Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Last night's "No Wave Performance Task Force Debate, Round II: Labor" was a curious performance that was organized and structured by choreographer and performance artist Lindsey Drury who refuses to claim ownership of the piece. "It is not mine. I set up the structure but we all own it," she told Hy
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Pentagram designer Paula Scher has created a beautiful new program of design for NYC's 14 miles of beaches that presents an optimistic, clean, and attractive vision of what urban beaches should be.
Interview
Pierogi Gallery's Flat Files have an almost fabled status in Brooklyn's contemporary art scene. Started 18 years ago with 20 artists, the Flat Files have developed as a type of breeding ground for artistic talents and a place where collectors, curators, and others can dip into with ease.
Art
The Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) has begun and I will be blogging weekly photo essays of all the performances — a small fraction of the complete schedule — I attend each week.
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Friday night's performance at Bushwick's Grace Exhibition Space was an acid bath of images that oscillated between the trippy baroque and provocatively unnerving.
Opinion
This week, New York's arts funding future, 1980s abstraction, racism in the new Lone Ranger movie, Google's RSS deathwish, Lou Reed reviews Kanye West, Rineke Dijkstra photographs the Dutch Royals, and more.
Art
What better way to celebrate US Independence Day then with a museum visit? Here are a few institutions you might consider visiting this holiday.
Art
Brooklyn's beloved Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQF) is having a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum. This is an insider show from a group that tries very hard to appear like outsiders while being completely fluent in artspeak, which is increasingly being known as International Art English.
Art
It's a holiday this week in the United States, so museums and galleries are largely on hiatus or at least their programming is, but that's not to say there isn't a whole bunch of things to do and see for the art lover.
Opinion
This week, James Turrell explains why his work photographs badly, LA Times hates MOCA's new architecture show, Corbusier at MoMA, how much does Pandora pay artists, more on Amazon's art-selling business, Francesco Bonami hates Ai Weiwei and Banksy, and more …
Interview
London-based photographer Ingrid Berthon-Moine has taken advantage of the anatomical accuracy of Ancient Greek art to focus her lens on a very specific part of the male anatomy for her latest series, Marbles.
Interview
Best known as the man responsible for the massive Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: A Catalogue Raisonné, British art historian David Anfam has more recently been focusing on another mid-20th-century American artist, Clyfford Still, whose flame-like works that have their own luminosity. "You can tur