Jillian Steinhauer is a former Senior Editor of Hyperallergic. She writes largely about the intersection of art and politics and won the 2014 Best Art Reporting award from the US chapter of the International Association of Art Critics.
News
A year ago, Fast Company checked in on Instagram, the immensely popular photo-sharing app, nine months after its launch and called its growth "staggering." That was before Facebook acquired it, this past April, and then, in May, Instagram hit the 50 million users mark. The lesson here? People really
Interview
Somewhere along one of the exterior walls of the Museum of the Moving Image, there is a slot. It’s barely noticeable — a small, dark crevice cut into the wall, incredibly thin and not more than five inches long. If you happened to see it, you’d probably think it looks a lot like a CD/DVD drive — and
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Politico has excerpts from an upcoming Mitt Romney interview in Fortune magazine, in which the Republican presidential candidate expounds on his plan to shrink the federal government and reduce spending. Depressingly, but not surprisingly, he targets arts funding.
Art
This is largely the week of the solo exhibition, but if you need get outside for a change, head to Rockaway Beach for artistic sandcastles.
News
A week ago, voters in Michigan's Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties passed a millage to help save the Detroit Institute of Arts from a dire financial situation. And then, I guess to celebrate, they all went to the museum.
Opinion
You might say we're a society of oversharers. Memoirs are our bestsellers these days, and ordinary people pour their hearts out in front of cameras on reality TV shows. Someone has had the bright idea to turn our penchant for confession into public art.
News
Those who've been following the news out of Russia know that three members of feminist punk collective Pussy Riot are currently on trial for rushing the altar and playing an anti-Putin song in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The women called their song, which is titled "Virgin Mary, Chase Putin
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The Turkish government has admitted that some 202 artworks are missing from the State Art and Sculpture Museum in Ankara. The Culture and Tourism Ministry waited until last week to release details of a report conducted in 2010, which found that of the 202 missing pieces, 46 objects had been replaced
Opinion
Have you ever read a press release — or even, say, the first line of a press release — for an art exhibition and promptly felt like you had no idea what just happened? Like a wave of vague descriptors and questionable nouns had washed over you, all if which were supposed to combine to create some so
Opinion
Although the art world — especially the contemporary one, where nearly everything has retail value — likes to preserve and maintain artworks as much as it can, it's inevitable that some pieces get lost along the way.
Art
The doctor is in, and this week she's got you traversing the city — from Ridgewood to Red Hook, the Lower East Side to Harlem. Uptown there's a new show of work by Harlem artists; down in Dumbo, two street stencil artists share a gallery. Closing parties are also the thing, at Recess and Parallel Ar
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The proposed millage to help keep the Detroit Institute of Arts afloat passed all three counties yesterday — woohoo!