Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
… And just in time for the Miami art fairs! You'll remember Peter Fuss as the Polish artist who posted a billboard of a dead Obama during the 2008 US Presidential campaign, well, now he's taking aim at someone with more art world cred … the king of global gallery domination, Larry Gagosian.
Interview
Los Angeles-based artist James Gilbert has been exploring the nature of privacy online with Tweeted, Googled and Inappropriately Touched. The cleverly named series incorporates smaller sub-projects, like "Privacy Is Dead Because We Said So, 2.0" (2010), which is included in #TheSocialGraph [http://h
Interview
Last Saturday's All City Block Party [http://rwkstreetspot.blogspot.com/2010/11/bushwick-block-party-this-saturday.html ] at Factory Fresh in Bushwick attracted street art fans and artists to cover the walls of the block-long Vandervoort Place with murals and art work by Brooklyn talents, including
Opinion
And art continues its march into mainstream pop culture … with the newly released/leaked (who can tell anymore) Kanye West track featuring Jay-Z, “That's My Bitch," which includes the following artful references to Basquiat, Picasso, Mona Lisa, and Larry Gagosian.
News
Photographer and art historian John D'Addario [jonnodotcom.tumblr.com] has been capturing images of the new Swoon pieces going up in the Crescent City. Judging by the designs she has big plans for the city, oh right, she's planning an art house [http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/11/street_arti
Interview
One of the figures behind Space Slave Trade, Seychelle Allah discusses his brand of afrofuturism that layers the visual culture around him into a world in which the aggregate plays an important role. Allah’s relationship with social media has been complex. Space Slave Trade, named after a friend's b
Art
I highly recommend you watch all four parts of this recent BBC documentary about Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, Ai Weiwei — Without Fear or Favor. It is fantastic and informative. Ai is one of the most important artists in the world today. If you don’t know who he is or
News
Yesterday, PBS talk show host, Charlie Rose, interviewed musician Jay-Z at the Brooklyn Museum. The hip hop star is promoting his new book, Decoded, which, in addition to telling his personal story and decoding his lyric, includes unconventional typography, line drawings, and photographs, which acco
News
It somehow seems fitting that the womanizing Prime Minister of Italy has suited an ancient Roman statue with a new penis: "Government officials confirmed today, however, that a valuable statue of the god Mars, on loan to the prime minister's office, had been fitted with an artificial penis … La Repu
News
MY BOGUS 'GRAFFITI' CASE, IN WHICH I WAS ARRESTED AND IMPRISONED FOR 23 HOURS FOR PAINTING ON MY OWN WATERCOLOR PAPER- WAS DISMISSED TODAY!!less than a minute ago [http://twitter.com/julieannetorres/statuses/5331755749867520] via web[http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1108990018/Whatever_small_norma
Opinion
Last year, when they announced this ridiculous thing called the Rob Pruitt Awards I thought it was a joke: the justification was that it was conceived as a performance-based art work. Come on, give me a break, we're not idiots. First off, an artist slapping his or her name on an award is just bizarr
Art
Starting today, artist Nate Hill will be performing his newest piece, “Punch Me Panda” (2010) at #TheSocialGraph. If you are in Brooklyn, you can text (347-742-2293) or tweet Hill (@natexhill) to come to your home, where you can punch him for one penny. This is the first-time the artist has performe