Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
News
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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Hyperallergic is off to Miami today for the art fairs. Expect daily updates with photos, commentary, observations and news. See you in Miami.
Opinion
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
News
Today, Guggenheim announced the following finalists for the 2012 Hugh Prize: Trisha Donnelly, Rashid Johnson, Qiu Zhijie, Monika Sosnowska, Danh Vo and Tris Vonna-Michell.
Art
This past weekend I was in St. Petersburg, Russia for the "Art & Reality" conference. During that trip I had the pleasure of taking some time off to visit the world-renowed Hermitage museum. For my first post about the Hermitage, I wanted to post a series of images of interiors that give a sense of
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"White Ambassador" is a provocative title for an art work in America and it is the title of artist Nate Hill's latest work that tackles race.