Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
This week, as you know, Hyperallergic is in Miami for the annual art fairs. But this year, and for the first time, Hyperallergic is hosting a party and sponsoring an event during the major art week.
News
MIAMI — Today, the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (FAIC) announced that on Monday, December 10 they will be opening a temporary facility to provide volunteer assistance and work space to museums, libraries, archives, historic sites, galleries, co
Art
MIAMI — It's that time of year when the art world converges on the most Latin big city in America, Miami, for the annual art pilgrimage that attracts tens of thousands of art fiends. And today it symbolically begins with the opening of the Art Basel Miami Beach, the mothership of Florida art fairs.
Opinion
While touring Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum last week, I encountered a fantastic label for a painting by Nola Hatterman that did what a good art work label should do, mainly providing the context that augments the experience of looking, while connecting the work to our own time and place.
Announcement
Now in its 23rd year as the anchor art fair for the city of Miami, Art Miami, the premiere international contemporary and modern art fair, continues to respond to the interests of serious collectors and this year will debut CONTEXT Art Miami, its new sister art fair featuring emerging and cutting ed
Opinion
This week, criticizing Ai Weiwei, the FBI is tracking your Google searches, history of Pong, Hirst is a joke, the Paris art "underground," and more.
Opinion
Does Cyber Monday really exist? Who cares, but if you're like us you're looking for crazy stuff that isn't another iDevice, or scarf or mug or whatever everyone else already has. Here is our list of five items that should satisfy the most art-afflicted holiday gift junky.
Opinion
This week, pornographic prehistoric art, the military-architectural complex, war photography, art historians and the internet, the man who owns The Scream, reasons to write about the art market, and more.
Opinion
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Opinion
I think it's happened: I've hit my Gangnam Style limit with this new video by Anish Kapoor and his cohorts in museums and galleries (not to mention random offices and people) around the world.
Opinion
Romanian artist Sebastian Cosor creates a very personal animated vision of the world inhabited by Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (1893–1910) and sets it all to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky" (1973).
Opinion
Smartphone pics aren't the only source of social media buzz circulating around Edvard Munch's "The Scream, currently at MoMA. The chatter on Twitter is pretty funny, intriguing, and sometimes revealing, even if some of it is not directly related (but funny nonetheless).