Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Last week, Minneapolis-based street artist HOTTEA, who is well-known for stringy street art that normally weaves its away around chain-link fences, transformed the pedestrian tunnel at the Williamsburg Bridge into a colorful passageway.
Opinion
Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's "Stop Telling Women to Smile" project is evolving.
Opinion
This week, Ann Freeman says she was a victim of the Knoedler fraud, opera in Beirut, the walk-in prison vagina in Johannesburg, the YouTube war, fashion's 3D printing moment, and more.
Opinion
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Opinion
The Japanese island of Tashiro (田代島) is where the feline things are.
Opinion
In a darker time, let's call it the early 1990s, MTV tried its hand at some edgier things and one of those experiments was a semi-animated short series titled Art School Girls of Doom.
Opinion
JK Keller's "Gleaning the Fifth Screen, Minority Report (screen test)" (2012) was created when he wondered if there was a way to have the film be the source of its own failure or glitch.
Announcement
As any techno fan, myself included, can tell you, Juan Atkins is considered one of the elders of techno, which was born in the rapidly changing world of Metro Detroit. Even as the city, once one of the fastest growing cities in the world, was being hollowed out by white flight, the edges of the city
Opinion
Richard Serra's “Hand Catching Lead” (1968, 16 mm black-and-white film, no sound) is a strangely appealing video that functions as well in the digital era as it probably did in its own time.
Opinion
This popular video has been making the rounds in the past week, and it captures the reality (ok, it's a little extreme) of wall-to-wall selfies, chats, Instagrams, tweets, Tumblrs, likes, etc.
Opinion
In 50 years, little has changed at art openings.
Opinion
A charming short documentary by Half Cut Tea about artists Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw captures the irreverent zaniness of this New York duo.