Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
This week, scoring US Congress on the arts, Gangnam Style opinions and facts, science looks at us looking at art, the Seattle Art Museum goes all female, the highest skyscraper is going to be built in five months, Daniel Liebeskind is not an architect, and more.
Art
It's that time of year again and this is our warning not to (or are we encouraging you?) dress your children like you hate them but love art. Here are a few ideas.
Interview
Times Square is one of the things New Yorkers love to hate. It has come to be one of the most defining aspects of our great city but it repeals its inhabitants with the reputation of being a kitsch-filled tourist magnet with little to offer other than discount deals on Broadway shows and garish bill
Opinion
This week, the difficulty of selling stolen paintings, what art forgers paint in their down time, Picasso's 17 year old lover, the "meaning" of hotels, the state of political art, the lives of the 1%, and more.
Art
This weekend, a slice of our New York community will be traveling to Canada for Brooklyn Montreal, a two-city festival celebrating contemporary art.
Announcement
Brooklyn artist Scott Campbell [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/37863/29176/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/52912/0] is a typical New York creative in that he's passionate about his eclectic tastes and interests. One of his loves is a Monday night radio show on East Village Radio by th
News
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's "Electric Cord" (1961), which mysteriously disappeared in January 1970, has been found.
Opinion
Some Williamburgers aren't happy with the idea of a Romney presidency but they're not exactly thrilled with Obama either.
Opinion
In these fascinating series of works, Hungarian new media artist Bence Hajdu has removed the figures from a series of Old Masters classics with such precision that it's almost hard to believe.
Performance
Last night and tonight, the Guggenheim is staging two special, performance-like readings of Pablo Picasso’s obscure play, “Desire Caught by the Tail,” as part of the museum’s Works & Process series.
Announcement
Out of all the human senses, taste is often the least understood. Some of us eat purely to sustain ourselves, while others eat as a central joy in their lives. Now a new interdisciplinary conference seeks to focus on desire's palate, and taste is being placed under the microscope as an important par
Opinion
This week, Nobel prize controversy, artists do science, Creative Time Summit fallout, Ai Weiwei in DC, the ethics of vandalizing art, and more.