Art
Art Rx
From Bushwick to Chelsea, from the Upper to Lower East Side, we have a list of shows you need to see.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
News
Museum Plans to Burn 1,000 Art Works to Protest Cuts
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
Dealer Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Egyptian Antiquities into US
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
Controversial Afro-Swedish Artist Speaks, "It's a Disturbing Picture But It's Also a Disturbing Subject"
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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Swedish Minister Caught in "Racist" Food Art Performance [UPDATED: Museum Closed Due to Bomb Threat]
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
Required Reading
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
Art
Join Our Twitter Conversation with the AGO Today at 11am EST
Today, join the Art Gallery of Ontario and Hyperallergic at 11 am EST for an hour-long Twitter discussion about public art.
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.