Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Interview
Pippin Barr works and teaches at the Center for Computer Game Research at IT University in Copenhagen, and readers of Hyperallergic will know him as the guy who created "The Artist Is Present" video game, which has already become an online sensation. I caught up with Barr online to ask him about "Th
Art
Among the surprises at the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, is an exquisite room of early Matisses that will blow your mind.
Opinion
This week … insights into Ai Weiwei's photos, photos of Japan's gangs, aesthetics of interactive space, William Gibson on cities, fake Guggenheims, superhero costumes, art thefts in Toronto, vintage street art & graffiti spots in New York.
Art
Today, we opened our office to three artists who are the core of Seeking Kali, a collaborative project by William Evertson (US), Ria Vanden Eynde (Belgium) and Susan Shulman (Canada).
News
Keith Haring: 1978-1982, the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-loved American artists of last century will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from April 13 through August 5, 2012.
Opinion
Didn't get your chance to sit with Marina Abramović during her The Artist Is Present performance at MoMA? Don't worry, Copenhagen-based Pippin Barr has given you a second chance in the form of The Artist Is Present: The Video Game. He's also updated the whole thing so you have to pay $25 to get into
Opinion
The idea of ArtPrize as an "open art contest" sounds fantastic, hell, even awesome, but if you thought all the art was going to be good than you were delusional. Enter ArtPrize Worst, the tumblelog. A selection of crappy art that thought it had a chance at the world's biggest art purse.
News
Artist Brad Downey's latest art project excavated the classic 2003 Banksy mural titled, "Every Picture Tells a Lie," for an exhibition in Berlin. What will happen to the work, which restorers uncovered by scraping away more than a dozen layers of paint, no one knows yet.
News
This fall there's a lot to do in north Brooklyn, and we provided a run down of 10 local things we consider important to your "outside the white box" artistic diet.
Opinion
Today in your dose of "WOW," Viennese/Croatian design collective Numen/For Use create impressive webs in outdoor and indoor spaces using tape.
Opinion
Oh look, it's a promo video featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis and famed painter Ed Ruscha driving in a car (it's LA, after all) and providing soundbites about art.
Art
I admit it, sometimes I'm slow to post something. Case in point, my article on the 2011 Bushwick Open Studios was published in the summer edition of the Brooklyn Rail but I never got around the publishing in here. So, here I go. Posting this piece I wrote before summer started right before the seaso