Art
During the annual Miami art fair week, the art world descends on the city in the sun, and this year we're trying something new. Hypersalon is a weeklong series of salon-style exhibitions, daily artist talks, and hosted conversations examining networked culture in contemporary art.
News
International museum associations have come to the defense of Spain's Reina Sofia museum after a provocative artwork drew fire from church groups.
Art
Everybody to the polls! No, we're not talking about the US elections tomorrow — although you should also go to those polls — we're talking about Hyperallergic and the Storefront for Art and Architecture's annual Critical Halloween costume contest.
Opinion
The Internet Archive, the non-profit behind the Wayback Machine and countless other digital resources, has just launched the Internet Arcade, a free online database of about 900 classic arcade games you can play in your browser.
News
Philadelphia's Temple University is adding about 360 self-published art books and magazines to its library's special collections thanks to the artist and zine-maker Beth Heinly.
Interview
"In fact, it’s funny, Latin American art exhibits tend to bother the shit out of me. Partly because it’s my field."
Art
Photography, which has been in existence for roughly 175 years, is now an everyman’s medium. The 1888 Kodak #1 camera first made the art form broadly accessible; the iPhone has now turned everyone technically proficient. But before Kodak, and long before Apple, photography was a laborious endeavor.
Comics
New notebooks are pure potential!
Opinion
This week, an alternative history of US art, making bad reviews disappear, the art of sushi, LA and sci-fi, Picasso and the camera, and more.
Opinion
Picasso is suddenly everywhere — at the Cubism exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, in gallery shows of his photography and his portraits of Jacqueline Roque, and at the long-delayed reopening of his museum in Paris.
Poetry
When I recall the poet Harvey Shapiro, who died not long before his eighty-ninth birthday in January 2013, I remember having lunch with him on a sweltering August afternoon in 2001, New York City’s hottest day in twenty-five years, or so the radio said.
Art
Catherine Murphy calls herself “an observational painter,” but that modest self-characterization tells only part of what she has been up to for the past twenty years.