Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
News
A Scottish airport has backtracked on its decision to cover up a poster promoting an exhibition at the Scottish Museum of Modern Art that featured Picasso's "Nude Woman In a Red Armchair" (1932).
Opinion
Yesterday's voter booth success definitely helps to ensure a more financially secure Detroit Institue of Arts, but you can be assured that its passage wasn't because of some innate sense of arts patronage among Michiganders but a victory based on educating voters about the facts.
Opinion
Last week, the Brazilian street art twins, Os Gemeos, unveiled their new mural on Boston’s Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway at Dewey Square and Fox Boston couldn't resist suggesting the work portrayed some sort of controversial figure and like moths to a flame the xenophobes and anti-Muslim bigots c
Announcement
It's impossible to forget the first time you visit Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. I remember being confronted by the beauty of the spires that look dreamlike and fragile at first until you realize how strong and robust they in fact are upon closer inspection. Th
Hyperallergic
Today is the day! Hyperallergic has launched the first edition of our Art Library series with five titles by some of the innovators of art writing.
News
Australian-born New York art critic Robert Hughes passed away today at the Calvary Hospital in the Bronx after a long battle with illness.
Opinion
Lady Gaga awoke yesterday and calculated decided to share the name of her new album with the world … lucky us …
Opinion
This week, a lost Raphael may be found, Ai Weiwei gives London Olympics a thumbs up, the Tea Party's favorite artist, Iran's amazing modern and contemporary art collections and more.
Interview
While the Cold War may have ended over two decades ago, at least according to Wikipedia, no one can deny its legacy in the contemporary world. But what does it mean that American "won" the Cold War? A new project seeks to find that out.
Opinion
Koons was on Colbert last night and his discussion of art came across as pseudo-spiritual at best.
Opinion
This week, Syrian heritage under threat, invisible art, Franz West remembrance, Etsy's feminist disappointment, Ai Weiwei as Warhol, fashion criticism and more.
News
The stories of tragedy continue to roll out of Syria, though some have been disproven or highly doubted as Western propaganda, many are certainly true and now we learn of the death of the Syrian sculptor, Wael Kaston, 46, who was killed earlier this week in Homs, Syria, under what is believed to be