Opinion
Gagosian Wants You to Shop Small?
The Madison Avenue Gagosian shop has a sign encouraging you to "Shop Small." Um, what?
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Art
The Last Selfie
LOS ANGELES — It’s the end of selfies as we know it. Dearest selfie fanatics, this will be my last story for the Hyperallergic selfie column; after one year of chronicling the selfie’s rise to fame, we collectively decided to let this investigation go off into the netherlands of internet data trails
Opinion
From Dalí to Leonardo on the Backs of Playing Cards
When Brazilian artist Sōnia Menna Barreto was a teenager in São Paulo, her mother used to stay up all night long playing cards with her friends. That memory sunk into Barreto's consciousness, surfacing in a surreal series of trompe l’oeil paintings the artist has been creating over the last few year
Comics
An Artist's Holiday
Working hard … hardly working …
Art
Cosmic Ceramics and Hunting Trophies Collide in Paris
PARIS — The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris is continuing its exhibitions among its hunting trophies and old world décor with Lin Utzon's Cosmic Dance.
Art
Lucio Fontana's Proto-Technologism
PARIS — If you want to leave all imagery behind for a free-fall into the immersive deep space of the virtual, Lucio Fontana is your quintessential man.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Glasgow's Macintosh building is mostly saved, a meditation on the essence of video games, background on the Joe Scanlan/Donelle Woolford project, the World Cup goes viral, the legacy of Anthony Caro, a giant golden calf piñata, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Multiple
Good news for a change: this week, Hyperallergic's Jillian Steinhauer covered the opening of McNally Jackson's Picture Room on Mulberry Street in Manhattan, a new shop "devoted to prints, editions, posters, and art and artists’ books."
Poetry
Adrift in the Blue Yonder: Peter Gizzi's Selected Poems
After steadily increasing for much of the twentieth century, and especially after World War II, real wages for the average worker in the United States have remained stagnant since around 1978, if in fact they haven’t slightly declined. At the time of this economic shift, Peter Gizzi was somewhere be
Art
Lethal Consumption and Silenced Clarinets
FERNDALE, MI – Often placing his work along the periphery of an exhibition space, Michael E. Smith turns the boundaries between his work and its architectural setting into a porous membrane.
News
Protesters Stage Intervention at Guggenheim's Futurist Exhibition
Last night's protest action at New York's Guggenheim Museum by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) is the group's fourth intervention and the latest to raise awareness about the labor conditions on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates.
Art
The Way West: Photographs by Peter Kayafas from America’s Open Road
When you stand on the shoulders of giants, what do you see — especially if you’re looking through an old Leica M6 rangefinder with a single, well-traveled, 35-millimeter lens, which, over a quarter of a century, has seen a lot?