Art
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — What is Salvadoran about El Salvador is not immediately apparent in San Benito, a leafy neighborhood in the country’s capital San Salvador, where the national art museum, El Museo de Arte de El Salvador (MARTE), resides.
Art
CHICAGO — Outsider art is an overused, perhaps even misused, term. By a strict definition it refers to someone who makes art outside the official and even unofficial milieu in which artists get training, education, and exhibitions.
Art
PORTLAND — Way back in 1989, the Guerrilla Girls called attention to the fact that less than 5% of the artists in Metropolitan Museum of Art's Modern Art sections were female, but 85% of the nude works on display featured women. Twenty-five years later, it should be common practice not to create sho
News
Elmgreen and Dragset, the duo behind the recently defaced conceptual storefront "Prada Marfa," have condemned the vandalism in a statement to the Art Newspaper published earlier today. "It is crazy that we have come to a point in our culture where some individuals in their insane egomania, eager to
Community
Studios in Brooklyn, Chicago, Harvard, IL, Olympia, WA, and Sabbathday Lake, ME.
Art
MARRAKESH, Morocco — A coach full of journalists and Biennale folk gets lost, but it is not yet cause for panic. All we know is we are somewhere between Marrakesh and the Atlas Mountains.
Poetry
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Shane McCrae for his sixth in a monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
As our shuttles have gone into retirement and we look to the future of what space travel will mean for human exploration, there are plenty of artifacts left behind with which to examine the successes and failures of our journeying into beyond our atmosphere.
Interview
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of interviews with artists that will continue indefinitely, without direction, and without any one person’s control. The artists are asked seven question about their art and their ideas about art.
Performance
The L train was out of order and the night was freezing, but that didn't stop a crowd from packing into a Bushwick warehouse earlier this month for the last weekend of Puccini's La Bohème, staged by the Brooklyn-based LoftOpera.
Art
SAN FRANCISCO — Anyone who's read Arnold Lobel's iconic Frog and Toad series may wonder: why pick a frog and a toad? And what's the difference between a frog and a toad anyway?
Opinion
Economics rarely motivate people to go into the arts, and that's fine — what isn't fine are smoke-and-mirror attempts at falsely touting fiscal health of "the arts" under the guise of rigorous economic research.