News
The German government and the octogenarian who last fall was discovered to be hiding a trove of nearly 1,500 Nazi-era artworks have reached an agreement about the future of the collection.
Art
Who could forget Ai Weiwei's foray into music last spring? Now he's branching out creatively once more, this time with his first acting role.
News
The Ontario provincial government has begun cracking down on unpaid internships at magazines, shutting down programs at The Walrus, Toronto Life, Fashion Magazine, and Quill & Quire, the Toronto Star reported.
Opinion
As Hyperallergic's self-appointed cat correspondent, I feel an occasional duty to branch out and offer you more from the always colorful intersection of art and animals. Turns out it's a good week for that. Today: a man living inside a bear carcass and a coffee shop for birds — both of which are bei
News
Not long ago we wrote about a study that took up the question of who is an artist, examining some of the ways in which defining creative workers is difficult. On Monday the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) added to the conversation by releasing a new data set called "Keeping My Day Job: Identif
Opinion
Earlier today @museumnerd tweeted out a link to a view of Michael Heizer's land work "Double Negative" (1969) in Google Maps. Viewed in satellite, from high above, Heizer's 1,500-foot-long trenches looks almost incidental, like cuts made with scissors into the skin of the earth.
News
The Austrian government is considering buying one of the country's best-known private art collections in a bid to help save its owner's company. Collector and businessman Karlheinz Essl has appealed to the Austrian minister of culture to purchase his 7,000-piece art collection, the Guardian reported
Art
Today, the name "Vivian Maier" is far from unknown. People around the world have seen and read about Maier's photographs, taken in New York, Chicago, and countless other places during the second half of the 20th century.
Opinion
The question of how our creative forebears organized their time makes for fascinating fodder. This is the subject of Mason Currey's 2013 book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, which RJ Andrews, of Info We Trust, has now mined to create data visualizations of the daily routines of a number of historic
Interview
I've been thinking a lot recently about counting. Counting can feel lonely sometimes, like you against the world, so I'm always grateful when I encounter other people doing the same. Like artist Micol Hebron.
News
The Delaware Art Museum will sell at least three, possibly four artworks, to raise money to pay off its debt, the News Journal has reported. The move would violate the rules of both the Association of Art Museum Directors and the American Alliance of Museums, likely bringing sanctions on the Delawar
Art
Last December, artist and comedian Miriam Elia raised funds on Kickstarter to publish the first edition of a satirical book she had written with her brother, Ezra. Called We Go to the Gallery, the book is a riff on what's popularly known in the UK as the "Peter and Jane" series. But shortly after th