Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
This week, Hans Haacke is back on the scene and better than ever, we're leading a discussion about alternative economies in the art world, there's an artistic excavation in Queens, talk of riot, conspiracy, or rebellion in Brooklyn, and much more.
Opinion
This week, an alternative history of US art, making bad reviews disappear, the art of sushi, LA and sci-fi, Picasso and the camera, and more.
Art
Earlier this month, the Brooklyn Museum opened Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond, a survey exhibition featuring 35 Brooklyn-based artists. In order to build upon the show's themes, Hyperallergic has partnered with the borough's foremost museum to organize three of our signat
Art
Everyone is getting into the Critical Halloween mood with Storefront for Art and Architecture, while artists have the option to dispose of their artworks at MoMA PS1. And there's one really big performance mashup scheduled at the Brooklyn Museum this Saturday.
Opinion
This week, Picasso Museum problems, Sweden's font, content moderators, Frank Gehry's f-you, John Constable reconsidered, the endangered bookshops of New York, and more.
Art
This week, a forgotten graffiti documentary, Bushwick bursting with international art, classic zombies, restoring color to ancient sculptures, and more.
In Brief
Last night, a graffiti writer identified by the New York Times as Christopher Johnson, 33, of Manhattan, vandalized a fourth floor wall of the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art.
Opinion
This week, an art project asks people to give away their data for a cookie, the first web brower turns 20, a child befriends Siri, slowing down in museums, the smell of old books, tea propaganda, and more.
Opinion
After a rough start for Paul McCarthy's 80-foot tall "Tree," that included a few punches and name-calling by people unhappy with the artist's provocation, the inflatable green sculpture has been, well, unplugged.
Art
In 1945, Andre Breton traveled to the Haitian capital of Port au Prince to deliver a lecture on “Surrealism and Haiti."
Opinion
American artist Paul McCarthy has erected his latest Christmas-themed work, “Tree,” and it has plugged up Paris’s Place Vendome for the FIAC Contemporary Art Fair.
Art
"Is it about, that the guards matter? Or is it about the matter of the guards … And we thought it's basically about both those things."