Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
This year's New York incarnation of the NADA art fair suggested that the gathering of young emerging galleries often characterized as the minor leagues of Frieze and other "major league" art fairs has grown up quite a bit. Yet with maturity comes a tendency towards conservatism, and that was reflect
Opinion
This week, photographs and videos galore on Required Reading, including the most iconic image to emerge from the industrial disaster in Dhaka, prison photographs for sale as art, Chris Ware's lesbian Mother's Day cover, Kim Kardashian's Met ball fail, Cooper Union's fatal error, Gavin Brown on why f
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In the world of art blogs the economic models are few and most have yet to be proven, but Art F City (AFC) is trying something new through a booth at this year's Nada New York art fair, where the Brooklyn-based site and fellow Nectar Ad cohort has decided to try their hand at selling art.
Opinion
Walking into a work by James Turrell forces you to scrutinize the environment around you since there is so little to look at except light and color, then you realize how much there is to actually examine. Framing light, Turrell's work can feel effortless but their impact on our perceptions can be pr
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According to documents received by Hyperallergic, the Teamsters have decided to renege on their announcement, made at last month's City Hall press conference, to not target Deutsche Bank in their ongoing challenge of Frieze New York's labor practices.
Opinion
Sometimes life (and art) aren't fair, particularly in the case of classic Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote. So, let us consider his artistic brilliance and how his violence overshadows it.
Opinion
During the recent restoration of Pinturicchio's Resurrection fresco (1494) on the wall of the Hall of Mysteries in the Borgia Apartment at the Vatican has revealed what may be the first images of Native Americans in European art.
Opinion
This week, a history of emoticons, Barocci in London, LA's architecture mess, the birth of the Garbage Pail Kids, William Eggleston and baseball, how China censors social media, and more.
Opinion
What will this new retrospective at MoMA, which opens September 28 in New York, reveal about the psyche of the Belgian artist who loves the radical juxtaposition?
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The world is obsessed with the "biggest" or "smallest" of anything, so … this work of nano-cinema holds the Guinness World Records record for the "World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film."
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This week's comic by Lauren Purje ignited a flurry of responses suggesting what others often say (or wish they'd said) when people make the very clichéd statement: "My Kid Could Do That." We've compiled some of our favorites from the blogazine and social media for your enjoyment.
Opinion
This week, commentary on the Cariou v Prince ruling, architecture on the brain, churnalism, the 9/11 museum, reaction GIFs about art handling, the White House takes a stand on the GIF, and more.