Art
Swoon's Underwater Fairy Tale
In one of the largest galleries at the Brooklyn museum, the artist Swoon has erected Submerged Motherlands, a colorful installation cloaked in the language of fairy tale and myth.
Hrag Vartanian
Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
News
LACMA Is the First Museum to Join Snapchat
Social media has become a staple of museum communications plans, so we weren't surprised to learn that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art became the first museum to join the Venice Beach–based social network last month.
Art
ArtRx LA
This week, Neckface hits LA, last chance to see Shannon Finley's multilayered abstractions, Byzantine chanting fills the Getty Villa, the first major show to explore the influence of African cultural astronomy opens, and more.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, you're invited to make a communal public artwork out of reusable materials, reflect on the strange fate of Evita's corpse, watch a cult film classic in a community garden, visit a police station turned street art gallery, and stop by Times Square to see a reenactment of a classic Alfred J
Art
Graffiti and Street Artists Take Over a Historic NYC Police Station
What do you get when you give over 65 street artists and graffiti writers free reign in a former police station? This.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, photography's truth, the media's numbness to torture, the clock of the Met Museum, mass art, a photo no one would publish, mistakes in Medieval English architecture, and more.
In Brief
Baroque Masterpiece by Guercino Stolen from Italian Church
This week, a large 17th-century Baroque painting by Italian artist Guercino went missing in the northern Italian city of Modena.
Art
ArtRx LA
This week, cat-related art is popping up downtown, there are a number of August gallery shows you shouldn't miss so we thought we would compile some of our favorites.
Opinion
Liberté, Égalité, and … Beyoncé
For the days when you don't feel a sense of brotherhood, there is Beyoncé.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, enjoy Batman in Bryant Park, experience Cuban culture in Queens, visit MoCADA for an exhibit on how black communities are affected by natural disasters, sign up for the new Greenpoint Open Studios, and it is your last chance to see shows by Hito Steyerl and another on Capitalist Realism b
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, museums of the mind, Google captured in photos, a leaked document by Manifesta 10 curator Kasper König, 30 years of cell phone design, Sonny Rollins spoof goes wrong, online curators, and more.
Art
Reading the Streets of Beirut
There are few places I love in this world as much as Beirut.