Opinion
Wrapping Up 2011
In the next few weeks we'll be posting our end-of-year reflections but we just wanted to take some time out and thank you, our readers, for helping us make this year our best yet.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, architectural drama, Voina arrests, Gerhard Richter at the Tate Modern, image search tools that will change your life, plagiarism and cartoonists and a chromatic typewriter.
Opinion
Ice Cube Gives Props to the Eames
Yet another Pacific Standard Time celebrity video, but this one features the unlikely pairing of rapper Ice Cube (aka O’Shea Jackson) with the architecture of Charles and Ray Eames.
News
Will Next Year's ArtPrize Be Different?
Today, ArtPrize, which bills itself as the most "radically open, international art competition and social experiment," announced it will be rejiggering its financial offerings to competitors with a more robust juried prize and less (but still) spectacular populist award.
Opinion
Martin Boyce Snags Turner Prize … if you care
I have trouble getting excited by the Turner Prize anymore. British art isn't as central to the art dialogue as it once was a decade ago so it is feeling more and more like a regional contest. Congrats to Martin Boyce anyway. You can read more on BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-160
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Charles Saatchi drops a bomb, can art portray the economic crisis, public art in New York, Knoedler closes, a giant forgery scandal and sales from the 2011 Miami art fairs.
Opinion
Girlfriend of NY Mayor Tells Sotheby's Art Handlers to Eat Cake
DNAinfo points to a YouTube video that shows the locked out Sotheby's art handlers and members of Occupy Wall Street confronting Diana Taylor, the partner of New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and a member of the Sotheby’s board, at the December 1st meeting of Hudson River Park Trust. It's not good for T
Art
Torres Garcia to the Left of Me, Torres Garcia to the Right of Me
MIAMI — Every year art watchers see trends. Many of these are more about the commentator's interests and fixations than anything real. This year, I kept seeing works by great Uruguayan modernist Joaquín Torres García.
Art
Hermitage Invites Contemporary Artist into Their Permanent Collection
MIAMI — For the first time, a contemporary artist has been invited to play with the permanent collection at the fabled Hermitage. Anthony Gormley tackles the museum's classical collection and creates a humanizing display.
Art
Your Guide to Guides to the 2011 Miami Art Fairs
So, as a service to you (and ourselves) we've compiled a help guide to all the guides we could find to the 2011 Miami art fairs.
Art
We're Off to Miami Today!
Hyperallergic is off to Miami today for the art fairs. Expect daily updates with photos, commentary, observations and news. See you in Miami.
Opinion
Debate About Performance Artist Pay and Rights Gains Steam
The debate surrounding performance art and the rights of artists has started to grow past the original controversy initiated by Marina Abramović’s gala performance for LA MOCA earlier this month. Now, three reperformers who took part in MoMA's Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present retrospective la