Opinion
An attacker “brandishing a felt-tipped pen” has vandalized a Basquiat painting on display at Paris' Modern Art Museum, the Daily Mail reports. Yet the victim, a work called “Cadillac Moon 1981,” (seen at left) “is of such an abstract nature that it took at least a few days for experts to notice the
Opinion
Despite the 2010 New York Art Book Fair getting quite a fair amount of press attention, photographer and fair participant Alec Soth feels that it wasn't exactly the right kind. His criticism lies not with the fair itself nor with its PR, rather, his opinion that critics don't often go out of their w
Books
The trek out to PS1 for the 2010 New York Art Book Fair [http://nyartbookfair.com/] took me on the E train to Long Island City, away from Hyperallergic's Williamsburg office. Yet somehow, the population of Williamsburg had followed me there. The concrete colonnade and ramped steps leading up to PS1'
Opinion
I thought I'd share with you a term that I encountered in my internet wanderings this morning, found in this essay by Dana Ward [http://blog.sfmoma.org/2010/11/dana-ward-on-cory-arcangel/] on artist Cory Arcangel, hat tip to Modern Art Notes' excellent Wednesday link post [http://blogs.artinfo.com/m
Opinion
A group of enterprising Oxford musicologists have endeavored to recreate the musical instruments [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/07/sam-leith-shocking-news-oxford] found in the Bosch's famed 16th century painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” a painting that's well known for its unreal
Opinion
Here come the new collectors, same as the old collectors. Barron's has an article [http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970203408504575588573549514034.html?mod=googlenews_barrons] on collectors from the developing world asking for unorthodox art deals, such as payment terms that extend ove
News
Halloween is already past, so candy is supposed to be on sale, right? Not at last night's Philips de Pury sale [http://www.phillipsdepury.com/auctions/online-catalog.aspx?sn=NY010710&search=&p=&order=] when a lucky bidder ended up paying $4.5 million for 200 pounds of blue cellophane-wrapped treats.
News
Beijing-based writer and art professional Melanie Wang brought to our attention the upcoming November 17th court case of Wu Yuren, a Chinese photographer and installation artist whose provocative work and political activism have earned him the nickname “Little Ai [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo
Opinion
The Underbelly Project [http://hyperallergic.com/11758/underbelly-project-nyc/] caused a stir last week both because of its expansive murals and because of its politics. We've argued [http://hyperallergic.com/11758/underbelly-project-nyc/] that Underbelly was a step backward for street art, and it a
Opinion
One of the most fun parts of Asia Society's Yoshitomo Nara retrospective [http://hyperallergic.com/12092/yoshitomo-nara-asia-society/] is that the galleries are soundtracked: the artist's paintings, drawings and sculptures are accompanied by a selection of handpicked tunes. Music more than anything
Art
Yoshitomo Nara's retrospective Nobody's Fool at Asia Society is what you would get if art museums loosened up and let themselves have some fun. After climbing the institution's glassy modern stairs, what greets visitors isn't a succession of white-walled galleries but a mishmash of wood-walled cubbi
Opinion
This week's post on Hyperallergic about how awesome art teachers are sparked a lot of response, so we decided to start a little Twitter action: we re-tweeted everyone who sent us their most influential art teachers, whether it was a college professor or an elementary school instructor. This heartwar