Opinion
How Diverse Is the Venice Biennale?
A special report in the June 2013 edition of The Art Newspaper delves into the question of diversity, or lack thereof, of artists in the international art olympics that is the 55th Venice Biennale.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Fujimoto's Serpentine Pavilion is unveiled, expect more Flavins in the world, David Foster Wallace on a crisis in America, unpaid internships and privilege, Peter Zumthor's proposal for LA, book covers as gendered spaces, the Hirshhorn Museum's bubble pops, and more.
News
OWS Screenprinters Return to Zuccotti Park for #OccupyGezi
Today, and for the first time since New York police evicted Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan on November 15, 2011, the Occupy Wall Street Screenprinters returned to Zuccotti, also known as Liberty Park, to print designs and show solidarity with the protesters of #OccupyGeziNY
Opinion
Bradley Manning "Hero" Mural Returns in Greenpoint, Trial Starts Today
Greenpoint's "HERO BRADLEY MANNING" mural returned to Nassau Avenue after a brief hiatus. Manning's trial begins today.
Art
5 Things to See at Bushwick Open Studios Today
So much to see, but here's my short list of things you should most definitely check out today, the last day of Bushwick Open Studios.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the winners of the Venice Biennale, cat selfies, controversy in Poland, Abramović loves New York, a short history of the Bauhaus, questions for the Warhol Foundation, free PDF downloads of Wolfgang Tillmans books, and more.
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News
Resistance to Turkey's Protest Violence Reaches the Venice Biennale [UPDATED]
In the last few days, the world is watching Turkey erupt in protest after Turkish authorities responded with shocking violence to peaceful protesters trying to save a small park in central Istanbul. A solidarity protest took place on the opening day of the Venice Biennale, and another arose at New Y
Art
And They're Off: Friday Night Openings at Bushwick Open Studios 2013
Tonight's hot weather drew throngs of visitors to the galleries of Bushwick, which kicked off the 2013 Bushwick Open Studios event. Tomorrow, artist studios will be the focus of everyone's attention, but tonight galleries across the neighborhood attracted hundreds of visitors eager to enjoy the good
Art
Art Rx: Bushwick Open Studios Edition
The 7th Annual Bushwick Open Studios (BOS) will be the focus of this week's Art Rx. Stretching out across Bushwick, most of Williamsburg, and neighboring Ridgewood, but strangely still not Bedford Stuyvesant, BOS 2013 will include 604 shows that are impossible to navigate without some help … so that
Opinion
The Pleasure of Great Art in Ugly Rooms
What is the bizarre pleasure in looking at art in banal rooms? Is it the economic disparity between the blue-chip objects and their more middle and lower class surroundings? Maybe it emphasizes that context is everything in the realm of modern and contemporary art.
Opinion
Hijacking Family Circus to Reflect a New Reality
Erin Bradley's Park Slope Family Circus blog appropriates one of a longest running American comic strips, Family Circus, and injects it with wit and social commentary. It's as if artist Norman Rockwell's idyllic vision of America was transformed into an episode of Portlandia, the popular hipster-lam
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a major museum curator goes commercial, the Hirshhorn director is out, female artists are under-represented in the UK, a digital take on a gallery Jane Austen visited in 1813, the owner of John Currin's topless Bea Arthur portrait, and more.