Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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.
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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.
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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
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Pressure from some Bay Area Jewish groups and others have pushed the Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) in Oakland, California, to cancel A Child's View from Gaza, which is an exhibition featuring 50 art works by Palestinian children aged 9 to 11.
Opinion
Today is the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 and this edition of Required Reading is about 9/11 and the power of images.
Opinion
TMZ reports actor Jim Carrey's 1st attempt at "street art" was cleaned up by city workers but now he's "stuck it to The Man with a brand new piece."
Opinion
Today, Wooster Collective has published the above work by street artist Zevs that is only visible using UV light and was created in the actual room that the convicted 9/11 terrorists stayed in before their infamous attack. But what does this say?
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Some good news for Manhattan's Seaport Museum, which has been in financial trouble for quite some time, as they received a $2 million grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.