Opinion
Required Reading
This week, LA's new Edsel of architecture, a doghouse architect, time-slice photography, photoshopping the Broad, the connection between video games and literature, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Live from #ALLTHEINSTRUMENTS at the Hammer Museum, Day 1
LOS ANGELES — We're at the Hammer Museum in LA for the two-day performance concert, #AllInstrumentsAgree.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a white poet's yellowface, this Hirshhorn Museum's new director and new problems, Brazilian Pop art politics, the photographic politics of Instagram, 4,500 Man Ray artworks in Queens, and more.
Hyperallergic
2nd Ed. of 'Hyperallergic's Review of Art Books and Zines' Is Out!
Pick up the second edition of Hyperallergic's Review of Art Books and Zines as a PDF (2.6MB) or look for it at the main entrance way of MoMA PS1 during the NY Art Book Fair this weekend.
Interview
Turning Pixels into Print: An Interview About the Printed Web
Since 2013, Paul Soulellis’s Printed Web series has been gathering online material and publishing it on paper. Hyperallergic spoke to Soulellis about his desire to make pixels into something physical.
Hyperallergic
Pick Up Our Awesome Limited-Edition Zine at the NY Art Book Fair, "Asshole"
At the opening of Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair tonight, we're launching a zine to help you navigate the fair and its many treasures.
In Brief
Meta-Corporate Ad Torches Burning Man
David Foster Wallace was right, meta-television is the future, but a new meta-corporate ad by Quiznos may be one of the best examples of how corporations will serve up anti-corporate humor for the masses in an attempt to advance their own toasty agenda.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, did Duchamp appropriate a woman's artwork, Naomi Wolf compares Kathryn Bigelow to Leni Riefenstahl, how photojournalism is changing, Guerrilla Girls critical of Broad collection, and more.
Opinion
A Response to the Call to Boycott Israel
Last month, the following letter was sent to artist Mel Chin by New York–based curator Manon Slome.
News
Anish Kapoor's Versailles Sculpture Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Slurs
Anish Kapoor’s "Dirty Corner" (2011–15) sculpture in the gardens of Palace of Versailles has been vandalized again but this time with offensive words, including anti-Semitic slurs.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Wim Wenders and reactionary sentimentalism, the importance of Palmyra, when civilization started to discriminate against women, the power of images, African Americans and appropriation, and more.
Art
Why Don't More Americans Go to Museums?
In the past we may have turned to pollsters or psychics, while today we turn to Twitter to look at the hive mind and discover why.