Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Where to begin with such a passage? Do we criticize the comparison of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia with dinosaurs? The callous description of a community that doesn't fit the "Western" beauty aesthetic?
Opinion
This week, why we need art, art students today, office design in Tokyo, meth in North Korea, a 17th-century Turkish travel writer, writing the other, and more.
Opinion
We received the following statement from the Art Not Oil coalition regarding the new BP sponsorships of major cultural institutions in the UK.
Opinion
This week, minimalism and class pollitics, art and drugs, hackers extort web users, Zumthor redesign for LACMA revealed, and more.
Opinion
This week, art in shadow banking, the impact of focal length, oppressive minimalism, slave labor at the White House, Werner Herzog on Pokémon Go, and more.
Podcast
In the fourth episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast we focus on the Women of Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the Denver Art Museum.
Opinion
This week, digitizing the Library of Congress, conceptual art in Britain, the context for Hellenistic art, the five genders of Native American cultures, pomo ethics, and more.
Opinion
This week, Cleveland artists and the RNC, Nicole Eisenman's genius, the Baton Rouge protest image in context, blackness and contemporary art, and more.
Opinion
This week, Jeff Wall's insecurity, Deborah Kass says "vote Hillary," hostile architecture, Star Wars and the fantasy of US violence, and more.
Opinion
This week, we've witnessed another onslaught of senseless killings of Black people by police in the United States.
In Brief
It appears this week's summer heat in New York has impacted the art world, as the Brooklyn Museum just announced it will be closed this weekend because of an "air-conditioning outage."
Opinion
This week, the lie in Gay Talese's new book, Jupiter's northern lights, socially engaged art in Tunisia, Angels in America as great art, and more.