Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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MoMA PS1 and the MoMA mothership have announced today that CODA, an experimental architectural firm based in Ithaca, NY, was selected as the winner of the 2013 Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. The winning project, appropriately called "Party Wall," is comprised of a
Art
I received an email this week about a long-forgotten artist who is not only having an art exhibition in New York next month, but he was the man responsible for the world's first cross-dressing superhero back in 1940.
Opinion
We at Hyperallergic pride ourselves as the best possible source for all allergy-related matters in the art world, so you could imagine that we became very concerned when we heard Wolfgang Laib's "Pollen from Hazelnut" installation will be coming to the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art.
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Last Friday, January 11, Idle No More London staged a UK solidarity action in London's British Museum. Standing in solidarity with the Idle No More movement, which originated last November with the First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities in Canada, members of Idle No More London chose the museum
Opinion
This week, the 20 tallest buildings of 2012, MoMA launches Louise Bourgeois website, the art market in 2013, Neil Gaiman talks about "making good art," a rare Hiroshima photograph, Zora Neale Hurston on zombies, and more.
Opinion
As soon as we published Samantha Villenave's essay "Kate Middleton Portrait Buzz: Art Criticism, Sexism, or Something Else?" (01/11/13), we immediately saw readers respond, particularly on Facebook.
Opinion
Richard Serra explains the role process has played in his artistic evolution. For the world-renowned artist it is, he explains, an integral part of his work.
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It seems like ever other month a new painting by an Old or New Master is being rediscovered after a stint of obscurity in someone's palazzo, basement, yard sale, or, in this case, in museum storage. London's National Gallery, which you'd think would know exactly what it had, has discovered what they
Art
This week, the doctor wants you to focus, and her suggestion is the exciting Brooklyn/Montreal art exchange to cure your ills.
Opinion
This week, Gagosian's art business, Dave Hickey's contradictions, museums collecting non-Western art, photographs in the National Gallery, the Library of Congress' Twitter archive, damage to the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Museum, and more.
Art
Last month, Danish architecture firm BIG unveiled its plans for a landmark in Arizona's largest city that the developer hopes will become a symbol of the city much in the way Seattle's Space Needle has come to represent that great Northwestern city.
Opinion
This is Robert Indiana first large-scale "LOVE" sculpture (1970 by Lippincott) ever made and it is in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.