Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
News
The militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been destroying the artistic and religious heritage of Iraq and Syria as they continue to impose their fundamentalist Sunni doctrine on the lands they've occupied.
Art
This week, there's a lot of performance going on across New York, so we have prepared a shortlist of what is worth seeing. And may I suggest you check out the 10th Annual Hip-Hop Festival.
In Brief
Emoji translation is a fine art. The first masterpiece of the genre was undoubtedly Emoji Dick (aka Moby Dick in emoji) by Fred Benenson, but since then there have been varying degrees of success at translating the true essence of a text into a string of mostly adorable symbols.
Opinion
This week, letting art orgs die, Marina has a headache, criticism of Gehry's plans in Philly, LGBTQ issues at Manifesta 10, NYC's shadow transit system, copyrighting scents, and more.
Opinion
This week, Koons reviews, Facebook's emotional manipulation, artwashing, Native American map of North America, Prince's meme-inspired song, and more.
Art
If Armando Mariño's earlier art looked at the outside world with a critical postcolonial eye, his recent paintings probe visceral states of being tinted by melancholy and framed by a directness that feels intimate.
Opinion
This week, blurring lines between fine art and video games, Indonesian performance artist gets YouTube famous, abstraction's sameness problem, cartoonists and censors, smartcameras, Terry Richardson the predator, and more.
Opinion
The reaction to Ryan Wong's satirical take on Joe Scanlan's Donelle Woolford project have been intense. Let's take a look.
Art
This week is all about alternatives in New York. So if you can't make it to the feminist reading of the New York Times at the Brooklyn Museum, then try to make the discussion about internet comments at the Housing Works Bookstore in Nolita.
Opinion
It started on Instagram last Wednesday, when Ai Weiwei posted an image of a man holding his leg like a rifle with the words "京城反恐系列" (Beijing anti-terrorism series).
In Brief
The Unicode Consortium (which sounds like a comic book crime organization) has released approximately 250 emoji as part of Version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard, which includes 2,834 new characters.
Opinion
This week, art market boom thoughts, women ignoring men in art, press freedoms in the US, emotions of fonts, displacement as translation, reconstructing Le Corbusier's Maison Dom-Ino in Venice, and more.