News
Is Ai Weiwei Back on Twitter?
Seems so … just started about 45 minutes ago. First Google Plus [http://hyperallergic.com/30531/ai-weiwei-google-plus/] and now this … hmmmm
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Some Artistic Perspective on the Debt Ceiling Stupidity
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
MoMA's Paola Antonelli Imagines the Future of Objects
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
Pixel Pushers Rejoice, There's a New GIFt Mart in Town!
The Creator's Project blog is looking at the ways people are trying to sell GIFs and other net art online.
News
An Artist's 1973 TV Commercial
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.
News
NEW Bi-monthly Visual Arts Guide Set to Hit New Orleans
Fans of visual art in the Crescent City should rejoice that there's a new guide in town that will make things a little easier. Multi-disciplinary designer Erik Kiesewetter joined forces with three others to create a free printed bi-monthly gallery guide listing for the visual arts in New Orleans tha
News
50 People Get Naked for Art on Wall Street, 3 Get Arrested
Wall Street is a bizarre place. Major investment banks, hedge funds and other members of the world's financial elite tank the world's economy and practically no one gets arrested. Fifty participants in a performance art project by Zefrey Throwell, Ocularpation: Wall Street, get naked and three are a
Opinion
Breaking: Julian Schnabel's Abode Fading from "Pompeii Red" to "Venetian Pink"
We haven't been covering the humble home of artist Julian Schnabel, known as Palazzo Chupi, like others [http://ny.curbed.com/tags/palazzo-chupi] have but that's not to say we haven't been gawking at a distance trying to figure out WTF why the hell he made it.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week's Required Reading explores the restoration of earthquake-damaged Haitian murals, an archeological mystery in West Asia, the 18th C toilette tradition, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on pandrogeny, connecting the dots on Mona Lisa, the Banksy app, the year's worst first sentences, cool iPhone ca
Opinion
MoMA Yings & Crystal Bridges Yangs
Are American art institutions engaged in a Manichean battle between exclusivity and access? Will this be settled with a mud wrestling match between Crystal Bridges benefactor Alice Walton and MoMA director Glenn Lowry? Please, oh please, say it will be.
Opinion
Architecture Drama on 53rd Street
Will Jean Nouvel's MoMA tower get built? The initially 1,250 foot project has already had its crown knocked off and it is now slated to be 1,050 feet high but no word yet about the final design, according to the New York Observer this week …
Art
POWHIDA Is a VIP Douchebag
The point of last night's Marlborough Gallery show, POWHIDA, is probably that there are too many douchebags in the world, especially the art world. The character named Powhida, entered a Chelsea street-level Chelsea gallery and acted the part of a blue-chip contemporary artist.