Opinion
Required Reading
This week, learning from Skymall's surrealism, Berlin's memorials, Orientalism in Montreal, BIG in DC, Renzo Piano in Paris, Japanese memes mocking ISIS, the influence of Joseph Beuys on Abramović, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Rethinking What an Art Book Fair Can Be
LOS ANGELES — There are few events in the art world that allow the "little guys" to shine the way Printed Matter's art book fairs do, and last night's opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen Contemporary in LA's Japantown was a perfect example.
Guide
Your Concise Guide to the 2015 LA Art Book Fair
Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair opens on Thursday, January 29, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.
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ArtRx NYC
Snowmageddon never arrived in NYC — what a slacker storm — so you're probably a little let down and trying to figure out what to do to fend off cabin fever.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, artists and drones, archiving the web, Russian art manifestos, the lies of American Sniper, modern life, and more.
Opinion
Artists Confront the Uncomfortable Legacy of Lenin
This week, two men made headlines when they doused the tomb of the Soviet Union's first leader Vladimir Lenin with holy water while reportedly shouting "Rise up and leave!"
Opinion
Liveblogging 'The Artist as Debtor' Conference
We're at Cooper Union today to liveblog the 'The Artist as Debtor: A Conference about the Work of Artists in the Age of Speculative Capitalism' event.
Art
Accounting for Artists' Debt
On Friday, January 23, some of the most progressive thinkers on the topic of the financial realities facing artists will be convening in the Great Hall of Manhattan's Cooper Union university to explore a topic largely ignored in the art world, the artist as debtor.
Opinion
The #MuseumSelfie Scourge Is Upon Us
What have we done to deserve this? Today is a day that will forever be remembered as a plague on our social media feeds, a moment that ruptured our visual culture with a barrage of grainy images of people the world over visiting museums.
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ArtRx NYC
It's the middle of January and you're definitely not going to enough art stuff, so we have your guide to fill the void.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, tax breaks for billionaire art collectors, architecture of art fairs, assholes who think they're geniuses, the problem with #AllLivesMatter, a slave who freed herself, literary California, and more.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This is the week to explore France at the Morgan Library, party at MoMA's PopRally, visit the Lenin Museum in Midtown, or learn to dumpster dive in Queens.