Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
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
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
![Last NYC Banksy Is Full of Hot Air, Cops Arrest Potential Thieves [UPDATE 5]](/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/sized-31st-oct_-image-home.jpg)
News
This is it … Banky's final New York residency art work and it's in Queens.
News
Banksy's new work is called "Bronx Zoo," and is located near Yankee's Stadium in the Bronx.
Interview
During my recent visit to Write of Passage, I encountered graffiti legend Chris "DAZE" Ellis, who allowed me to interview him about another graffiti legend, Martin Wong.
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News
There are three Bankys left this month, and today's work is in the window of the Housing Works thrift shop in Manhattan's Gramercy neighborhood.
![Coney Island's Banksy Robot, Busy Weekend in Brooklyn [UPDATE 2]](/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/sized-coney-island-tight-home.jpg)
News
What a weekend. After Friday night's unveiling of Banksy's new "Reaper" animatronics art performance on Houston Street, two text-based pieces appeared the following days in Brooklyn, and — surprisingly — they were largely left alone by taggers and haters, while today's stencil piece of a spray-can-w
Opinion
This week, Banksy hates the new Freedom Tower, North Korean visions of China, Turkey's ban on the letter "q" is over, Byzantine in DC, a black art show that marginalizes black artists, and more.
![Banksy's Friday Night Surprise Looks Creepy [UPDATE 3]](/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/banksy-bowery-home.jpg)
News
Banksy's latest looks spooky.
Art
Rarely have I spent so much time looking in amazement at the skill of an artist to transform paper as I did with Brian Adam Douglas's excellent How to Disappear Completely at the Andrew Edlin Gallery.
![Banksy's New Piece Is Waiting at a Strip Club for Love [UPDATED]](/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/cropped-man-with-flowers-home.jpg)
News
Today's Banksy is almost too easy to find. The image already reveals that is placed on the side of the Hustler Club on Manhattan's West Side, which is located on Twelfth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets.
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Opinion
Today's announcement on Banksy.co.uk points to a larger obstacle that Banksy will be facing going forward with his New York residency, the New York Police Department's draconian anti-graffiti policies.