Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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."
Opinion
Last week, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published an image of Mohammad on its cover saying, "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!" Sadly, some right-wing muslim zealots firebombed the headquarters of the magazine, but don't think that shut up the publication. No siree, this week t
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We’ve covered the way members of Occupy Wall Street have grappled with the Mark di Suvero sculpture at the corner of Zuccotti Park. They’ve called it a “weird red thing” and some think of it as corporate art, but now the Arts and Culture Working Group of OWS is making an appeal to the artist to help
News
It's the centennial of the birth of the 40th US President, Ronald Reagan, and coast to coast statues of the Old Gipper are making news but for very different reasons.
Opinion
This week, the lowdown on Mark di Suvero's radical history, Terry Richardson's parents, street art in Cairo, Miami and without spray paint, word clouds and some erotic Austrian art of yesteryear … and some other great links.
News
On Monday, Palestinians were finally admitted to the cultural body of the United Nations, UNESCO, as a full member. The move, which ignited the ire of the United States and Israel, allows the Palestinian government to apply for historic monuments and locations to be classified as World Heritage Site
Opinion
We knew Mauricio Cattelan's retrospective at New York's Guggenheim was going to be an attention grabber, but the installation tweeted today by the museum demonstrates that the curatorial team has taken the idea to a whole different level.
Performance
Tuesday night's premiere of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset's "Happy Days in the Art World" at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts kicked off this year's Performa "new visual art performance biennial." A commissioned work, the piece was clearly a work of theatre and not performance art,
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If you thought the recession stopped the architectural boomtown that is North Brooklyn, then you'll have to think again. If Bushwick is getting all the buzz because of the art-borhood that is sprouting up there, the experiments in architectural verticality are happening a little west in Williamsburg
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We posted about the Abstract Expressionist print auction last week at Swann Auction House in New York and today we learn that Jackson Pollock's "Untitled" (c.1944-45), set a print record for the artist.
News
After having been released on bail in June, Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei received a notice today from Chinese authorities that indicates he owes $2.3 million (15 million yuan) for "tax evasion."
Opinion
An age-old question we've pondering endlessly is now an online quiz by Graydon Parrish and Mikhail Simkin over at Reverent Entertainment.