Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Culture in the 21st century is a minefield of trigger warnings, a nebulous type of cautionary note that is deployed as a way to warn people about the content they're about to encounter.
Opinion
This week, USC's embattled dean speaks, famous artists review books, defending gallery assistants, and more.
Art
Today is a wonderful day for equality, as LGBTQ couples are now able to marry anywhere in the United States just like their heterosexual peers.
Opinion
This week, Malevich's "Black Square," paying comic artists, sexism in club culture, Egyptian photo archive goes Creative Commons, Irish slaves, encyclopedia of pasta, and more.
News
Activist art collective Liberate Tate completed a 25-hour unsanctioned performance inside Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall on Sunday, urging the institution to drop its sponsorship deal with BP, one of the world's largest oil companies.
Opinion
This week, whiteness of the avant-garde, history of ultramarine, Christo's new project in Italy, rise of the Yuccies, Jane Austen getting workshopped, and more.
Opinion
This week, erasing women from Impressionism, Miss Piggy as feminist, gentrification of the self, Louis Armstrong talks pot, inside the ka'ba, and more.
Art
Inside Jihyun Hong's compact studio, the artist has sheathed a whole room in metallic silver.
News
Sometime this morning, a painting went missing from English Kills Art Gallery.
Opinion
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
In Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence (1973), the writer discusses the historical pull of precedents for poets and other artists.
Opinion
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.