Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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
Opinion
A major electronic media copyright issue. Agence France-Presse is arguing that "Twitter’s terms of service allow third parties broad re-use rights to their content, and thus the photographer’s selection of this mode of digital distribution gave AFP a broad license to redistribute the photographer’s
News
RT @markmackinnon [http://twitter.com/markmackinnon]: Dissident artist @aiww [http://twitter.com/aiww], freed from own house arrest, argues with police outside Wu Yuren trial http://twitpic.com/37i26l [http://twitpic.com/37i26l]less than a minute ago [http://twitter.com/#!/AWWNeverSorry/status/47110
Art
Man Barlett’s “Kin” is located in the main gallery of #TheSocialGraph exhibition at Outpost. It is one half of his work, “Kith and Kin” (2010), which was specially created for the exhibition.
Interview
Last Saturday, #TheSocialGraph was honored to host the first-ever retrospective of Loren Munk’s popular online video channel, the James Kalm Report. Started as a conceptual performance of sorts, Munk and his alterego, James Kalm, have over the course of four and a half years garnered a cult followin
Interview
This is the second in a series of interviews with artists, writers, and personalities involved with #TheSocialGraph, which opens today (November 12, 6-9p). For more information, visit hyperalleric.com/thesocialgraph [http://hyperalleric.com/thesocialgraph]. Jennifer Dalton stepped right into the hea
Opinion
When Christie’s recently became a sponsor of Hyperallergic, I knew little if anything about Robert Shapazian, whose important contemporary art collection [http://www.christies.com/features/2010-october-the-collection-of-robert-shapazian-1021-1.aspx] was advertised on this site and sold this week. Th
Opinion
Sometimes I wish a 1000 words could kill a picture. #criticism — William (@Powhida) November 10, 2010 I guess the old adage is wrong, how about 10,000? Art would be so much more fun if words had this kind of power.