Opinion
What Is the Most Expensive City to Visit Museums?
According to Leah Sandals's charticle over at This Magazine, titled "Admission Impossible," the answer to that question may be Toronto. Gaze at her chart and be amazed.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week on Required Reading … William Powhida has devised a new power axis of art world affirmation … New York Observer explains the thing called the "professional collector" … at Idiom they ask an important question "Can an art experience be authentic even if the status of the work of art remains
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Flickr Images from Revolutionary Cairo
If Twitter has been dominating the discussion of social media and the current protests in Egypt, they aren't the only social network filling the intertubes with oodles of information created by everyday people, media professionals, and governmental forces. Sure the other social media channels have s
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Unverified Tweets: Egyptian Museum In the Middle of Turmoil [UPDATING…]
The information is coming fast and furious via regarding the Egyptian Museum and the attack of protesters by pro-government authorities in Tahrir Square. So we are compiling a list of tweets to keep you up-to-date on what's happening on the ground. Many of these tweets are from Tahrir Square, and ot
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Database Launches to Track Artifact Looting in Egypt
There have been many reports about damage to Egypt's art treasures, but reports are conflicting at best, which may be because the facts are being caught up in the spin of the Egyptian government's propaganda campaign to represent themselves as the group capable of maintaining the safety of the publi
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Pyramids of Giza Reportedly Damaged
Unreported Heritage News is quoting Dr. Gerry Scott, director of the American Research Center in Egypt, who provides an assessment of the damage sustained by a few major archeological sites in the protest-racked country. He says there is apparently damage at the Giza Pyramids and an attempt to loot
![Former Egyptian Museum Dir Says Looting Inside Job, Memphis Mus Looted [UPDATE 40] Damaged Mummy ID'd, Sinai Antiquities Robbed](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/01/memphis-looted-home.jpg)
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Former Egyptian Museum Dir Says Looting Inside Job, Memphis Mus Looted [UPDATE 40] Damaged Mummy ID'd, Sinai Antiquities Robbed
UPDATE 35: Sun Jan 30, 10:29am EST: … In a shocking development, the former director of the Egyptian Museum, Wafaa el-Saddik, in an interview published on German publication Zeit Online has said that the individuals responsible for the looting at the National Museum included the institution's own gu
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Breaking: Images of Egyptian Museum Damage [UPDATE 34] King Tut Objects Damaged?
CONTINUING COVERAGE … UPDATE 24: Sat. Jan 29 12:43pm EST: Al-Jazeera has broadcast video of the damage at the National Museum, aka Egyptian Museum. The strange thing about these images is that they demonstrate that the damage is certainly more than a few mummies, which is what Reuters reported that
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Is the Egyptian Museum Under Threat? [UPDATE 23] Looters Got Into Museum, Destroyed 2 Mummies
Al-Jazeera is reporting a troubling development at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The Qatar-based news network has been extensively covering the political protests that have engulfed Egypt, causing the country to cut off the internet to those within its borders. Al-Jazeera has been showing images of
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US Photogs Now Free to Photograph Public Space, Federal Buildings
After numerous nasty incidents post-9/11 when the US government's rush to take away rights caused countless problems for people taking photos in public, today we have good news for photographers, artists, tourists, and camera enthusiasts across America.
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Performance Art Through the Lens
MoMA photography curator Roxana Marcoci knows that we are experiencing a “renaissance of performance”. The show she has curated in collaboration with Eva Respini, Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960 [http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1100], will explore the role of the
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Damien Hirst Leading Spin Class at Davos
The personal foundation of Damien Hirst’s friend and hunting buddy, Victor Pinchuk, is inviting the Davos elite to produce a spin painting with the formaldehyde man himself using the artist's spin painting machines and, according to the Pinchuk Foundation press release, "specially delivered to Davos