Opinion
After family dinners, Louise Bourgeois says of her childhood, everyone “was supposed to bring some kind of entertainment.” Dinner entertainment clearly came with a sense of obligation. It wasn’t, exactly, fun.
Opinion
Periodically Hyperallergic delves into the video archives of the internet to present a daylong series we've named after the 1983 classic Canadian sci-fi film by David Cronenberg, Videodrome. Today, we do it again.
News
A demonstration on Tuesday by workers at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) did little to advance negotiations between a union representing over 200 employees at the institution and museum administrators, who are maintaining their call for a cut to employee healthcare coverage.
Art
PARIS — During springtime in Paris, one frequently meets beaming American newlyweds on their honeymoon.
Art
On Saturday evening about 300 people descended on the tiny People's Garden under the elevated J and Z tracks in Bushwick for the opening of Paintings in Trees, a group show of paintings, drawings, and sculptures installed in every available space in the park, including the trees.
Opinion
Le Corbusier designed glimmering high-rises while Salvador Dali painted implausible landscapes, yet they had one thing in common: both embraced the golden ratio as gospel and used it in their work.
Art
DETROIT — Detroit Boom City is an ambitious installation orchestrated by Atlanta’s Dashboard Co-Op by invitation of the Ford Motor Company Fund, featuring some of Detroit’s most innovative artists.
News
The National Center for Historical Memory has announced an international competition to design a National Museum of Memory to commemorate the victims of the fighting in Colombia.
News
This week in art news: Art Spiegelman withdrew his cover for the New Statesman, the Frick Collection abandoned its expansion plans, and Glenn Lowry's $2.1 million salary was scrutinized in the wake of MoMA's staff protests.
Art
Number of official colors used by the US government = 650
Art
In 1974, French writer Georges Perec's "An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris" is part of the inspiration behind Kyle McDonald's new online interactive Exhausting a Crowd.
Art
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — After a total mindfuck of a weekend at Superscript, perhaps it is fitting that I began writing this attempt at a postscript in a note on my iPhone in airport terminals both with and sans-wifi, while hovering over grids of gradated green, ascending through strata of cumuli and