Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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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
Art
Today, join the Art Gallery of Ontario and Hyperallergic at 11 am EST for an hour-long Twitter discussion about public art.
Art
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.