Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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Art
As the Eastern Seaboard continues to recover from Hurricane Sandy, those impacted by the devastating storm are slowly coming to terms with the shock of losing art, furniture and other possessions, but we want them to know there are a few resources that can possibly help them with their recovery.
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News
Today, two days after New York was struck by Post-tropical Cyclone Sandy the city's art community continues to assess the damage and what it will mean going forward. We continue our coverage today …
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Last night's major storm, which is currently being called post-tropical cyclone Sandy, delivered a wallop to New York, flooding neighborhoods across the region and shutting off power to large swathes of the metro area, including most of lower Manhattan and huge sections of New Jersey. The storm has
Art
Below are some of the notable images I encountered tonight, and I consider them a photo essay of sorts even though many of the images are not mine, but they are what I will remember about Sandy, more than the hundreds of news stories that will come out tomorrow and try to fashion a narrative for me.
Opinion
This great video tells the very detailed history of Bruegel's August/September masterpiece, "The Harvesters" (1565).
Opinion
The staff of Hyperallergic is working from their homes today since Hurricane Sandy has us all homebound awaiting what meterologists say will be a deluge … and it got us thinking about the history of flood paintings
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