Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Today's addition exemplifies the free-for-all nature of mail art. Inside this cardboard box we discovered the work of artist Mira Gerard and her "Combined Media" class at East Tennessee State University. Needless to say, we couldn't wait to crack it open.
Opinion
Teri Tynes of the Walking Off the Big Apple blog went to the preview for Anthony Caro's mini-retrospective on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum. She has published a good set of photos and a post that reports on the artist and what he said during the press event.
News
Last friday, a federal judge denied a request to order Maine to return a mural to a state Labor Department office where it was removed last month. According to the ruling [http://ia600606.us.archive.org/30/items/gov.uscourts.med.40981/gov.uscourts.med.40981.24.0.pdf], the Maine governor's order to r
News
A vibrant Picasso painting, which has not been seen in public for six decades, was donated by an anonymous American under the condition that the University of Sydney sell the work to fund scientific research. [BBC]
Art
William Evertson created one of the most surprising packages we've received for the Mail Art Bulletin. His padded envelope covered with grids and stamps of all kinds, including one that read "Will Work for Food" and another of our Hyperallergic "H" logo, arrived bulging and begging us to open it.
News
As LA's MOCA tries to give graffiti and street art their moment in the Southern California sun, in New York LA II, aka Angel Ortiz, and in Los Angeles, Revok, aka Jason Williams, are in jail for doing the art they love.
Opinion
This week… Ai Weiwei Easter egg, Picasso & Marie-Thérèse, camera obscura, LACMA acquisitions, John Berger's new book, thoughts on criticism and Mummers in Newfoundland.
News
Saturday's HK March for #AiWeiwei [http://twitter.com/search?q=%23AiWeiwei] drew 1000+. Photos by @wenyunchao [http://twitter.com/wenyunchao] yfrog.com/h2b1htcqj yfrog.com/h49azqunj http://yfrog.com/hs9z9gdj [http://yfrog.com/hs9z9gdj]less than a minute ago [http://twitter.com/#!/aliklay/status/6191
Art
Samantha Beverly (aka @kalofos) has created the funniest example of mail art that has arrived at Hyperallergic HQ yet. In her contribution to the Mail Art Bulletin, Beverly has transformed the greatest piece of contemporary spam — the West African email scam — into a hand-drawn scroll complete with
Art
Artist John Fekner recently found this previously unpublished photograph of a subway billboard street art piece from 1983. This work transforms a Newsday newspaper poster in the Ely/23rd Street subway station in Long Island City, Queens, into a more ominous scene. Unlike street art interventions tod
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News
War photographers help us witness pain, discover injustice and make sense of abstractions that are fed to us by our governments and leaders. They are the front line of image creators and they capture frightening, incredible, tender and unthinkable pictures that shock and enlighten us. Their jobs are
Opinion
A month ago, artists Michelle Vaughan and John Powers made a bar bet — I'm guessing it was a drunken one — over one of Powers's bombastic claims. He made the sweeping statement that "movies are the art of our time." Not one to step away from a challenge, Vaughan disagreed. Eventually Vaughan, who is