Opinion
The Corporate Sponsorship of Baby X
Yesterday, Bushwick artist Marni Kotak emailed a video of her baby, Baby X (aka Ajax), and the announcement that he has a new corporate sponsorship tattoo.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Koons' hanging train, Mona Lisa dates change, Bloomberg gets its name on Hirshhorn balloon, 20 must-see artist websites, the exit of Exit Art, the Dictionary of American Regional English is complete, 60 Minutes to tackle contemporary art and more …
News
Bronx Museum Is Free, Sets Goal to Raise Attendance by 50% in 2012
If the price of everything is going up, it's nice to see when some things go down in cost, even if it's only temporary. The Bronx Museum announced this week that they will be dropping their admission fee in an effort to increase their attendance and reach out to members of the community who haven't
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MTV's New Art Spots Have Potential to Reach 600M Viewers
MTV is trying to rekindle the "visual playground" of the 1980s and they hope the new art commercials by Rashaad Newsome, Mickalene Thomas, Tala Madani, Jani Ruscica and Mads Lynnerup will help them do it.
Art
Art Rx
This week, a major photo show lands on Park Ave, a show explores post-Stonewall gay and lesbian art, Atget is in its final week at the Modern, a show about Modernist Indian art is worth a look and more …
News
Met Museum Gets $20M from Astor Estate but Childe Hassam Painting Still Missing
When 1%-ers die, their deaths take far longer than then the deaths of 99%-ers. If their memories don't linger among their friends and family — or at least their family foundations — then at least their afterlives continue in the courts for years, if not longer.
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Dutch Museum Uncovers Van Gogh, Chinese Collector Buys Van Gogh's House
It's the dream of any museum to discover that a once dismissed painting in their collection is actually the work of a Master. That scenario recently played out for the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands when a team of researchers from used x-ray techniques to determine that Vincent Van Go
Opinion
Clement Greenberg in Tweetable Form
The fad for fake art personas has passed. They were soo 2010, though they lingered into 2011. Perhaps tired of the fakery, someone has decided to rekindle the words of the maestro of Modernism into 140 characters or less, @Clem_Greenberg.
Opinion
The Gagosian Gallery Email the Art World Can't Get Enough Of
We all know that Gagosian Gallery is the Death Star of the art world. They are perceived as the enemy of any art-loving person who doesn't want to think about dollar signs with their art, well, unless they're silkscreened by Warhol on canvas. And now The New York Times' Randy Kennedy has done us all
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Critic Hilton Kramer Dies at 84
Love him or hate him, there's no denying the influence of conservative art critic Hilton Kramer. A longtime champion of modernism and a harsh critic of contemporary art, Kramer died this morning in Harpswell, Maine.
Art
Join Us Wed March 28 for a Discussion of OWS and Performance Art
Please join us for a discussion about performance art and Occupy Wall Street. From the early days of OWS performance art and artists have played a pivotal role in raising awareness about OWS and its importance.
Art
Speechless: The Commons at Botanic Gallery
Speechless is an evolving series that reviews, discusses and/or comments on art works and exhibitions using images, screenshots, videos and other visuals.