Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Artist Nate Hill is always picking at cultural scabs. Whether it's drug addiction, violence, alienation, sexism, or race, he's poking his finger in wounds that solicit reactions by intentionally provoking his audience with deadpan directness.
Art
This week, feminism's impact on art, Cézanne at the Met, the personal experience of surveillance, John Baldessari's new show, a bridge's 50th birthday, and more.
Opinion
This week, net neutrality, photographic muzak, naïve techno-utopianism, Frank Lloyd Wright's photographer, professional video game player superstars, crappy design, and more.
Art
To call Ryder Ripps's "ARTWHORE" project provocative is an understatement.
Opinion
The Metropolitan Museum has officially won the internet today.
Interview
What happens when an artist places their work on mainstream media and feels overwhelmed by negative comments? Kristine Potter found out after Buzzfeed posted her photographs.
Art
This week, kinetic cinema, fuck paintings, drones, art inspired by Ebony and Jet, a queer birthday party, cemeteries in Kyrgyzstan, and more. In other words, just another week in NYC.
In Brief
One of the greatest Renaissance sculptures outside of Europe has been restored after a devastating fall in 2002 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Opinion
This week, the case against repatriating cultural artifacts, British surrealists against fascism, Ai Weiwei on the internet, Isamu Noguchi's playground, and more.
Art
Artist Saya Woolfalk has created a little utopian hive of serenity in the large front gallery of the Smack Mellon in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
Art
EAST JERUSALEM — Walking through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City it is hard not be to fascinated by the folk paintings appearing on the homes of pilgrims who returned from the Hajj in Mecca.
Art
This week, a classic film from the LA Rebellion is being screened, two LA artists talk Marsden Hartley, karaoke as art is in the spotlight, and more.