In Brief
Just as the mouse may be as an "unexpected" artistic muse, so a Hollywood kids movie about a talking mouse is an unexpected place to find a missing painting from the Hungarian modernist avant-garde.
Art
This week, last chance to see the Statue of Liberty deconstructed, consider artists who excel in their old age, listen to the strange story of Alan Turing, and so much more.
Guide
With the mercury dropping in the art world power centers of old, it's time for the annual migration to Miami for Art Basel Miami Beach, its ever-expanding roster of satellite fairs and pop-up exhibitions, and the impossible schedule of parties and performances all week long (December 1–7, 2014).
News
A United Nations body is investigating the alleged abuse of laborers on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates, site of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and Louvre Abu Dhabi projects, among other museum and cultural developments.
Art
Starting today, Hyperallergic will be publishing an online catalogue for Hypersalon, a weeklong series of salon-style exhibitions, artist talks, and conversations on the conditions of networked culture in contemporary art.
News
The 2014 Turner Prize was awarded this evening to the Glasgow, Scotland–based artist Duncan Campbell, for his film "It For Others" (2013).
Art
Charles Lang Freer and Ernst Herzfeld and are two names most people wouldn't recognize, yet both men were extremely instrumental in shaping the West's perception of Asia.
News
A "security source in Salahuddin Province" informed Iraqi newspaper Kitabat that "Daash" — the Arabic-language acronym for the Islamic State — "[had] blow[n] up the tomb of the father of Saddam in Tikrit."
Books
Last month, the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History opened its doors on a clutter of curios in East London.
Comics
Go straight from high school to a kick-ass art school.
Art
Some unique artist books are currently on view at Christie's in New York.
Art
The current exhibition at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is titled, i found god in myself: The 40th Anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls. Though on its face this weighty title sounds empowering, ultimately it belies the exhibition and the or