Opinion
Required Reading
This week, magazine covers and Old Masters, arts funders, perfect writers, economics of art books, the case against Houston art fairs, why books are banned, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Four Questions About Contemporary Arab Art
I admit to feeling crippled by the New Museum's Here and Elsewhere show. As the first major show of art from the "Arab world" in a New York museum, it stirs a huge well of emotions and frustrations about a topic that needs volumes to unpack.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, don't forget about Queens, discuss the intersection of art and science, LMCC open studios sound great, site-specific performance at the Socrates Sculpture Park, a discussion about Brutalism in Williamsburg, and, most importantly, the New York Art Book Fair opens!
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, American adulthood, women in comics, dealer/collector mistrust, artists expecting more from dealers, NYC etiquette, Fatih Akin's new genocide film, bad ledes, distorting the Renaissance, and more.
Art
Seeing New York for the First Time
Photographer Nana Kofi Acquah hails from Ghana and arrived in New York this week to participate in Instagram's first-ever exhibition at Photoville.
In Brief
This Richard Prince–Inspired T-Shirt Hates Copyright
Nothing quite says "fuck you" to copyright like a Mickey Mouse–meets–Richard Prince T-shirt.
Art
Gallery Hosts Miniature Gravity Car Race Featuring 100s of Artist-Designed Chariots
Pierogi is a Williamsburg, Brooklyn art gallery, and one of its longest-running traditions turns 20 this week: Brooklyn Gravity Racers.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, New York continues to celebrate the fall season, and nothing is slowing down.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Scotland's Old Masters crisis, Anselm Kiefer's 200-acre studio, Virginia Woolf and portraiture, Apple Watch buzz, ISIS think pieces, 10 important books in people's lives, and more.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, new shows by Morris Louis, Saul Steinberg, and R. Luke DuBois, a feminist manifesto, Greenpoint Gallery Night, and much more.
Opinion
Advice from Jenny Holzer for the NFL and Ray Rice
What happens when you combine Ray Rice, football, a meme, and Jenny Holzer?
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a Rothko sells for ~$150 million, NASA's moon photos, identity of Jack the Ripper uncovered, violence of architecture, art institutions and imperialism, screenshots as POV, and more.