Art
Required Reading
This week, Louvre's Nazi loot, gender imbalance in the art world, Linda Nochlin and the female gaze, Amazon's welfare scam, the future of Canadian art catalogues, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the feud between Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, Hank Willis Thomas's Guernica, what Google did with your selfie, fake social media followers, Arthur Miller's defense of the NEA, and more.
Art
Signs of Creative Resistance at the 2018 Women’s March
Over a million people around the world protested the one-year anniversary of the Trump administration, and many showed up with great signs, the greatest in fact, these are definitely some very very great signs.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a gigantic Katharina Grosse in Sydney, Anuradha Vikram on radical of women, Trevor Paglen on the changing nature of contemporary images, talking to Haitian art collective Ti Moun Rezistans, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the Disneyland of Detroit, the Dubai Frame opens, Sinclair Media's Trump connection, funerary photos and the politics of social media, and more.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: NYPD's Special Victims Squad is investigating photographer Terry Richardson, Charles Dutoit was ousted as the conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Morgan Library & Museum received a $5 million grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, and more.
Art
Do the Met Museum's Admission Numbers Add Up?
The bigger question regarding the Metropolitan Museum's new admission policy is who should pay? Donors? The public?
Interview
Met Museum President Daniel Weiss Answers Questions About the New Admissions Policy
The President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum spoke to Hyperallergic about the new admissions policy and what it means for visitors.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Shigeru Ban's Mt. Fuji Center, Basquiat in London, the Met's new admission policy, reviewing Trump's border wall prototypes, the Library of Congress's Twitter archive, and more.
Art
Picturing Ai Weiwei in Istanbul
Working in porcelain, Ai Weiwei On Porcelain can feel like a retrospective of his greatest hits done in a material that has been prized for centuries.
Art
Required Reading
This week, New Andean Architecture, decoding an Inca communication system, women at the Uffizi, "queer" as refusal, some 'best of' lists, and more.
Interview
Want a Smart Home Assistant? Invite This Artist to Watch You for Three Days Instead
Artist Lauren McCarthy wants to become your personal virtual assistant, but you have to invite her in.