] AA Bronson, who is a mentor to me, is a lot of pressure to
Opinion
What NOT to Do with Kids in a Museum
Bushwick gallerist Stephanie Theodore is at the Tate Modern today and spotted this hilarious/sad/incredible/unbelievable (so many mixed emotions) scene of parents allowing their child to use a Donald Judd sculpture as a bunk bed.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, downtown performance insularity, best photographers in Asia, the value of arts education, charting the flight path of birds, a gay Russian response to Zhukova's racist chair photo, street style, and more.
Art
Images at the End of the Frozen World
As the northeast of the United States has been submerged into a deep freeze, it seems appropriate to circulate these chilling images poised to go on view at the Sean Kelly Gallery next week.
Art
Art Rx
There are too many good shows on view in New York to stay in all week — from a spaceship inside the New Museum to new work by Steve DiBenedetto and David LaChapelle, plus a mysterious artist from the 1970s.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the role of money in art, Magritte cartoons in the New Yorker, how we should write English, the magician of Vine, Ariel Sharon's architecture, bad corporate logos, and more.
Opinion
Old Master Paintings Animated
This is what art looks like on drugs.
Art
Stock Photos of the Generic Art World
I don't remember which social media link triggered my descent into the rabbit hole of art-related stock imagery on 123RF, but after a little a while I realized that I had taken the blue pill.
Art
Constructing Abstraction at Front Room Gallery
There's no indication that Front Room Gallery's Constructing Abstraction exhibition was meant to be an optical vortex of sorts but it certainly makes for a jostling viewing experience that feels like a temperature check for the power of pattern and color in contemporary abstraction.
News
70% of Ancient Tibetan Town Destroyed by Fire
Nearly 300 houses were destroyed in a major fire that destroyed about two thirds of Dukezong in Shangri-La county on Saturday, January 11. The 1,300-year-old city is a popular tourist destination in the southwest Yunnan province is renowned for its ancient Tibetan town of mostly wooden houses with c
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, how the government is accessing your data, a Richard Serra takedown, the failure of open concept office space, when a tweet becomes an ad, US military street art in Afghanistan, people who prefer modern art over ancient art, and more.