Opinion
Man Finds His Doppelganger at Philadelphia Museum of Art
On November 11, Max Galuppo, 20, of Bloomsbury, NJ, encountered his doppelganger (aka his double) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the resemblance is uncanny.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Announcement
Motoi Yamamoto's Saltscapes
Motoi Yamamoto makes elaborate installations using a very nontraditional contemporary art material, table salt. For the latest installment of The Avant/Garde Diaries [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/40489/31604/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/58775/0], the Japanese artist traveled to t
Opinion
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Isn't Going to be Eurocentric
The Financial Times has a short report on the partial unveiling of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi collection at the Abu Dhabi art fair, including this interesting nugget about the non-Eurocentric focus of the collection.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, designing for catastrophes, Chelsea's survival, Canada's art biennial, Toronto's take on street art, Jeff Koons and Basque separatists, and more.
Opinion
Piecing America Together
While a minority of Americans are in a post-election meltdown over the browning of America, I feel compelled to admit that the part of America that is in a constant state of flux, always shifting, moving, changing, and accepting of the fact that the only things that unite Americans are a few ideas,
Opinion
The Post-Election State of Arts Funding
The Americans for the Arts Action Fund President and CEO Robert L. Lynch has issued a statement today regarding last night's election results and we found the whole thing — packed full of interesting facts about the election that many of us didn't know — important enough to post here.
Art
A New, More Refined Drawing Center Reopens
The Drawing Center reopens today in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood and the $10 million renovation not only provides 50% more exhibition space (4,300 sq ft) but a clean seemingly ego-less space that refracts slivers of natural ambient light into galleries and offers an ideal frame with which to look a
Opinion
And Obama Wins!
Hyperallergic endorsed US President Barack Obama a few weeks ago, and we're happy to report that the Democratic nominee has been elected to a second term today.
News
Keep Hope Alive Alive and Other Democratic Clichés
Artist Suzanne Broughel's "Keep Hope Alive Alive" project takes vintage designs from past Black presidential candidates (Jesse Jackson and Shirley Chisholm mostly) and altered them to remove the candidate's name and image leaving the generic imagery of "hope," "change," and the other clichés of the
News
Just the Facts: 2012 US Presidential Candidates Arts Positions
How do the two US Presidential candidates measure up in regards to their arts-funding records?
Art
How Things Fall Apart: Photos from The Rockaways
After yesterday's report on MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach's efforts to gather volunteers for a second volunteer trip to The Rockaways this upcoming weekend, we felt compelled to share these images by photographer Amanda Kirkpatrick, who traveled to the Queens neighborhood last weekend to docume
News
MoMA PS1's Klaus Biesenbach Explains Why Rockaway Needs Your Help Now
For the last week, MoMA PS1 director and curator Klaus Biesenbach has been actively tweeting about the devastation in the Rockaways section of Queens, which was hit hard by post-tropical cyclone Sandy. While power returned to most of lower Manhattan late Friday night and 80% of the city's subway sys