Opinion
Required Reading
This week, erasing women from Impressionism, Miss Piggy as feminist, gentrification of the self, Louis Armstrong talks pot, inside the ka'ba, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
A Silver Room at Bushwick Open Studios
Inside Jihyun Hong's compact studio, the artist has sheathed a whole room in metallic silver.
News
Painting Stolen from Bushwick Gallery Turns Up on Roosevelt Island
Sometime this morning, a painting went missing from English Kills Art Gallery.
Opinion
The Unbearable Lightness of Beardos
The master of the cat meme, Scott Chasse has a knack for paring down his imagery into their bare bones, so much so that they transform into glyphs or signs that are both familiar and alien in their message.
Opinion
The Anxiety of Fitting In as an Artist
In Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence (1973), the writer discusses the historical pull of precedents for poets and other artists.
Opinion
Welcome to Videodrome
Periodically Hyperallergic delves into the video archives of the internet to present a daylong series we've named after the 1983 classic Canadian sci-fi film by David Cronenberg, Videodrome. Today, we do it again.
Art
29 Period and Historic Rooms at the Metropolitan Museum, Ranked
28. New York Dutch Room, Bethlehem, New York, 1751
News
60 Art World Luminaries Pressure UAE on "Chilling Precedent" Set by Recent Bans
The directors of some of the world's most important art institutions, including the Tate and MoMA, have written a letter to UAE-affiliated art organizations asserting that "artists and academics should be allowed free passage to conduct research and work that is done in a peaceful and productive man
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, what scared Hitchcock, the future of digital arts publishing, paying for digital art commissions, copying what ISIS destroyed, an oil spill in "Christina's World," and more.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, France's faux prehistoric cave, Palmyra's importance, does color exist, dangers of selfie sticks, and more.
Opinion
Why I Don't Buy the Premise of Christoph Büchel's Icelandic Mosque Pavilion
I've been hesitant to embrace Christoph Büchel's project for the Icelandic Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale from the beginning.
News
Members of the Illuminator Sue NYPD for False Arrest, First Amendment Retaliation
This week members of the Illuminator Art Collective filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York alleging false arrest and improper seizure of their property by the NYPD's Central Park Precinct.