Art
A Journey Through Northside Art 2012
This week's Northside Art was a combination block party and studio crawl and here some of the many things I saw.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Marina Abramović fesses up, the art economy (kinda) explained, online artists and the viral tendency, violence against women in a magazine editorial, the economic insanity of art fairs, top 10 books that were lost to time, Kenyan street artists strike at corrupt politicians and more.
Art
Oldest Confirmed Cave Art Is a Single Red Dot
Neanderthal Minimalism? Are contemporary dot-errific artists Yayoi Kusama and Damien Hirst being subconsciously influenced by their prehistoric ancestors? Or did some prehistoric gallery forget to remove one of their little red "sold" dots after a major exhibition? The fact is that our understanding
News
Will Thomas Kinkade's Museum Be Founded Based on a Scratchy Note?
Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus, the American republic empire republic was founded on the US Constitution, hell, even Apple had a "founding document" but the legacy of the "Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade may be decided by two scratchy letters written late last year to his lover in a script t
Interview
The Scaffolding Saints of the Lower East Side
Tom Sanford and Graham Preston's latest project, "Saints of the Lower East Side" (2012), remembers "when," or more precisely marches out some of the progressive history of an area that has been mostly reduced to cool tshirts from a bygone era.
Art
9 Artists to Watch from the 2012 Bushwick Open Studios
I've compiled a list of nine artists I think deserve more attention as some of the rising stars of the Bushwick scene.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the Corcoran Museum considers a move to the 'burbs, Caribbean art in New York, a guide to the Serpentine pavilions, Gavras's "disingenuous, superficial, irresponsible" video for Kanye & Jay-Z and more.
News
"The Lightning Field" Getting First Ever Conservation Treatment
Today, DIA disseminated the news that during spring 2013 Walter De Maria's seminal "The Lightning Field" (1977), one of the foundation's earliest commissions, will be receiving its first major preservation treatment in the artwork's history.
Art
iPhone Rothkos
Some New Yorkers read or stare out the window during subway rides, Derek Brahney draws iPhone Rothkos.
Opinion
Twitter Transforms Its Logo Into Sleeker, Balder Birdie
Today the micro-blogging service has unveiled its sleeker and more feather-less — not to mention slightly darker — blue logo.
News
Archeologist Uncovers Oldest Rock Art, Exclaims "Oh #$@&! A Vulva"
The new discovery, uncovered at a site called Abri Castanet in France, consists mainly of circular carvings most likely meant to represent the vulva.
News
Largest Contemporary Glass Museum to Open in Upstate NY
The Corning Museum of Glass has unveiled plans to expand their museum with a 100,000-square-foot expansion designed by architect Thomas Phifer and Partners, the team who completed the award-winning North Carolina Museum of Art that was described by one architectural writer as a "museum building that