Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
SCOPE is the art fair that many people like to disparage but this year's installment was quite good and worth a trip. Housed in a large tent near the Art Miami and Red Dot art fairs and, as always, attached to Art Asia, the greater prominence ensured more foot traffic than last year (two gallerists
Art
Tired of all the chatter [http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/bathrobe-brigade-its-art-basel-vs-cool-kids-nada-grows] about Nada being the next big thing, I decided to see if this year's display would be everything the PR and press promised it would be. Honestly, it was. Even if the solo artist boo
Opinion
Last night's party at the Fountain art fair [http://www.fountainexhibit.com/calendar.html] started off great with a rum bar and tacos that you could garnish which freshly picked mint and cilantro, but soon before midnight it devolved into an art auction where descending bids allowed the buyer — and
News
Lindsay Pollock has a report [http://lindsaypollock.com/news/bloomberg-picassos-rothkos-signal-return-of-top-sellers-as-vips-cruise-miami-basel/] from this year's Art Basel Miami Beach that gives us some insight into the state of the art market: > Sales echoed what the recent New York auctions had
News
If Seven art fair has been getting some buzz because of their "original" approach to bypassing the art fair system and creating their own art fair of sorts, then you should know that Fountain Art Fair was the originator of the out-of-the-box approach to the art fair. Begun by three galleries, McCaig
News
About 150 protesters assembled at in the brisk cold outside Transformer's gallery space before marching to the National Portrait Gallery in Chinatown. That's not a small number: More than 100 people standing up for the memory of David Wojnarowicz and the sanctity of the museum as a space free from p
Opinion
On a recent RT America segment [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io4ydriHDUU], a Catholic League spokesperson is calling David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly" video anti-Christian and compares ants on Jesus to "putting a swastika on a synagogue." The video was part of the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek ex
Art
I really don't know what happened to Wynwood Walls, but this year's event was a major let down after last year's fun-filled festivities [http://hyperallergic.com/1353/fairey-los-gemeos-sissy-bounce/]. If last year's evening bash was an unexpected mix of murals, Sissy Bounce, and bold-faced art names
Art
After a stint in what felt like rather cramped quarters in Wynwood last year [http://hyperallergic.com/1421/miami-art-fair-photos/], the Aqua art fair returned to Miami Beach in a more relaxed setting — that even had a water feature — but the whole affair did feel a little underwhelming. I'm not a b
Opinion
In light of the recent censorship removal of an ant-covered Jesus video [http://hyperallergic.com/13726/smithsonian-dangerous-precedent/] by the Smithsonian Museum, we wanted to make one thing clear and we couldn't think of a better way to do it then with Johnny Phoenix's "A Note to All the Indigeno
Interview
On November 11, a small gallery opened its doors on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg and caused a ripple of excitement in local art circles. Not only was this one of the first galleries to open on Bedford for ages but many people are taking it as hopeful sign that some energy was returning to a neighb
Art
There's no point in giving you a "review" of the mothership of art fairs in Miami, Art Basel Miami Beach, so I thought a photo essay with some observations were more appropriate. I admit that I got a little bored after three hours of wandering around. I found myself seeing the same thing and getting