Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
News
He told Congress, "The objective was to ensure that his portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon."
Art
This week, the first Metropolitan Museum, Frank Stella's lost Black painting, Eli Valley's amazing comics, “the most LA thing ever,” racist yearbooks, and more.
In Brief
For 18 years, three buckets of uranium ore sat in a museum storage area close to the galleries.
Art
This week, surrealist photography, the new anti-semitism, fighting the corporatization of Burning Man, the monotony of contemporary architecture, Lagos's art scene, and more.
Podcast
This week was a snowy one in Brooklyn, so Hyperallergic editors decided to gather and chat about some of the stories we've been reporting on.
Interview
The first full-length documentary on the Nobel Prize-winning author offers a rich take by one of the only people she trusts to take her photograph.
Art
This week, world's first poet, reviewing Antinous: Boy Made God, Queens modernism, Octavia E. Butler on Pasadena, mile-high architecture, and more.
Opinion
Do we really have to explain to the CEO of the Museum of the Bible that archaeologists didn’t find the rock that killed Goliath?
Art
This week, a mirrored house in the Swiss Alps, California’s obsession with health, the Trump wall’s debt to Minimalism, Berlin’s Arab intellectual community, rain drama in LA, and more.
Art
This week, a paradise of glass, Edward Burne-Jones, thinking critically about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ketchup caviar, and more.
Podcast
A new book of conversations between the noted artist and art historian captures a complex body of work that continues to challenge the conventions of sculpture.
Art
This week, a cartoonish Vegas wedding chapel, the ancient DNA trap, the first photo book, explaining “cultural mulatto,” and more.