Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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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” after the institution on the Bowery announced that they will be exhibiting the collection of one of their mega-rich trustees, Dakis Joannou. To add insult to injury, the whole museum show will be curated by one
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
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