Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Guide
This is it. The city's biggest annual open studios event, Bushwick Open Studios (BOS), is set to happen this coming weekend, and it would be easy to get lost in the chaos of it all except we're here to help!
Opinion
This morning, the sad news of poet, writer, and scholar Maya Angelou's death has been circulating online.
Art
This week, we're gearing up for the 2014 Bushwick Open Studios, but there's also lots of other stuff you should know about, including a modern American lit exhibit at the Morgan, Pre-Raphaelite art of the Metropolitan Museum, and a special screening of Metropolis that includes live music.
Opinion
The Madison Avenue Gagosian shop has a sign encouraging you to "Shop Small." Um, what?
Opinion
This week, Glasgow's Macintosh building is mostly saved, a meditation on the essence of video games, background on the Joe Scanlan/Donelle Woolford project, the World Cup goes viral, the legacy of Anthony Caro, a giant golden calf piñata, and more.
News
Last night's protest action at New York's Guggenheim Museum by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) is the group's fourth intervention and the latest to raise awareness about the labor conditions on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates.
Opinion
There are days I when hate the internet, particularly when it recycles the same idea again and again and again as if it were original. The latest (and most egregious) culprit is Lauren Wade and her tired project that photoshops Old Masters until they resemble the proportions of contemporary fashion
News
If you needed another reason to wonder why Walmart might be one of the world's most evil companies, then the recent story pitting the retail giant against a family of photographers may fit the bill.
Interview
This week, Jersey City's Mana Contemporary made the surprise announcement that they will be creating a street art and graffiti museum in a 100,000-square-foot former ice factory near the Holland Tunnel entrance.
Art
This week, you can discover the family history of a Goya masterpiece at the Metropolitan Museum, listen to the creator of the House of Cards TV series talk about politics, or snag a wonderful work of art at WagMag's benefit. And remember that this week is your last chance to see the wonderful Maria
Art
KINDERHOOK, NY — If Jack Shainman wanted to make a splash in upstate New York with his new space The School, then he achieved that goal, as last Saturday's opening brought roughly 800 locals and art worlders together in a transformed schoolhouse in the town of 8,500.
Opinion
This week, damaged Rothko back on view at the Tate, Latin American art in US museums, documentary photographer and the anger of their subjects, Istanbul's disastrous new protest space, Hiroshi Sugimoto in Paris, stereotyping the "other" on book covers, and more.