Art
In a forthcoming book titled Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs, photographer Paul Koudounaris brings before his lens bejeweled skeletons long-lost in the catacombs of Rome.
Art
The Bushwick Community Darkroom, which in July made a minor relocation following a three-fold rent hike on its previous space, is a hub for the area's emerging photographers and artists.
Art
Every once in a while a sentence comes along and energizes us with its singular lack of meaning, the tinny sound made by so many letters, marched into so many words, all profaning the artworks they are meant to elevate.
News
The Chinese government has partially and improperly demolished a portion of a studio compound in Shanghai, and used non-uniformed security personnel to threaten and intimidate its occupants, Hyperallergic has learned.
Opinion
Yesterday, The Paris Review did a Reddit AMA, which by now is a reliable station on the digital PR circuit.
Art
LONDON — A major survey of outsider art, Hayward Gallery's Alternative Guide to the Universe closed on August 26. It was a show featuring many of outsider art's most prolific practitioners of the last several decades, all under the aegis of providing institutional space for "alternative" modes of kn
Art
An exhibition opening September 13 at Sean Kelly gallery imagines the precise inverse, pairing memory and cartography to explore the abstractions produced when mental and physical space are entwined.
Art
Browsing the early websites of major art museums makes for an entertaining exercise.
News
As marijuana inches toward (partial) legalization across the United States, the once-grubby world of glass pipemaking is seeing an artistic surge, with a number of artists crossing over from the subculture and into the mainstream of glass art.
Art
Kanye West, seasoned rap man and unflappable artiste, recently played a $3 million gig for the son of Kazakhstan's dictator for life. Dennis Rodman is back in North Korea, for the second time this year, to pal around with unrepentant mass-murder Kim Jong-Un. Or, in Rodman's words: "I'm going to Nort
Opinion
The Art Newspaper is reporting that the Louvre has launched a €1 million crowdfunding campaign to pay for the conservation of its "Winged Victory of Samothrace," a 2nd-century BCE sculpture of Nike.
Art
LONDON — In a time of acute upheaval, there is something comforting about the concurrent retrospectives currently on view at the Tate Modern for two seminal Arab modernists, Saloua Raouda Choucair and Ibrahim El-Salahi.