Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Interview
On Sunday, many New Yorkers were probably trying to figure out who whitewashed and pimped out some of the city's boring billboards. If you liked what you saw then let me introduce you to the man behind the renegade campaign, known as New York Street Advertising Takeover (NYSAT), his name is Jordan S
News
...Grand Rapids, Michigan, stunned by success of ArtPrize Festival...Mark Rothko's first solo show in Moscow to take place this spring...van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam launched "Vincent van Gogh: The Letters" website with complete images and text of all the artist's correspondence...Ukrainian art webs
Art
My husband was walking down Bedford Avenue on Wednesday, and he spotted someone pasting up posters on a wall which is almost always dominated by a giant Shepard Fairey poster, so frequently in fact that it might as well be his permanent ad space. It was lunchtime and no one stopped or cared. Knowing
News
The @Platea social media art collective is doing a cover of Vito Acconci's seminal "Following Piece" (1969), which was first initiated forty years ago this month. A study in the public spaces we occupy and assumptions around privacy, Acconci followed random people in Manhattan during the month and r
Books
It's an epidemic in street art publications, picture books with no little or no text and often no photo credits or explanatory text. The democratization of publishing, accompanied by the popularity of street art, has created a mass delusion that just because anyone could that everyone should publish
Art
Quirky, clever and crafty are words that immediately come to mind when describing the work of Andy Yoder. His brand of conceptual sculpture easily manipulates scale, surfaces and materials to create fetishistic objects that are familiar and alienating. In his latest solo show titled Man Cave at Wink
Art
New York-based art blogger James Wagner recently declared "New Museum Commits Suicide with Banality [http://jameswagner.com/2009/09/new_museum_commits_s.html]" after the institution on the Bowery announced that they will be exhibiting the collection of one of their mega-rich trustees, Dakis Joannou.
Art
In the International Center of Photography's (ICP) third global survey of photography and video, known as the Triennial, the focus is on fashion and "its relationship to art and other cultural and social phenomena." Titled "Dress Codes," the exhibition is an ambitious look at fashion, which is inter
Hyperallergic
How did this all happen? I'm not sure but in the last year or so I imagined starting a new online publication that brought together the best of the art blogosphere and art magazine culture to create...well, I'm not exactly sure what it'll create, but here it is...voilà! I've called in a few favors t