Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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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
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... 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
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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
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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... a new modern art museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, opens ... Arizona's defunct West Valley Art Museum needs a place to store its art ... British arts institutions are getting short changed by the 2012 Olympics ... Bank of America gives its customers free admission to LA museums ... Michael Ja
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Just in case you hadn't noticed, we're on vacation until Monday, January 4, 2010. While we're away we're making plans, dealing with programmers, and doing other things to make you all feel warm and fuzzy. In the meantime, we wish you all an amazing New Year's Eve and look forward to you joining us f
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... a profile of "power" curator Hans Ulrich Obrist ... the Art Gallery of Alberta signs a deal with the National Gallery of Canada ... the Clyfford Still Museum is being built ... Fresno, California, loses a museum ... a Victorian novelist's fancy toothpick fetches big bucks ... some notable picks
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Here is an extravaganza of slideshows from the big cross section of 7 art fairs and one private museum show I attended while in Miami and haven't written about yet. Enjoy the journey into the dark corners of the Miami fairs.