Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
In Brief
Perhaps it's a sign that paper money has entered its late rococo period as the revolution of digital currency makes bills feel as arcane as fax machines, but there's been a recent burst of creativity as designers and artists are tackling banknotes as a medium.
Opinion
This week, considering Hiroshima 70 years later, museums as publishers, the myth of a Brooklyn exodus, Ferguson's radical knitters, popular vape flavors, and more.
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News
Yesterday the Gulf Labor Coalition, which is an official participant of the central exhibition of the 2015 Venice Biennale, and the G.U.L.F. (Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction) group staged a variety of protest actions at the international exhibition.
Opinion
This week, 35 women tell their Bill Cosby stories, reflecting on memory in the internet age, how are performance artists paid, white privilege in Baltimore's music scene, and more.
Opinion
This week, commercializing museums, map of literary road trips, designing masculinity, McDonald's in Alaska, new Tokyo Olympic logo, John Waters says don't smoke, and more.
Art
This week, Puerto Rican self-determination, Chris Burden, and artist's resale rights are on our mind, but so are the poetics of politics, the ruins of Philip Johnson, and much, much more.
Opinion
This week, Eid cards, a mysterious "Chicken Church," Cosby and Smithsonian, the best Dutch galleries in the US, an architect talks about the perfect sandcastle, and more.
Art
This week, strategize about gentrification, probe the lives of famous artists, reimagine Charlie Chaplin in Greenwich Village, discuss the benefits of failure, and more in a very sunny and hot NYC.
Opinion
This week, the myths of an affordable LA, a church made of trees, gay lit, US sanctions and Iranian artists, decolonizing African art, and more.
Art
Artist Khaled Jarrar is no stranger to controversy.
Opinion
This week, history of barbecue, Damien Hirst's mid-life crisis, conceptual poetry's bigotry, the ISIS dildo flag, a crow rides a bald eagle, the first 3D-printed office, and more.
Art
Do you love Canada? Prove it by taking our special Canada Day art quiz.