Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Let's all agree on one thing, if you have to use the term "world-class" then you probably aren't, but that's not to say that Arkansas's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art isn't going to make a splash next month when it opens in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Art
Just over two weeks ago, a story about an excavated Banksy in Berlin ricocheted across the global media. Most of the coverage featured closely cropped smiley faced riot police and the name "Banksy" screamed in the media coverage. From the tone of the coverage and the emphasis on the discovery of a l
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News
Is the anything Olek won't crochet? Is anyone or thing safe from her maniacal need to cover things up? Another question we're pondering, do we like Bernard Rosenthal's "Alamo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_(sculpture)]" (1967) better this way? Hmmm …
News
The City of Brotherly Love must love supersized objects because they now have a fourth large-scale art work by Pop art master Claes Oldenburg.
Interview
If you're near Columbia University, there's an art show that sounds worthwhile exploring and it's devoted to water. The Cathedral of St. John, which has long had an established art program, is tackling the topic of H2O in their current art show that features some major artists, including Jenny Holze
Opinion
This week … Warhol's Headline works, a 2003 interview with Sol LeWitt, Twitter paintings by Evan Roth, Kapoor & Isozaki partner for an inflatable concert hall, world's earliest Christian inscription is identified, Gagosian's Madison Ave shop closes, NY pics from 1974, color TV spots from the 1960s a
News
Discontent is stirring in New England's biggest city, and today a rally called Take Back Boston began. In preparation for the big event, local activists have outfitted 13 bus shelters with images that make them resemble foreclosed homes.
News
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Art
There are moments in all great protests that propel it into the mainstream, what they do with it is up to its supporters. Today just may be the day that Occupy Wall Street gets it's moment, then again maybe not, but what seems sure at this point is that it may happen very soon.
News
We received this note yesterday from a Hyperallergic reader: "Bob Cassilly died … His bulldozer tumbled down a rocky hill, flipping over a bunch of times while he was in it. He was a pretty tough guy. He turned a giant shoe factory in St. Louis into The City Museum. A wonderland of potential lawsuit
Art
I ran to Times Square this morning to catch a glimpse of artist Zefrey Throwell's latest incarnation of his performance series, Midtown Games, but a missed subway connection which delayed my arrival a few minutes making me late to witness the artistic/athletic spectacle. Luckily, I tracked down Thro
News
Teamsters representatives have been circulating a letter to Chelsea galleries indicating that they will be protesting jobs by Crozier Fine Arts, who they say have crossed their picket line by partly replacing their workers at Sotheby's. The Teamster are finding back and threatening to protest all fu