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Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Art Rx
This week, go see performance in Bushwick, help the homeless of Greenpoint, learn about a new wave of feminist art, check out video art from Berlin, listen to Rhizome's major tech art meeting of the minds and explore the remains of a secret performance … and that's not all.
News
Putting the FUN in New York Nightlife
Club kids (and their art world fans) rejoice! The Museum of Arts and Design's FUN Fellowships have announced their new round of grantees.
Opinion
Why Grammar Matters in Street Art
Street artist Above intended to make a strong anti-blood diamond statement with a mural on the facade of Johannesburg's largest diamond exporter but it just sounds sexist.
Opinion
Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1B
Today, Facebook announced that it has acquired the hugely popular smartphone photo-sharing app, Instagram, and in the process further consolidating its position as the biggest visual archive in the world.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the New Aesthetic, the Steins, Creative Time's mission to push culture forward, Yung Jake's Embedded, Eggleston goes from photography to contemporary art, Klaus Biesenbach's tweets, Kickstarter vs NEA, art on The Simpsons and more.
Opinion
The Art World Plague of Unpaid Internships
It's not right that you should have so many people willing to work for free and so many more people willing to take advantage of them.
Interview
Click on My Face, It's Art
Artist Jesus Benavente has launched "Oh Hey. Whats Going On?" (2012) as an online ad, which is "about wanting to be something greater, but the realities of life preventing it from happening."
News
10th C. Cambodian Sculpture Seized from Sotheby's in NY
Yesterday, federal agents in New York moved to seize a thousand-year-old statue from Sotheby’s that a civil complaints is alleging was stolen from a Cambodian temple.
News
Video Tribute to Mike Kelley On Sat April 14 in New York
This Saturday, April 14, Electronic Arts Intermix and Dia Art Foundation have jointly organized a 12-hour video tribute to artist Mike Kelley, who passed away on February 1 at his home in South Pasadena, California.
Art
Art Rx
This week, the doctor recommends the cinematic influences of Cindy Sherman, two Bushwick shows in quirky spaces, some heady stuff about objects as commodity and more. An art show a day keeps the doctor away.
Opinion
Where Did I See Google's Project Glass Before … MoMA
The project should look quite familiar to anyone who remembers seeing Keiichi Matsuda's "Augmented (hyper) Reality: Augmented City 3D" (2010) at last year's Talk to Me show at MoMA.