Opinion
New York's AIDS Memorial Looks Like a Bus Shelter
How did this ethereal design of an “infinite forest” transform into a hideous, bus-shelter-like, 18-foot steel canopy?
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
A World Where Kids Go to Mapplethorpe Museums and the Gov't Pays for it #NSFW
The Onion satirical site has decided to "go there" for their latest art-related story titled, "Robert Mapplethorpe Children's Museum Celebrates Grand Opening," which almost sounds like it could be real. You know there has to be latex and lube involved … or something.
News
The Allure of Czech Modernist Posters
Last Sunday, the Dutch Poster Museum in Hoorn, The Netherlands, opened its doors for a special exhibition of Czech Modernist posters from the collection of the Lowry Family of New York City.
Art
Art Rx
This week, the doctor told us to improve our diets, so we're on a mission to select only the best shows and events to attend this week. It's New York, so that isn't very hard, but we made sure to include a short history of Thai contemporary art, a retrospective of F.A.T. Labs, a 77 artist group show
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, is it art (again), Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize, debating the creative class, Penn Station & LA MOCA problems, 20 Top Artist Grants and Fellowships, heavy metal in a London museum, how Iran censors the web, and more.
Interview
The Portrait of a Family in Human Ash and Meth
A big part of Zefrey Throwell's current exhibition at Gasser & Grunert Gallery in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood is the story of a family split apart by drug addiction, then brought closer by a memorial for a dead father. It is also a story of overcoming hardship brought on by Hurricane Sandy, not
Announcement
The Shy Design Gestures of Ana Kraš
A native of Serbia, Ana Kraš [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/68015/47560/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/95567/0] is a New York-based designer best known for her handmade modernist objects, including the Bonbon lamps, which are colorful, modernist, pendant lamps that she says engross
Opinion
Just in Case You Forgot that the US Visa Mess Impacts the Art Community
Nick Bertke (aka Pogo) is an Australian mashup artists who has found himself in an unusual predicament, he has received a 10 year ban from entering the United States for not having the proper visa when crossing the border. He took his plea to YouTube.
News
FBI Amps Up Efforts for 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Theft
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
Required Reading
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
Required Reading
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
Hacking God
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.