Art
Experience Lost Lectures NY Two in Photos
The magnificent industrial scenery at Building #269 (The Agger Warehouse), tucked away inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard, set the stage for a truly unforgettable night for our second Lost Lectures NY.
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News
Murder Trial of Artist Zwelethu Mthethwa Begins in South Africa
After two years of postponements, the trial of artist Zwelethu Mthethwa finally got underway last week in Cape Town. Mthethwa pleaded not guilty to the murder of a woman named Nokuphila Kumalo.
Art
Photographs from the Forgotten Underground Tunnels of World War I
Over a century after World War I broke out in Europe, the earth still bears its mutilations.
Art
Designers Remix Corporate Logos to Reflect Human Rights Abuses in Qatar
A logo is a sacred thing in business. Consumers use them to identify trusted companies that make dependable products.
News
Five Cooper Union Trustees Call It Quits
Last night five members of the Cooper Union's board of trustees resigned: real estate mogul Mark Epstein (the board's former chairman), Vassar College president Catharine Bond Hill, architects Daniel Libeskind and Francois de Menil (the board's vice chairman), and investment banker Monica Vachher.
Art
MoMA Is Archiving Its Exhibition Websites Before They Expire
Soon over 200 exhibition websites for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), going back to its first web experiments in 1995, will be totally archived, from their images to their code.
Interview
A Painter Who Cuts Up Figures with "Knife-Edge Stuff"
After beginning his career as a social “insider” who painted the upper echelons of British society, Justin Mortimer relaunched himself by painting dark, difficult, and disjointed works.
Poetry
Two Poems by Monica Ong
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected two poems by Monica Ong for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
News
Lucian Freud's Silly and Suggestive Teenage Letters Go Up for Sale
Most of us would be embarrassed if private letters we'd written in the notorious naïveté of youth were read by strangers.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: cops catch Dale Chihuly employee stealing glass en masse, Nebraska teen lights sculpture on fire, and a Florida man's tin-foil-wrapped house is not a hit with neighbors.
Art
ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a contemporary apocalyptic opera, a collaboration with Afghan weavers, a film trilogy from a Mexico City-based artist, and more.
News
Artist Tania Bruguera Arrested Again in Havana, Injured by Police
This weekend artist Tania Bruguera was arrested once again in Cuba, along with dozens of other activists, and was manhandled by the police.