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Warhol Foundation Selling Rare and Vintage Posters on Fab.com
On Thursday, April 25, the Andy Warhol Foundation will be presenting an array of signed and unsigned Andy Warhol posters on Fab.com.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Blame David Hockney: Francesco Clemente Creates an iPad Art Work
What's the appeal of an art work on an iDevice? Is it because we are familiar with these by now ubiquitous tools and work created on them give the air of being "current"? If that's the case, maybe we should change our thinking on the matter.
Opinion
The Amazing Canvas Chair that Hangs on Your Wall
Designer Naoki Ono, founder of Tokyo-based YOY design studio, presented this extraordinary "Canvas" chair at Salone Satellite during last week's Milan Design Week 2013 (aka Salone Internazionale del Mobile).
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Feds Raid NYC Gallery Allegedly Involved in High-Stakes Poker Games, Art Fraud [UPDATED]
The New York Times is reporting that Federal agents have raided an Upper East Side art gallery, Helly Nahmad Gallery, as part of an investigation into a gambling operation that included "high-stakes poker games."
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, sacred Hopi artifacts go on sale in Paris, NYC settles with OWS over damaged library, Gagosian helps Pratt students, Qatar buys a well-known Picasso in the UK, museum layoffs, transgender in comics, and more.
Hyperallergic
Photos from Wednesday Night's After Hours in Times Square with Marco Brambilla
Last Wednesday night, the inaugural edition of the After Hours series kicked off at the Room Mate Grace Hotel lounge in New York's Times Square with a haunting installation by artist Marco Brambilla and an ethereal performance by Cammisa Buerhaus. Co-organized by Times Square Arts and Clocktower Gal
Opinion
What Should MoMA Do With the American Folk Art Museum?
There is a growing uproar over the news, first reported in the New York Times yesterday, that the venerable Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will be demolishing the 12-year-old former American Folk Art Museum designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien to integrate the site into its masterplan.
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Donation Promises to Transform Metropolitan Museum into Major Cubist Art Center
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Leonard A. Lauder has made a major donation of Cubist art that will transform New York's largest museum into a major center for Cubist art. The pledged gift is comprised of 78 works, including 33 works by Pablo Picasso, 17 by Georges Braque, 14 by Juan G
Art
The Decapitation of Margaret Thatcher, the Statue
When I was in London last January, I had the chance to visit a hidden gem — well, depending on how you define "gem" — of a sculpture in the Guildhall Art Gallery in central London. Neil Simmons' marble likeness of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has a very pretentious (as you might e
Art
Your Afternoon Snack Served Up by Claes Oldenburg
Need an afternoon snack? Check out what Pop artist Claes Oldenburg has for you at MoMA.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the economic imperative for investing in art, dogs in pantyhose, the Renoir thief, sexism in architecture, street art in Palestine, GIF search engines, and more.
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Screw the Art, We're Going to Frieze for the Food
Some people may be elated at the list of 180 galleries showing at New York's Frieze fair this year — yawn — but we're just really excited by the food options. Today, Frieze announced that they are throwing their own version of what sounds like Williamsburg's Smorgasburg artisanal food fair on Randal