Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
This week, art forgeries, Frere-Jones on Jay Z's crappy album, food criticism drama, sound art resonates, the woman who was raped by Roman Polanski speaks, Boston's only graffiti park, Freudian analysis of sexting, 3D printing renaissance, and more.
Art
The fourth and final week of Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) included many lectures as performance, the idea of networked performance, and what exactly would a marketplace for performance art mean?
Art
Serkan Özkaya's "Mirage" (2013) was an ominous presence at the beta launch of the new Postmasters Gallery space in Tribeca.
Opinion
James Franco is having a tough time right now. His Indiegogo fundraiser for Palo Alto Stories doesn't look like it will reach its goal, but the actor/artist/fundraiser/heart throb is also upset that former Museum of Contemporary Art director Jeffrey Deitch is leaving the institution and perhaps LA.
Opinion
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.
Opinion
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
This New York love story chronicles the chaotic 40-year marriage of boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and artist Noriko Shinohara.
Opinion
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
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
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
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
Would New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl suggest that Greece sell the Parthenon to pay its crippling national debt?