News
Felix Salmon just posted an incandescent piece on the State of the Art World seen through the lens of Davos. At a meeting of plutocrats and artists, Salmon sees collectors buying art not for its aesthetic quality but for its aura: the respect and awe that comes with owning something really expensive
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Today's cutest news of the day ever: superstar comic artist James Kochalka, of American Elf fame, has just been named the Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont. He is the second Cartoonist Laureate in the United States; the only other state to have one is Alaska. Random? Yes. Awesome? Definitely.
Opinion
space If Hyperallergic was a teen magazine, Museum of Modern Art design curator Paola Antonelli would totally be our crush of the moment. In this video, from Vice's Creators Project, see Antonelli discuss the “communication” that takes place between people and technology, through the medium of desig
Art
In another giant leap for art online, Google has released Art Project, a collaboration with a group of 17 international art museums, including New York's own Metropolitan and Museum of Modern Art, to put their collections online. But this isn't just a rehash of some online slideshow. Museums partici
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The Smithsonian Board of Regents met on January 31st with Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough to discuss the fallout from the recent censorship scandal at the National Portrait Gallery. In its released report, the Board fails to make a strong statement against the censorship but suggests several w
Opinion
This weekend's Required Reading brings us up to speed on the situation of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, plus catches up on some of the things we missed while breaking the news, from movies demystifying the myth of the artist to video games histories and questions of morality and happiness.
News
The Smithsonian's Board of Regents, the highest administrative body of the organization, will be meeting on Monday January 31st with Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough to discuss his decision to censor David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” from the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek exhibit
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There's a pile of sunflower seeds on sale at Sotheby's upcoming February 15 Contemporary Art Evening Auction, and it's going for an equally large pile of money. How does $120,000 for 100 kilograms of seeds sound? But these aren't just any seeds: they're the same hand-crafted porcelain replicas that
Books
Alison Young is a lawyer and a professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, but don't let that intimidate you. She has also extensively covered the Australian street art world, writing and teaching on the “intersection of law, crime and culture.” In Street|Studio: The Place of Street Art in
Opinion
In our book review from last week, we looked at the art-world comic book Adventures of Grossmalerman, the often-bloody satire of a bad-boy German painter. This video episode of Grossmalerman lampoons the classic cliche of a studio visit: a standoffish critic takes one look at the artist's latest can
Art
At a preview of the New Museum's George Condo retrospective, I was struck by the painter's relentless engagement with all sorts of art historical genres, from Baroque portraiture to abstract expressionism and back again. Here's a photo essay covering the entire Condo exhibition, from the salon style
Art
Joe Zucker’s solo exhibition A Unified Theory at not one, but two Mary Boone gallery outposts is an affair that stretches from day-glo exuberance to quiet, eloquent historicism. In the gallery’s 24th street space, an exhibition of mosaic works on gypsum sees Zucker breaking down the representational