Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the best thing you'll read today, the dying GIF, art auction records, the insularity of the New Aesthetic, the meaning of Edgar Degas' history paintings, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Finding Connections in the Montreal/Brooklyn Exchange
Part One in a series of posts on the Montreal leg of the continuing Montreal/Brooklyn, or Brooklyn/Montreal, exchange.
News
Creative Time Releases a Statement About the 2012 Summit Boycott
On October 12, during Creative Time's 2012 Summit we liveblogged the evolving boycott over what some people were calling a "partnership" with an Israeli organization that received funds from the Israeli government. Now the venerable arts nonprofit has released a statement regarding the event and the
Opinion
TV Network Gets Man With Art Doppelganger to Dress the Part
ABC News has convinced Max Galuppo of Bloomsbury, NJ, who was propelled into the public spotlight when Reddit users couldn't believe how much he looked like “Portrait of a Nobleman with Duelling Gauntlet” (1562) by an anonymous artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to dress up like the 16th C. I
Opinion
Two Met Members Sue Museum for "Continuing to Deceive and Defraud the Public" Over Admission Fees
Ok, we may think high museum admission fees are ridiculous but this new suit by two longtime Metropolitan Museum of Art members is over the top.
News
5 Go Brooklyn Artists Chosen for Brooklyn Museum Show
We already chimed in about GO Brooklyn's Top 10 nominees but now they field has been shaved to five artists who will be featured in an exhibition, which opens December 1, at the Brooklyn Museum.
News
4 Finds from Last Weekend's Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
Last Saturday, November 10th's Brooklyn Comics and Graphic Festival one-day fair was a packed event that featured close to a hundred exhibitors that attracted thousands of fans from across the city. The enthusiasm on the two-floors of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's church hall in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, w
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.
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,