Opinion
Beyoncé Art Tumblr?
Gawker has discovered Beyoncé's tumblelog and writer Caity Weaver thinks it's art … or something.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, decommissioning public art, Paula Cooper and Larry Gagosian speak, the mosaic man of the East Village, the Vancouver Art Gallery has a radical idea, Warhol's grave and more …
News
Airport Patrons Can't Stand When Picasso Bares It All
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
Michigan Stats Suggest Every $1 Invested in the Arts Yields $51 for Economy
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
Boston Mural Proves to be "Rorschach Test for Idiots and Racists"
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
The Avant/Garde Diaries: Aaron Rose Talks Watts Towers
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
Introducing the Hyperallergic Art Library T-shirts
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
Influential Art Critic Robert Hughes, 74, Dies
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
Brace Yourselves, Lady Gaga Goes ARTPOP
Lady Gaga awoke yesterday and calculated decided to share the name of her new album with the world … lucky us …
Opinion
Required Reading
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
Did the Cold War Ever End?
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
Jeff Koons' Pseudo-Spiritual Explanation of Art on Colbert Nation
Koons was on Colbert last night and his discussion of art came across as pseudo-spiritual at best.