Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Being part of the art world means that many of our jokes fall flat or are incomprehensible to outsiders. That's alright, this poster of traditional Western art history makes the art geeks among us chuckle, while it might just help the uninitiated get up to speed.
Opinion
The war of words between two major New York art critics escalated yesterday when Saltz used his very public Facebook wall to shoot back at Yau for the Brooklyn Rail art editor's accusation of Saltz being a Koons apologist.
Opinion
You may think that you know every meaning of the word reactor, but think again. We're adding a new definition to the dictionary …
Art
In the newly released edition of the Brooklyn Rail, editor John Yau takes on New York Magazine's art critic Jerry Saltz and his characterization of America as “big, bright, shiny, colorful, crowd-pleasing, heat-seeking, impeccably produced, polished, popular, expensive, and extroverted”
Art
While we live our artistic lives in the West in relative calm, if sometimes obscurity and poverty, artists in China face some very serious dangers from an autocratic government that only allows art to flower when it fits its political agenda. So when artists in China create a flash mob to protest th
News
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News
... Florida's Dail Museum needs money to complete its new building ... a woman fell into a Rose Period Picasso last Friday at the Met and ignited some of the funniest blog comments I've ever read on a New York Times blog (don't worry, both the woman & the Picasso will be fine) ... Toronto's Art Gall
Art
It's obvious that Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown don't like to sit around waiting for things to happen, which may explain why they have become cornerstones in Bushwick, Brooklyn's art scene. Andrew is the driving force behind Norte Maar, an apartment cultural space on Wyckoff Avenue that has played
Interview
A year ago, Julia Kaganskiy (aka @juliaxgulia) quietly began the Arts, Culture and Technology group in New York on Meetup.com. It was a simple idea: link up geeks with a love of culture. It may sound obvious in the art capital of the world but Julia was the first person to think it up and follow thr
Interview
Today, I was browsing Facebook and I discovered a post by Joy Garnett, who was offering one of her paintings to the first collector to pledge $10,000 to a fund for Haiti. She's an artist known for painting images of disasters and I wanted to talk to her about her latest bout of altruism.
Art
Performance artist Man Bartlett is tired, has blood shot eyes and he's doing something very American, shopping. His mission is to spend 24 hours in Union Square's Best Buy megastore without buying anything. His biggest obstacles are sleep, security and the urge to buy shit. Will he make it?
Interview
She's one of New York's old skool art critics and has penned books on everyone from David Smith to Edward Gorey. An authority on 20th C. modernism, Karen Wilkin agreed to talk to Hyperallergic about her experience as a longtime observer of the art world and in the process she spoke about an art worl