Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
News
This weekend's Banksys touched down in three boroughs. They included some of his trademark black-and-white stencils and a surprise pop-up shop by Central Park, while the story of the Red Hook work continues.
Opinion
This week, Banksy speaks, a Russian artist fools London dealers, art historians are scared to give opinions, street artists in Palestine, the Met's "primitive" heritage, a forgotten Lynda Benglis sculpture, and more.
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Opinion
Remember that find by Walking and Typing yesterday? Well, it turns out that was today's Banksy and it's parked in the Meatpacking District.
![Banksy's Beaver Fells Parking Sign in East New York [UPDATE 4]](/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/bansky-beaver-home.jpg)
Opinion
As a Canadian, I'm rather happy to see a beaver in New York, particularly on a day when Canadian author Alice Munro is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
News
Another day, another Banksy in New York City, and today's Easter egg popped up on Ludlow Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, while the Banksy in Red Hook has been protected from vandals.
Art
A digital art auction is seeking to bring the art and tech communities closer together, and it may help forge a market for digital art in the process.
News
Banksy hasn't been wow'ing street art fans in New York, though he (I'm going to assume it is a "he") is creating a lot of excitement around street art, which is a good thing.
Opinion
At least one of Banksy's latest works reveals a more complicated take on the world.
Opinion
This week, Jeffrey Deitch talks street art and his future, architecture and design award winners, "average" women around the world, internet empires, Native American symbols, photography in museums, and more.
Interview
It's hard to believe that the Bushwick Film Festival is six years old, but co-founder Kweighbaye Kotee explains that it has slowly grown to a festival that will be screening 4 feature films and 10 short films, hosting 4 panels, an art show, a live-taping for a television show, and an award ceremony
Art
Here is an exclusive look at Performa's Surrealist Reader, along with excerpts of many of the texts.
![New Banksys Pop Up as Old Ones Are Freshened Up [UPDATED]](/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/10/occupy-musical-banksy-home.jpg)
News
It's another day, and another Banksy in New York, as the secretive street artist has revealed a new series in three different locations.