Art
ArtRx LA
This week, we have a handy map for your LA art adventures, Orange County trots out the avant-garde, Made in LA is closing, ACME celebrates 20 years, Doug Aitken has a new show, and lots more.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, New York is back in swing and for the next few weeks you will be inundated with more art events than you can imagine.
Opinion
Life Imitating Art: Grant Wood's Ice Bucket Challenge
Not sure if this ever raised money for charity.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, war photography and pop culture, breaking up the major museums, Hello Kitty is not a cat, video game sexism, criminalizing science, and more.
Opinion
And this concludes … Videodrome
Thanks for watching our daylong stream of videos from across the internet.
Opinion
Irma Vep as a Space Between the Artist and Her Creation
Artist Michelle Handelman has taken the epic 7-hour film Les Vampires about a bizarre underground criminal gang and transformed into "Irma Vep, The Last Breath," a video project that is about "living in the shadows, criminal anxiety and the relationship between the artist and her creation, both fict
Opinion
The Love Songs of Saddam Hussein
Commissioned by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the songs in Adel Abidin's "Three Love Songs" (2010) are transformed into sinister pop music videos that use attractive blonde women as conduits for the fallen dictator's propaganda.
Opinion
William Wegman and Robert Breer's New Wave
In the 1980s, the dream of going pop — as in pop culture rather than Pop art — in the art wold was raging strong, and many people thought it practically imminent.
Opinion
Better Than Performance Art
On Wednesday, artist Jayson Musson tweeted "lol this performance art scene in She's All That is better than real performance art," and his 84 characters opened the flood gates of memory for me.
Opinion
Welcome to Videodrome
Every year, Hyperallergic pays tribute to David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983), the classic sci-fi thriller, with a 12-hour journey through videos we discover littering the internet.
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ArtRx LA
This week, there's never enough camp in LA, Morton Bartlett's bizarre dolls go on display, and it's your last chance to see shows at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) and Jack Rutberg Gallery (plus almost your last chance to see one at Christopher Grimes Gallery).
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, we wanted to remind you that there are a lot of exhibition you should catch before August comes to a close.