News
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
Over a century after World War I broke out in Europe, the earth still bears its mutilations.
Art
A logo is a sacred thing in business. Consumers use them to identify trusted companies that make dependable products.
News
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
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
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
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
Most of us would be embarrassed if private letters we'd written in the notorious naïveté of youth were read by strangers.
News
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
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
This weekend artist Tania Bruguera was arrested once again in Cuba, along with dozens of other activists, and was manhandled by the police.
In Brief
The Israeli government is coming down hard on a photography exhibition in Switzerland that features images of daily life in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.