Opinion
Why is Romney Picking on Big Bird?
Yesterday's US Presidential debate highlighted Republican candidate Mitt Romney's ridiculous plan to cut the budget of the much loved public television channel, PBS.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
The New Yorker Wades into "Curator" Confusion
This week's New Yorker takes a shot at the craze to "curate" everything in our lives.
Art
Hitler's Wanted Poster and Other Visual Snapshots of New York During WWII
The New-York Historical Society has a massive show that explores the role of New York in World War II, WWII & NYC. While the front lines of the Second World War raged across the oceans, the great American metropolis gave more than most as it mobilized its citizenry, its resources, and its elites to
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Required Reading
This week, a new younger Mona Lisa, 1%ers using art as business collateral, image rights stupidity, Klaus in WSJ, a very green museum, Nazi Buddist space sculpture, a fake Basquiat, and more
Art
Amazing New Graph Drawing Charts the Birth of Abstraction
The invention of abstraction was not the inspiration of a solitary protagonist, but a relay of ideas that moved through a network of artists and intellectuals working in different countries and different media and MoMA's new graph drawing shows it in all its beauty.
Opinion
Museum of Sex Offers Tim Tebow a Lifetime Membership
Sure, it's probably a publicity stunt but we love the idea that the Museum of Sex in New York is offering a lifetime membership to infamously virgin football player Tim Tebow.
Art
Celebrate Hyperallergic's Third Anniversary at The House Party on Fri Oct 5
On Friday, October 5, starting at 8pm, Hyperallergic will be celebrating its Third Anniversary with a party at Andrew Ohanesian's "The House Party" in Pierogi Boiler … and you need to come!
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Salman Rushdie reflects on the 1989 fatwa, MOCA watchers psychoanalyze Eli Broad, Charlie Hebdo draws Muhammad again, GQ goes to ArtPrize, Tino Sehgal in the Tate's Turbine Hall and more.
Opinion
Apple's Amazingly Artistic iOS6 Maps
You don't really want your maps to be "artistic" renderings of reality, we all prefer them accurate, but the recent release of Apple's iOS6 maps is proving more artistic fiction rather than fact.
Opinion
Colbert Report Takes on Beast Jesus Master
The tragic/demented/whatever-it-is story of Cecilia Gimenez has entered a new phases of its pop culture notoriety when last night Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report took on the Spanish restoration "master."
News
In Bizarre Turn of Events, Beast Jesus Maker Demands Royalties
In what can only be described as the most unbelievable turn of events around the Beast Jesus debacle, Techdirt says the woman at the center of the global sensation is claiming copyright and wants a cut of the tourist money bonanza that has hit the small Spanish church.
News
The Scream Goes on View at MoMA on Oct 24
Edvard Munch’s iconic "The Scream" (1895), among the most celebrated and recognized images in art history, will go on view at The Museum of Modern Art for a period of six months beginning October 24.