This week, the cost of competing on RuPaul’s Drag Race, “The Scream” is in solidarity with Strike MoMA, a new biography of Edward Said, and more.
Author Archives: Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic. You can follow him at @hragv.
Posted inFilm
An Epic-Length Documentary Tackles Ernest Hemingway
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s latest PBS series does a good job of telling the writer’s life story, but doesn’t probe his thornier aspects.
Posted inNews
Leaked Email From MoMA Director to Staff Mischaracterizes Recent Protests
The recent email from Glenn Lowry suggests the museum director is attempting to control the narrative around Strike MoMA’s current protests.
Posted inIn Brief
Required Reading
This week, Mister Rogers’s cardigans, the myth of Noblesse Oblige, inequity at a LA museum, digital media’s issues, and more.
Posted inArt
Learn About Clichés-verre, an Obscure 19th-Century Image Reproduction Technique
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Eugène Delacroix, and others employed the technique to share works with close acquaintances.
Posted inArt
Required Reading
This week, the first-ever NFT and lost promise, a Cree-based programming language, a 16-year-old architecture critic, Queen Victoria’s drug habits, and more.
Posted inArt
The Simpsons Spoofs Metropolitan Museum as “Museum of Generational Wealth”
The latest episode of the Simpsons pokes fun at the parodical Museum of Generational Wealth.
Posted inSatire
MoMA Buys Amazon Rainforest to Offset Newly Donated NFT Collection
MoMA plans to organize trips to the Amazon starting in 2022 for trustees and other donors to showcase the institution’s innovative approach to collecting.
Posted inSatire
Millionaire Art Collectors Unionize, Protesting Their Billionaire Competition
Art-loving millionaires banded together to fight the growing monopoly of billionaires at art auctions, on museum boards, and at art fairs.
Posted inPodcast
After Decades of Selling New Media Art, Gallerist Steven Sacks Offers His Take on NFTs
Bitforms gallery has been on the cutting edge of digital art for decades, so what does its founder think about NFTs?
Posted inArt
Required Reading
Today, NFT legal issues, looking closely at Bosch, talking to Beeple, Ken Burns on documentaries, superhero pay, and more.
Posted inArt
Required Reading
This week, Hong Kong’s culture scene is facing major challenges, an NFT “house” sells big, Ishmael Reed on Alice Walker, Woody Allen’s manipulation, and more.