Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
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
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
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
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
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.
Art
If you couldn't make it to the Thursday, May 9 After Hours event featuring performer Nomi Ruiz then do not fear, we have a video that will give you a taste of what you may have missed.
Opinion
A member of the punk feminist group Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina, has declared a hunger strike after a Russian judge refused to allow her to personally attend a court hearing about her possible parole
Opinion
The Whitney Museum is going back to basics, or at least that's what you might think with their new brand identity redesign that was unveiled today. Created by Amsterdam-based Experimental Jetset, the new logo is an acute replacement to the rectilinear typeface rolled out 13 years ago and designed by
Opinion
This week, photos in museums, why art critics matter, a street art site that "steals", the East Village Eye goes online, political economy, a rapper's run in with Marxism on Twitter, what American voters think of hipsters and more …
Opinion
I think I've admitted this before on Hyperallergic, but I love auctions, they are a guilty pleasure. Not the big ticket auctions that grab all the headlines but the ones where it is still possible to find real treasures.
News
Tonight, auction world records have been set for 12 artists at Christie's contemporary evening sale in New York, including records for Basquiat, Pollock, de Kooning, Noland, Guston, and Lichtenstein.
Opinion
I recently discovered this prime cache of vintage paunch porn, thanks to two of my fave tweeples who shared this stash of 18th century "power paunches" as compiled by romance and "crimance" novelist Lucinda Brant, whose stories are set in that period.