Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
I admit to being a voyeur when I travel to museums. I love to watch people looking at art, trying to figure out what they are seeing, responding to or connecting with when confronted with the objects and ideas in art museums.
Opinion
If LA's Museum of Contemporary Art thought street art was a panacea to all its attendance wooes they may want to think again. Sure, there were often lines around the block for the show but the LA Times's Culture Monster blog crunched the numbers and came up with this …
News
The BBC reports [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14487328] that a source close to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei says the artist thought he was "'close to death' during the more than 80 days he was held in a secret police detention centre."
News
Berlin's major Egyptian Museum will be loaning a ten-foot-tall, almost nine-ton, 4,000-year-old regal sculpture to the Metropolitan Museum for tens years. It goes on display "later this month."
Opinion
In a classic press move, the New York Observer has gotten their hands on the proposed new stockier design for Jean Nouvel's MoMA tower through a public information request. Here's the skinny.
Art
Paris — I'm traveling today, so there may be less posts than usual but I couldn't resist sharing one of the games I love to play in museums. I choose a theme, topic, color or some other attribute and walk through finding it in the collection.
Opinion
This week's Required Reading … Banksy on UK phone-tapping scandal, Hirst-a-palooza at Gagosian Galleries worldwide, affordable Warhols, what do you do with a stolen art work, Sam Maloof, Hans Hoffmann as art teacher, how the "Mona Lisa"'s became famous and the problem with "minorities."
News
Seems so … just started about 45 minutes ago. First Google Plus [http://hyperallergic.com/30531/ai-weiwei-google-plus/] and now this … hmmmm
Opinion
This makes my blood boil. Coincidentally, the NEA (for those who may not know) is the National Endowment for the Arts [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts]. Article linked to in the tweet here [http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/01/markets/debt_ceiling_treasury_bills/index.htm]. [
Interview
Last week, I visited MoMA's new exhibition, Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Object and spoke to the institution's senior curator of design and architecture, Paola Antonelli, about the show, some poignant objects, the American insecurity towards design, her online habits …
Opinion
The Creator's Project blog is looking at the ways people are trying to sell GIFs and other net art online.
News
It's incredible to think that back in 1973 performance artist Chris Burden used a recorded video excerpt of his performance that same year, "Through the Night Softly," to create a 10-second black-and-white spot that was broadcast five times a week for four weeks on KHS-Channel 9 in LA.