Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
News
Today, the FBI announced that they have identified possible suspects in the shocking 1990 Isabella Gardner Stewart Museum heist of $500m worth of art, including three works by Rembrant, Vermeer’s "The Concert" (1658–1660), Govaert Flinck’s "Landscape with an Obelisk" (1638), five works by Edgar Dega
Opinion
This week, US is tops, LA's MOCA drama in GIFs, UAE's censorship problems, Michael Crichton on Jasper Johns, The Thing is back, and more.
Opinion
This week, William Wegman's first GIF, what it means to be Canadian, books that shaped art history, copyright infringement as terrorism, auction houses in India and China, and more.
Art
Last Saturday night was show-and-tell at the New York incarnation of Art Hack Day, which took place at 319 Scholes in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the treasures unearthed during the three-day hack-a-thon were on full display.
Opinion
This week, MoMA's Rauschenberg/Johns closet, Libeskind rails against autocrat-serving architects, Piero della Francesca at the Frick, Dalí's curious 1958 interview with Mike Wallace, Cory Arcangel in The New Yorker, and more.
Opinion
This Art21 video of Margaret Kilgallen is particularly special because it features some previously unheard interview footage with the late painter.
Hyperallergic
Art21 is celebrating. The arts nonprofit has hit an amazing milestone of 100 artists who have appeared to date on the first six seasons of their Peabody Award-winning documentary series Art in the Twenty-First Century.
Opinion
This week, Banksy dramas, Sou Fujimoto's cloud-like Serpentine Pavilion, a queer history of computing, improv doesn't pay, claims of discrimination at the El Museo del Barrio, and more.
Opinion
How can you not be impressed with a project that promises a pen that can draw in the air?
Opinion
This week, Leonardo gets digitalize at the British Museum, Abramović on the value of discipline, Piero della Francesco in America, sustainable architecture, and more.
Art
For those who love the vibrant art scene of Bushwick and its younger sister in Queens, Ridgewood, it is a good time to venture through the area's galleries to see a wide range of work that is sure to inspire and provoke conversation. These are seven shows that are worth a look.
![Emoji Art History [UPDATED]](/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/02/emoji-art-world-home.jpg)
Opinion
Ah, the simplicity of it all. A simple tumblelog post has evolved into a Twitter meme simply named #emojiarthistory.