Art
What If Instagram Was Part of Art History?
Every wonder what art history would've been like if Instagram was around for some pivotal moments?
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
5Pointz: The Morning After
This morning 5Pointz was largely deserted. There was hardly anyone in sight after a firestorm of online protest about the midnight buff that erased over a decade of graffiti and street art history in Long Island City.
Art
The Art and Science of the Expedition
SIENA, Italy — Artists like Mark Dion and Amy Yoes have long understood the importance of science, not as an antithesis of art, but as a partner in figuring out what it is we know and how we know it
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Daumier, Art Spiegelman, stolen art, José Clemente Orozco, Batkid, transgender poetry, Chinese censorship, and more.
Interview
Nourishment of the Spirit: Swoon's Braddock Tiles
It's hard not to be affected by Swoon's passionate and visually stunning idealism, the Brooklyn-based artist has made a career of large beautiful drawings and prints of people who convey hope, strength, and personal power.
News
Francis Bacon Triptych Breaks World Auction Record at $142.4M
Tonight, Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" (1969) broke the world auction record and realized $142,405,000 at Christie's Tuesday night Post-War and Contemporary auction at Manhattan's Rockefeller Center.
Art
Castello di Ama: Contemporary Masters in the Tuscan Countryside
SIENA, Italy — At the bottom of a small grotto that could easily pass for something from the medieval era there stands a small, shadowy, and delicate Carrera marble fountain that kneels in a shallow pool of water.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Banksy charity sale is a bust, art and the 1%, looking at Norman Rockwell, opera's future, creating contemplative spaces in video games, underwear that masks smells, and more.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, race/ethnicity stats in popular film, the world's first emoji movie, helping the blind see art, problems for photojournalists in Russia, Cornell returns tablets to Iraq, Saddam Hussein's former palace becomes a museum, and much more.
News
One of Picasso's Favorite African Masks Goes to Auction
Popularly known as the "Krugier-Picasso mask," a 19th century West African mask that will be part of the Jan Krugier Collection sale at Christie's on November 4 was an important inspiration to Pablo Picasso, who captured its semi-circular mouth with the pointed tongue in several of his paintings, in
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Last NYC Banksy Is Full of Hot Air, Cops Arrest Potential Thieves [UPDATE 5]
This is it … Banky's final New York residency art work and it's in Queens.
News
Banksy Creates a Bronx Zoo, Invader Invades NYC, Awesome Banksy GIFs
Banksy's new work is called "Bronx Zoo," and is located near Yankee's Stadium in the Bronx.