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.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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.
Opinion
The NY Times Gets a Front Page GIF
This isn't the first animated GIF that has appeared on NYTimes.com but it may be the first to grace the homepage front and center.
News
BMW Guggenheim Lab Finds Safety in a More Gentrified Berlin Locale
Last month, we reported on the controversial location of the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin's punkrock/activist/multiculti/graff neighborhood, and now, Spiegel Online reports they've settled on Prenzlauer Berg,
News
Google Art Project Bursting at the Seams with 100+ New Museums
Google Art Project launched last year with 17 institutions but today the number has ballooned to 100+.
Opinion
What the 60 Minutes Segment on the Art Market Really Said
We've refrained from reflecting on the 60 Minutes segment by Morley Safer about the art world market. But since others like Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith have waded into the commentary cesspool we decided to give you a complete analysis of what was said on Sunday's program. Read carefully.