Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
![More Answers in MOCA Mural Censorship [UPDATE 4]](/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2010/12/deitchstreetart-home.jpg)
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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
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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
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Artist Blu has just blogged about his surprise that the word "censorship" is disappearing from the discussion of his whitewashed mural and being replaced by the word "curatorial choice." He also reveals why the mural isn't as finished as some of his other work …
![Artist Requests to Be Removed from Smithsonian's Hide/Seek [UPDATE 3]](/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2010/12/felix-home1.jpg)
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New York-based artist and artistic director of the Institute of Art, Religion and Social Justice AA Bronson has sent an email to the National Portrait Gallery requesting that his work "Felix, June 5, 1994" (1994/99) [pictured above] be removed from their Hide/Seek exhibition in light of the recent c
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There has been so much talk about Blu's commissioned mural but few people are talking about the work itself and what it could mean. As a critic who has been looking at a great deal of street art for years, I want to weigh in on the topic. Some art critics have been dismissive of the work and thought