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.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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.
Art
Rediscovering Salvatore Emblema
The story of artist Salvatore Emblema (1929–2006) says a great deal about the American century and how it inspired and dominated the narrative of art history.
Art
Is Wikipedia the Next Frontier for Museums?
Last year, Alexandra Thom spent ten illustrious months on Wikipedia. Thom, with a grant from the Kress Foundation, helped fill the gaps about art and culture on Wikipedia using the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and the expertise of its curatorial department.
Opinion
Updating Guerrilla Girls for Net Artists
Chiara Moioli is a 23-year-old artist based in Milan, Italy, and she thought it was time to update the Guerrilla Girls' "The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist" for internet artists like herself.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, where the fakes are, TED's coming disaster, Ai Weiwei speaks, drinks + politics, African art museum first, design bubble forming, King Tut's erect penis, and more.