Comics
A Young Artist Seduced by Attention
The attention and flattery felt so good, because the rest of the time I was terrified.
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Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a new photo of Oscar Wilde, ancient art being used as a weapon in Syria, a meme hurts HK protesters, the importance of artists' queer identities, how Goya landed in Boston, San Fernando Valley art history, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Fence
On Wednesday, Julia Pierson, the director of the Secret Service, resigned.
Art
Against Despotic Forms of Perfection: Jane Corrigan’s New Paintings
The focus of Jane Corrigan’s first solo show at Kerry Schuss is young female athletes who, by virtue of their age – they are adolescents – are likely to be undergoing biological changes as well.
Art
The Other World Within This One: On Jane Freilicher
Jane Freilicher's still-life paintings have a large-scale, panoramic quality associated with landscapes. Conversely, her landscapes focus on nature's compactness and textures so that they convey the intimate solidities of still-life.
Art
Four Artists, Breezing through Materials and Ideas
The Fitzroy Gallery on the Lower East Side has gathered together four like-minded artists for an exhibition that appears to stem from a Casualist approach, but a closer look quickly complicates the picture.
Art
A Group Show, for the Pleasure of Its Company
It’s a display of mostly gallery artists, perfunctorily titled Fall 2014 Group Show and hung without an apparent organizing principle. There isn’t even an official closing date.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Changes to the UK's copyright law were implemented, a new Banksy mural was branded "racist", and Christie's introduced a new commission into its contracts.
Opinion
Public Display of Gay Men's Photos, Texts Incites Outcry
BERLIN — When does public, participatory art become predatory?
News
NYC Photo Exhibition Vandalized, Curator Attacked
Three individuals were involved in an attack on an exhibition in Chelsea this morning in which photographs were defaced, neo-Nazi leaflets dispersed, and a curator assaulted with pepper spray, Hyperallergic has learned.
Guide
Your Concise Guide to the 2014 Greenpoint Open Studios
A whopping 265 artists are taking part in this weekend's Greenpoint Open Studios (GOS). Here's your concise guide to exploring one of the city's most enjoyable open studio events.
Art
Five Rules for (Kinda) Viewing Art
Art critic Philip Kennicott published a guide to viewing art in the Washington Post this week. Lovely and thoughtful though it is, parts of it just seemed sort of ... old-fashioned, you know?