Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films shoots down MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch's decision to whitewash the Blu mural without consulting the community … This.Is.A.Must.Read. …
Interview
During last month's #TheSocialGraph exhibition, Hill dressed as a panda and lived in a crate in the gallery. He named the character, "Punch Me Panda." For a penny you could either punch him in the gallery or invite him to your home in Brooklyn via tweet (@natexhill). He also roamed the streets tryin
News
Another New York museum has removed its photography ban in galleries. This time the Museum of Arts and Design (aka MAD) is the latest institutions to join the ranks of MoMA and other major art institutions that welcome photography in their galleries, though some restrictions may apply to specific wo
Interview
The radical performance art collective, Voina, has been challenging the Russian authorities for years but on November 15 two of their artists, co-founder Oleg Vortonikov and Leonid Nikolayev, were arrested for a performance this past summer that involved the overturning of a cop car as part of an an
Art
Skye Parrott's "Greyhound, NYC" (2010) is one of 25 images in the First Love, Last Rites show at Capricious Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The show "documents" 18 months of her life that represent a void filled by a relationship with a boy and drugs, both of which eventually ended.
News
BushwickBK's Stephen Truax, who also contributes to this blogazine, reports on Luhring Augustine's new Bushwick space [http://bushwickbk.com/2010/12/20/chelsea-gallery-buys-into-bushwick/]: > "The new building is primarily going to be our storage facility, but we hope > to have at least a quarter o
Art
Today, approximately 400-500 protesters gathered on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum to take part in a rally demanding that the Smithsonian return the censored video by artist David Wojnarowicz, "A Fire In My Belly," to the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American
Art
For more information about today's protest visit here [http://hyperallergic.com/14883/fire-in-my-belly-protest-this-sunday-at-met-museum/] and here [http://artpositive.org/].
Opinion
This video was produced for MoMA's ninth installment of the Performance Exhibition Series [http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1124], which features Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, more commonly referred to as Allora & Calzadilla, and the staging of their haunting performance "S
News
A protest is slated to take place on Sun Dec 19 at 1pm EST at New York's Metropolitan Museum. We have links to a handy flyer and a protest action kit!
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News
Some answers are finally surfacing after a week of the LA MOCA controversy. Recently an email between the censored street artist Blu and renowned graffiti photographer Henry Chalfant has been posted online. Blu has confirmed to me via email that the text is real, and Chalfant has said he will provid
News
Al-Jazeera reports [http://english.aljazeera.net/photo_galleries/middleeast/2010113011444886787.html] that the once vibrant center of Jewish life in Beirut, Lebanon, and the city's largest and oldest surving synagogue, Magen Abraham is being restored by private donations, including from local Muslim