Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
The recent case of the dictator Sultan of Brunei brother’s sex sculptures [http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-03/prince-jefri-of-bruneis-trial-features-nude-statues/full/] makes us wonder why the member of southeast Asia royalty didn’t just commission Jeff Koons, who knows a thin
News
A number of news sources are reporting that Chinese art great Ai Weiwei is under house arrest in his north Beijing home. “I am under house arrest,” Mr Ai told The Daily Telegraph by telephone. “They asked me not to go and to tell everyone the party was off, but I said I couldn’t do that and they’d h
Opinion
Underneath Las Vegas are 200 miles of flood tunnels that are also home to 1,000 people and an art gallery. According to the Daily Mail, “… the destitute and hopeless have constructed a community beneath the city and have even dedicated one section of tunnels to an art gallery filled with intricate g
Opinion
I came across this wonderful story in the Hackensack Chronicle and my heart melted. Art teachers are the heart and soul of the visual arts but they often don’t get the recognition they deserve. I was happy to hear that this small group of teachers in Hackensack was recognized by the Art Educators of
Opinion
Some things leave us speechless and this bite of Twitter wisdom is one of them. There are no words for this ridiculousness though it really does put things into perspective. For information on the history of US arts funding, visit a post [http://blog.art21.org/2009/07/08/arts-stimulus-funding-pt-1/]
News
In two weeks, #TheSocialGraph will open at Outpost in Bushwick, Brooklyn and we’re incredibly excited. What is #TheSocialGraph? It is an evolving exploration of the burgeoning field of social media art and the relation of contemporary art with this populist tool as a medium, facilitator, and subject
Opinion
The Washington Post, always the voice for the powerful, connected, and well-moneyed, has an article on the victims of art dealer Lawrence Salander. They've tracked down Earl Davis, the son of American modern master Stuart Davis, some psychiatrist whose father's collection was entrusted to the dealer
Art
Artists have been having informal apartment shows as long as anyone can remember but in the last few years there has been a growing trend in New York (particularly Brooklyn) of quirky apartment art exhibits that I hope continues to grow. Last night, I stopped by Julie Torres's apartment, you'll reme
Art
Obrist is strange. There, I said it. In an event that often felt like a coffee klatch at Obrist's house, the art world power broker known as Hans Ulrich Obrist — he’s #2 on Art Review’s Power 100 — had a book reading last Saturday at MoMA’s PS1 in Long Island City for his newest publication, Hans Ul
News
A little birdie told us at Hyperallergic HQ that Ugo Rondinone’s "Hell,Yes" (2001) will be removed from its perch on the facade of the New Museum. The same little birdie told us that it is slated to be replaced by Isa Genzken’s 30 foot (8 meter) tall "Rose" sculpture. What do we think of the newest
Art
Last night, Manhattan’s Guggenheim Museum was transformed into a futuristic new media award’s show venue as the finalists of the first Play: A Biennial of Creative Video biennial were announced to a crowd of Google, Intel, HP, Guggenheim employees (all sponsors of the event), artists, and new media
News
Reuters reports [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69H3NN20101018] that, "A new online database recording more than 20,000 works of art looted by the Nazis from Jews in France and Belgium during World War Two shows that at least half have yet to be returned to their original owners." To view the