Interview
A Photographer Who Paints with Light
Jeremy "Tackyshack" Jackson's photography is a burst of silky color across a darkened universe.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Interview
Commissioning Creativity from China's 'Artisan Imitators'
Zhenhan Hao's "Imitation" project turns the tables on Chinese artisans who normally create endless copies of art and crafts for global consumers.
Art
A Rainbow Over the Williamsburg Bridge
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
Women Are Not Seeking Your Validation
Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's "Stop Telling Women to Smile" project is evolving.
Opinion
Required Reading
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
And this Concludes Videodrome…Let the Sunshine In
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Opinion
The IRL Land Where Cats Rule
The Japanese island of Tashiro (田代島) is where the feline things are.
Opinion
Art School Girls of Doom!
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
Making a Film the Source of Its Own Failure
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
Walk Through Juan Atkins' Detroit
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
A Shadowy Richard Serra Video Break
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
I Forgot My Smartphone
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.