Opinion
Zippy Abstracted Faces Replace Dull Avatars
This progressive tech company is jettisoning the generic avatar in favor of a zippy new abstracted face.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Art Rx
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
Mitt Romney Wants to Cut Already Measly Funding For the Arts
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
Earliest Known Paintings Discovered in Spain
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
Power of the Paparazzi
"' … 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
Required Reading
This week, Catherine Opie fatigue, Yayoi Kusama, David Shrigley, tall buildings and economic downturns, post-structuralism, LA architecture and color theory for kids.
News
Environmental Law Students Sue Christo Over "Industrial-Scale" Colorado Project
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.
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Qatar Buys World's Most Expensive Painting, $250M for Cézanne's The Card Players
Today we learn that the nation of Qatar, which is quietly building a very expensive collection of modern and contemporary art, acquired Paul Cézanne's "The Card Players" for the tune of $250 million in 2011.
Art
Occupy Wall Street Begins Two-Month Residency at Hyperallergic HQ
Yesterday, the Occupy Wall Street Arts & Culture Working Group, facilitated by the Space Team, began a 2-mo residency at Hyperallergic HQ in Williamsburg. The first activity will be a potluck event that takes place tomorrow, Friday, February 3.
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Luckiest Artist in the World Set to Make $200M from Facebook Stock
According to Business Insider, "[Street] artist David Choe painted the inside of Facebook's first headquarters back in 2005, and Mark Zuckerberg made him an offer: he could be paid a few thousand dollars in cash, or take the same amount in Facebook stock." Choe took the stock and now it's worth $200
Art
Art Rx
This week, our first February prescription has something for those whose masculinity ails them in the form of two shows at the Brooklyn Museum. But don't forget it's Black History month, so we also offer up a healthy dose of African and African-American identity. And finally, the Queens Internationa
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Mike Kelley Dead at 58, Apparent Suicide
Popular LA-based artist Mike Kelley has died of an apparent suicide. One of the most recognized names of the American contemporary art scene, Kelley is best known for his pop culture-infused sensibility that combined the abject with the everyday.