Podcast
What the Hell Are McMansions and Why Do They Exist?
McMansions are the houses many of us love to hate, and we invited Kate Wagner, aka McMansion Hell, to talk oversized buildings of wealth and status and what they all mean.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Required Reading
This week, an apartment block with movable walls, the magazine industry’s identity crisis, role of memory and monuments in Yerevan, Google's drive to kill the URL, the London banker who broke the world, and more.
Podcast
The Rebel Women of 19th-Century New York
A new exhibition explores the “Rebel Women” of 19th-century New York, and we talk to curator Marcela Micucci to discover the stories of these largely forgotten figures.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Okwui Enwezor on leaving Germany, #MeToo in museums, the aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois, British mosques, criticizing Avital Ronell, and more.
Podcast
Is the Art World Ready for the Sanctuary Movement?
As New York cultural leaders listen to the concerns of immigrant communities, we talk about the challenges of immigrant advocacy in the art world, and then Zachary Small interviews Emma Sulkowicz about the #MeToo movement.
Art
Required Reading
This week, democratizing portraiture, Chinese art heists, Burning Man, Silent Sam, hoarding, and more.
Podcast
Who Was Artist David Wojnarowicz? We Find Out
After two actions led by ACT UP activists encouraged the Whitney Museum to change a wall label, we went looking for people who could tell us who Wojnarowicz was and help us decipher his complex life and art.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the world's most beautiful libraries, what art can do that journalism can't, the future of surveillance, leaving Instagram, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, John Lurie isn't happy, galleries are leaving LA's Boyle Heights, threats to PoMo architecture, the corpse flower that doesn't want to open, cute brutalism, and more.
Podcast
The State of the Union at the Museum of Modern Art
Members of MoMA's biggest union have been working over 80 days without a contract, and we ask them to explain what's going on.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a couple's de Kooning secret, Milton Glaser brands Trump's "Space Force," A. K. Burns' first public sculpture, art in a state of emergency, African contemporary art since 1992, and more.
Community
A View from the Easel
This week, artist studios in Louisiana, Nevada, New York, and North Carolina.