Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the super-rich ruining museums, how an essay saved a Renaissance masterpiece, writing as commodity, stealing from Jasper Johns, social media as self-expression, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Opinion
Darkskinned or Lightskinned? Crowdsourcing Blackness
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
ArtRx NYC
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
Required Reading
This week, net neutrality, photographic muzak, naïve techno-utopianism, Frank Lloyd Wright's photographer, professional video game player superstars, crappy design, and more.
Art
50 Shades of Art Whoredom
To call Ryder Ripps's "ARTWHORE" project provocative is an understatement.
Opinion
Metropolitan Museum Butt-Checks Kim Kardashian
The Metropolitan Museum has officially won the internet today.
Interview
The Downside of Art Going Viral
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
ArtRx NYC
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
Shattered "Adam" Is Born Anew at the Metropolitan Museum
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
Required Reading
This week, the case against repatriating cultural artifacts, British surrealists against fascism, Ai Weiwei on the internet, Isamu Noguchi's playground, and more.
Art
Get Your Fix of a Sinister Post-Human Future
Artist Saya Woolfalk has created a little utopian hive of serenity in the large front gallery of the Smack Mellon in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
Art
In Jerusalem's Old City, a Different Kind of Cubism
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.