Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Oh, brother. Artist Scott LoBaido is "disgusted by the constant bashing of Catholicism" by a "publicly funded institute," so he decided to haul his painting of a naked Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman and a toilet to said institution and filmed it! No word on his thoughts about the constant ba
Opinion
Holy shit, I can't believe how bad someone who shows at Gagosian can be. Honestly, WTF!?!?! I love embracing artists of all stripes but this dude essentially makes high-brow-ish fan art.
News
Since this morning's raid of Zuccotti Park, where the Occupy Wall Street movement began, there have been questions about the state of the movement's symbolic 5,000+ book library.
News
Last Friday, artist Ophelia Chong had the kind of day most artist's dread. On that fateful day she was told by one of her students that Starbucks was using graphics that looked a great deal like hers that … well, judge for yourself.
Opinion
I've got the Mixel bug. Since I logged onto the image creating site, I've been enjoying the zany energy of this iPad-based collage system and all that it offers. I thought I'd have some fun and try creating collages based on some of the biggest art stories of the last week or so. Here's my Mixel-ed
Opinion
This week, how a Caravaggio becomes "discovered" and evaluated, Christo gets the green light for Colorado, artists who seek out their harshest critics, Terence Conran, erasing a Chris Martin, escaping the digital world, Occupy Miami art schools, street art in Iran and is politics performance art?
News
The final text and signatories of Yvonne Rainer's letter to Jeffrey Deitch/MOCA protesting Marina Abramović's performance for the MOCA gala is on the Artforum website [http://artforum.com/news/#news29378]. There are 50 signatures on the letter.
Opinion
Brooklyn art gallery hopping can be challenging for the uninitiated who need the comfort of neat grids and clearly numbered streets to find their way around. My first advice, "Stay in Manhattan, we don't want you here," but if you refuse to listent then may I suggest the new "Art & Absinthe Guide to
Art
The brainchild of Scott Ostler, co-founder of the image-sharing site Dump.fm, and Khoi Vinh, a former design director of NYTimes.com, Mixel is a free iPad app that may just be a game changer in the world of online images. Sure, we've heard it all before, another service that promises to change it al
News
Since Marina Abramović was picked to provide the entertainment for LA MOCA's upcoming gala we've all been wondering what the performance art queen would conjure up to do her bidding. Now, we kind of know and it raises some serious questions, namely, is performance art ever an excuse for labor abuse?
Opinion
Anyone who loves the funny pages will know the work of Bill Keane, who is best remembered for Family Circus, a long running cartoon series that celebrated family life and inspired many spoofs that were equally funny (even if some were much more demented, like Dysfuntional Family Circus, or really ph
News
In today's dose of art history geek news, we turn to the Daily Mail, which reports that "art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous [13th C.] frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi."