Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
On the occasion of the Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Drawings exhibition at LACMA, the museum has posted a four-minute segment from a longer conversation between the artist and curators Stephanie Barron and Britt Salvesen.
Art
Hurry, hide … this weekend Bushwick will be changing forever! If it's not the invasion by Chelsea's Luhring Augustine Gallery, then it's the Chelsea show by a loooong list of Bushwick artists. Or maybe nothing will change but we suggest you take your medicine anyway.
Art
We listed tonight's #ArtsTech social media art panel in last week's Art Rx and — as expected — it's sold out! Over 125 people have RSVPs and the waiting list is 75 people deep. Thankfully the group has decided to livestream the event tonight between 7:30 and 9pm EST.
Opinion
May this video put an end to the idea that Dada is all about impractical fun and games. It seems that Marcel Duchamp, like Leonardo da Vinci, was just ahead of his time.
Opinion
This week, VIP art fair, Gugg Berlin closing, Lucian Freud and Yayoi Kusama in London, ideology and housing projects, biodegradable Legos, elderly hipsters (circa 2062) talk about social media and Murakami in Qatar.
Opinion
This progressive tech company is jettisoning the generic avatar in favor of a zippy new abstracted face.
Art
This week's prescription includes a couple of group shows to booster your immunity, an exhibition of indie music videos that will soothe your soul, a show by an artist into drawing little girls, a fashion week intervention, a Valentine’s Day-related show and a social media art panel that will make y
Opinion
Today’s shocker: A Republican Who Wants to Cut Arts Funding! GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has penned an Op-Ed for the USA Today newspaper that takes aim at the battered National Endowment for the Arts.
Opinion
While we once believed that art was the exclusive domain of the more evolved Homo Sapiens Sapiens but the latest find suggests that the earliest known painting was created by Homo Neanderthalensis. So, maybe you should think twice before calling someone a Neanderthal.
Opinion
"' … anywhere from 50 to 60 percent of images that are sold into media these days are entertainment images,' most of them taken by paparazzi." [SpiegelOnline]
Opinion
This week, Catherine Opie fatigue, Yayoi Kusama, David Shrigley, tall buildings and economic downturns, post-structuralism, LA architecture and color theory for kids.
News
This week, students at Denver University's Environmental Law Clinic have taken action to block artist Christo's massive "Over the River" project to be built almost entirely within the federally-protected Arkansas Canyonlands Area of Colorado.