Art
Dread Scott Enacts the Images of Oppression
The archway under the Manhattan Bridge was the site of artist Dread Scott's one-time-only performance "On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide."
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, solo shows by artists Robert Gober, Egon Schiele, and Gregory Sholette should be on your radar, while curator Michelle Grabner is doing a breakfast chat, the NY Public Library is hosting a talk on museum ethics, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark side is in the spotlight.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a new photo of Oscar Wilde, ancient art being used as a weapon in Syria, a meme hurts HK protesters, the importance of artists' queer identities, how Goya landed in Boston, San Fernando Valley art history, and more.
Guide
Your Concise Guide to the 2014 Greenpoint Open Studios
A whopping 265 artists are taking part in this weekend's Greenpoint Open Studios (GOS). Here's your concise guide to exploring one of the city's most enjoyable open studio events.
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The Frontier of the Art World
GALVESTON, Texas — The idea of a boomtown is part of the myth of the United States of America. Like dreamers huddled around storytellers in an ethereal oasis, Americans like tales of prosperity that lead to legends of streets paved with gold.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, 265 artists take part in Greenpoint Open Studios, there's an art world comedy being filmed in Williamsburg, Cy Twombly opens at the Morgan, Artists Space considers the intersection of art and books, and it's your last chance to see the Latin American art show at the Guggenheim. And, of co
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.
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.
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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.