Opinion
Video Interlude: Polishing a Giacometti Sculpture
I found it rather soothing to watching two employees at the Museum of Modern Art polish the large Alberto Giacometti sculpture, "Tall Figure, III" (1960), in the museum courtyard.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Guerrilla Artist Warns Detroiters to Brace Themselves
Jerry Vile's guerrilla addition to Detroit's "Monument to Joe Louis" (aka The Fist) is his tongue-in-cheek way of preparing the citizens of his beloved city to brace themselves …
Opinion
One of the Art World's Most Interesting Couples
This New York love story chronicles the chaotic 40-year marriage of boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and artist Noriko Shinohara.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, "smart dumb" is a thing, High Line shenanigans, Martin Scorsese talks cinema aesthetics, the charitable-industrial complex, every movie reference in The Simpsons, and more.
Opinion
The Most and Least Popular Emoji on Twitter
Ever wonder which emoji are most popular with users? Now Emojitracker is tracking Twitter users to find out which symbols are being used the most right now.
Opinion
Stephen Colbert Chimes in About Detroit Museum Sell-Off Fears
The Colbert Report tackles the bankruptcy of Detroit, and the irony that Detroit could possibly sell off Diego Rivera's "Detroit Industry" mural, which depicts a socialist worker's utopia.
Opinion
Collective Moods Transformed into a Rhapsody of Light
Artist Jennifer Wen Ma and lighting designer Zheng Jianwe have collaborated to create "Nature and Man in Rhapsody of Light" at Beijing's famed Water Cube aquatic center.
Opinion
New Yorker Art Critic Justifies Looting of Detroit Museum
Would New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl suggest that Greece sell the Parthenon to pay its crippling national debt?
Art
Images from the Third Week of the Brooklyn Int’l Performance Art Festival #NSFW
The third week of Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) was a giant celebration of such diverse styles that it was often hard to believe that it was all unified under the category of performance art.
Opinion
Gender Gap Remains Pervasive in Academia
Gender browser provides a "multiscale view of gender representation across multiple domains of scholarly publishing." The picture ain't pretty.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Žižek weighs in a global protest, Walker Evans at MoMA, political cartoons, Smithsonian's space problem, Faulkner sues Woody Allen, and more.
Art
Images from the Second Week of the Brooklyn Int’l Performance Art Festival
The Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) is picking up speed, and this last week was its busiest yet.