Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Tonight’s event “How to Survive the Art World Using the Art of Sorcery” is sold-out but that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to join in on the action. We’re livestreaming tonight’s event [http://hotpotato.com/events/william-powhidas-surviving-the-art-world-using-the-art-of-sorcery-3F4s6M] from our of
Interview
New York street artist Momo’s latest project took place in the unlikely town of Key West in the Florida Keys. The veteran street paster decided to work with locals on a one-to-one basis and create art works that would be integrated into their lives and bring what was normally a public piece of art i
Art
Lotus Johnson left this illuminating comment on Alison Young’s post “Art, Value & Banksy’s Rats in Melbourne,” which included an illustration of a stencil depicting a native Australian flower stabbing a Banksy signature animal, the rat. Turns out there’s more than meets the eye.
News
Yesterday, Barneys installed 20 Eames plywood chairs in one of their world famous Madison Avenue store windows, but what made this display at the department store different was the mashup of high modernist 20th C. design icon with the brash individual style of some of the New York’s most active stre
Interview
On Tuesday, Tyler Green announced that he was leaving his 8 1/2 year stint at ArtsJournal for the mainstream art media world of Louise Blouin Media’s ARTINFO and Modern Painters. The news came as a surprise to many who view Green’s online voice as a cornerstone of the indy art blogosphere. Yet the v
News
This morning, a pioneer of the indy art blogosphere Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes announced - with the help of artist William Powhida - that he will be joining Modern Painters as a columnist and Artinfo as a blogger. But it’s worth noting that this isn’t the only major news announced by Louise Blo
News
According to Brokelyn [http://www.brokelyn.com/brooklyn-artists-barter-for-your-next-physical-exam/], one North Brooklyn hospital at the corner of Flushing & Broadway, Woodhull Hospital, is offering artists a means to barter art for healthcare.
Art
Join us Friday, May 14 at 8pm for a special talk by Brooklyn artist William Powhida [http://williampowhida.blogspot.com] on “Surviving the Art World Using the Art of Sorcery.” Described as a “gadfly in the art establishment” by the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/arts/design/07powh
Opinion
This story keeps getting better and better … first, PS1 chief curator Klaus Biesenbach told David Byrne that Lady Gaga wasn’t an artist [http://hyperallergic.com/4960/david-byrne-klaus-biesenbach-lady-gaga/], then Byrne retracted the quote [http://hyperallergic.com/5151/biesenbach-gaga-is-an-artist/
Opinion
After our post about one image in Mauricio Cattelan’s W Magazine portfolio, which bares an uncanny resemblance to the work of artist Matthieu Lavancy, we discovered that that this may not be the first time the fashion magazine poached ideas from the art world. You be the judge.
News
First spotted by the Animal New York [http://animalnewyork.com/2010/05/is-shepard-faireys-legal-mural-illegal] blog, the New York Times [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/fairey-mural-gets-thumbs-down-from-buildings-department/] reported that Shepard Fairey’s May Day illegal mural on Hous
Opinion
Remember that insane story about the Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli handing out new lapel pins to staff with the state seal covered up with an armored breastplate? Arts writer Tyler Green dreams up a snarky scenario where the Virginia attorney general's disdain for female nudity reaches th