Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
It's hard to believe that Recess Art, the Soho-based nonprofit, is only three years old and has already made significant waves in the city's art scene as a place where artists are free to explore process in every which way. "It's a space where you realize projects you can't realize anywhere else," f
Art
An animated GIF tells you what you need to know from last night's Creative Time party.
Opinion
Artist John Baldessari asked Tom Waits to narrate his short history and it's pretty funny.
Opinion
The Getty Museum has come up with a video to demonstrate how to save your precious sculptures during an earthquake. Thanks, Getty!
Opinion
You have to wonder if something is edgy anymore if a fashion label can quickly flip the "transgression" into merchandise within a few days. Case in point … Kidult v. Marc Jacobs.
Opinion
This week, face recognition software may help art historians solve mysteries, Picasso's lover gets a Gagosian show, the New Aesthetic debate continues, the French elections and art, street art in Houston, Kiki Smith interviews Jenny Holzer and more.
Interview
Painter, author and critic Mira Schor's current show at Marvelli Gallery delves into the world of language. The show is titled Voice and Speech, but there's an erie silence to these works.
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Opinion
The Hartford Courant reports that one of the world's great unsolved art thefts may have a new lead.
Opinion
Where are the arts donors and why aren't they pressuring Washington?
Art
This week, the doctor wants you to travel. From the Upper East Side to the art-borhood of Ridgewood, Queens, you have a long way to go before you get over whatever it is you have.
Opinion
It seems fitting that artist Yayoi Kusama's characteristic polka dots appear in a children's book and in the trippy Alice in Wonderland no less.
News
A Queens neighborhood, with the help of the Queens Museum of Art, is coming into its artified own.