Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
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 browser provides a "multiscale view of gender representation across multiple domains of scholarly publishing." The picture ain't pretty.
Opinion
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
The Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) is picking up speed, and this last week was its busiest yet.
News
A mural by street artist LNY now dominates the very busy corner of Bedford Avenue and North 6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Opinion
This week, more proof Joseph Beuys lied, more problems for Cooper Union, the world's biggest building in the world unveiled, Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial has more problems, Timbuktu's library assessed, and more.
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
Art
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.
Art
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.