Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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Over the last few years Woodward Gallery has been transforming their stretch of Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side into a lively hotspot with regularly packed art openings, a rotating outdoor street art venue and now a bar named Ghost.
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This March 28, Pocket Utopia will return to the New York art scene but this time on Henry Street in the Lower East Side. During its first incarnation the idea of Pocket Utopia, which is the brain child of artist Austin Thomas, opened on Flushing Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn in the Summer 2007 and co
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People can be forgiven for not realizing that one of the masterpieces of Brutalism, an architectural style with a name that isn't exactly soft and fuzzy, is just north of New York City in Orange County, New York. But then again you may not need to remember that fact since the Paul Rudolph-designed O
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Last October, we reported about the death of Williamsburg artist Mathieu Lefevre, who was killed by a truck. Now, recently discovered court documents explain why the NYPD's Accident Investigation Squad decided not to charge the truck driver who ran over cyclist Lefevre. It's worth mentioning that th
Opinion
Artist Michelle Vaughan continues to render tweets into letterpress. Her 100 Tweets project was the first to give the quips of the twitteratti some permanence in print but now the queen of the twitter press has created a small series devoted to the dark lord of right-wing news media himself, Rupert
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Some notable quotations from this Guardian interview with the richest artist in the world — his wealth is estimated at £215m (approx. $336m) …
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This week is an ALL VIDEO Required Reading. From the GIF to Dali, from Cindy Sherman to the anthropology of YouTube, this is the way to spend a leisurely Sunday.
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Saturday, March 10 is Brooklyn Armory Night, but it's also Beat Nite in Bushwick, Greenpointers' Greenpoint Gallery Crawl and a great night to check out Williamsburg's own send up of the art fair itself, Arts Not Fair. And we have some maps that will make it all easier for you!
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This week, we've compiled an easy to use 2012 New York art fair reference guide. They're all here with limited commentary but we've graded them out of a possible five stars based on past experiences at the fairs and buzz.
Opinion
In the Armory Modern section of this year's Armory Art Fair, a work by Chilean artist Sebastian Errazuriz has taken the typography of wording of Occupy Wall Street signs and printed them as black lettering onto pristine white folding chairs. The effect was immediately disturbing but the artist's exp
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Last night's panel event at Storefront for Art and Architecture was a heady affair. A group of panelists, myself include, sat inside the Vito Acconci-designed structure while a 30-foot David sculpture by Serkan Özkaya lay horizontal on a flat bed outside on Kenmare Street.
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It's just another day in the life of the art world and we just learned that New York-based Canadian art legend AA Bronson will be ritually blessing New York/Shanghai/Rotterdam-based Defne Ayas' new program at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.