Art
Welcome to #hypersalon
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.
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News
Glasgow School of Art Continues Turner Prize Dominance
The 2014 Turner Prize was awarded this evening to the Glasgow, Scotland–based artist Duncan Campbell, for his film "It For Others" (2013).
Art
Looking at Asia Through the Traveler's Eye
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
Tomb of Saddam Hussein's Father Allegedly Destroyed
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
The Curious Collecting Life of London's Newest Museum Proprietor
Last month, the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History opened its doors on a clutter of curios in East London.
Comics
My Art School Breakdown, Part 1
Go straight from high school to a kick-ass art school.
Art
Artists Redraw Their Own Books
Some unique artist books are currently on view at Christie's in New York.
Art
An Art Exhibition 'for colored girls'
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
Interview
Painting “Peaceful” Rather Than “Perfect”
LONDON — Regarding the use of photographs in painting, it’s no shortcut, at least not in the work of Ben Johnson.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Ferguson, David Hockney and the avant-garde, Francis Bacon's "missing" exhibition, art in a mall, Persian calligraphy, naked in a Yves Klein sculpture, the infamous 19th-century "Ape Woman," and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Climb
Recently, Cliff Bar announced the termination of its sponsorship of five professional rock climbers.
Art
Jasper Johns Refuses to Play by the Book
Currently on view in the exhibition Jasper Johns: Sculptures and Related Paintings 1957–1970 at Craig F. Starr is “Book” (1957), a work I suspect many people either don’t know about or are not likely to have seen, even in reproduction.