Opinion
The Mediated Reality of Harun Farocki
Last month, German filmmaker and artist Harun Farocki died at the age of 70. Farocki made films that were unabashedly political yet remarkably reserved.
Jillian Steinhauer
Opinion
Baudelaire, Michael Jackson, and Modernism
One of my favorite pieces included in Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at the Studio Museum in Harlem earlier this year was Adam Pendleton's "Lorraine O'Grady: A Portrait" (2012).
Opinion
Saul Bass Gets to the Heart of Creativity
Why do we make art? Why does anyone create anything?
Opinion
Taylor Swift as Microcosm for the Art World
Do you ever feel like the art world is sort of like high school, or life at a small liberal arts college? Or maybe just a blowout party you're not actually sure you were invited to, but you decided to show up anyway?
News
Feminist Activists Bleed and Defecate on Islamic State Flag #NSFW
Egyptian feminist activist Aliaa Magda Elmahdy made a statement against the Islamic State (IS) this past weekend with the release of an explicit photograph on her Facebook page.
Art
Navigate an Art Gallery Like a Video Game
It's not every day that you get to climb all over classic works for art — unless you're an unsupervised child — but a new online gallery lets you jump on the Koons and the Warhol.
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News
Man Vandalizes Jeff Koons Retrospective [UPDATED]
A man briefly disrupted the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum this afternoon, splashing red paint against a wall and signing his name.
News
Brooklyn Gets a Neighborhood-Centric Biennial
Yesterday brought the news that Brooklyn is getting an art biennial.
Hyperallergic
Join Hyperallergic for Elastic City's Fall Walks Festival
Hyperallergic is proud to announce that we're the media partner for the 2014 Elastic City Walks Festival.
Books
A Comics Artist Tackles the White Cube
Making comics about the art world is an excellent idea. And so, the premise of Brecht Vandenbroucke's White Cube is full of promise.
Hyperallergic
Reflections on the Yams Collective ArtTalk
We asked attendees to send us responses to our ArtTalk with the Yams in whatever form they liked so we could compile them here, offering a taste of the event in the process.
News
Street Artists Sue Terry Gilliam for Copyright Infringement
Three street artists have filed a lawsuit against Terry Gilliam, alleging that the director "misappropriated" their copyrighted collaborative work in his upcoming film The Zero Theorem.