Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
The weather in nice in New York and there's lots to see. From MFA shows at Hunter & Columbia to a new solo show by Cindy Sherman and an exhibition that responds to the murder of Trayvon Martin so get out of your house or apartment and see art.
Art
Like almost every April 24th I can remember, on Tuesday, the day people commemorate the Armenian Genocide, I sought solace in my thoughts and searched for a way to mark the occasion.
News
Adam Simon's Steal This Art doesn't really mean it. Too bad the culprit didn't know that.
Opinion
This week, Keith Haring in the Village, painter chic, 10 songs that saved (an artist's) life, Kehinde Wiley's unsettling Israeli show, de Kooning's "source," Monet's ultraviolet vision, Chinese-American photography, architectural stationary and more.
Opinion
"A security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art accidentally shot himself in the leg while cleaning his gun inside the famed Upper East Side institution this afternoon … A spokesman for the museum described the accidental shooting in a locker room as a 'freak accident' and said the public was ne
Art
While many people know Magritte's Surrealist art, most probably don't know his Art Deco commercial work.
Art
From Bushwick to Chelsea, from the Upper to Lower East Side, we have a list of shows you need to see.
News
Various news services are reporting that a museum in Italy is waging an "art war" in protest of funding cuts and they've started burning 1,000 artworks.
News
A Brooklyn antiquities dealer Mousa Khouli, 38, pleaded guilty today to smuggling Egyptian cultural property into the United States and making a false statement to law enforcement authorities.
Art
In the last few days, Afro-Swedish artist Makode Linde has learned the power of the viral web. His controversial cake performance at Stockholm's Moderna Museet has ricocheted around the world and has garnered reactions of all types from support of his edgy gesture to raise awareness about female gen
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News
The Swedish culture minister has been widely criticized for participating in the Moderna Museet's "cake party" featuring Swedish artist Makode Aj Linde "dressed" as a female black African caricature.
Opinion
This week, reflections on the death of Thomas Kinkade, the real-life location of The Simpsons's Springfield, Ai Weiwei sues Chinese tax collectors, Beijing's "rat tribe," Snarkitecture, a Keith Haring mural is threatened in Paris, a look at Exit art, the average age of social media users and cats im