News
The name Googoosh is pop cultural catnip to people across Western and Central Asia, and her latest video "بهشت" (Behesht or Heaven), which was released on Valentine's Day, may be the first explicit reference to lesbianism in mainstream Iranian pop culture.
Books
PARIS — The post-media suggestion itself has been the subject of deliberation for around two decades now. This audacious anthology cleverly brings some of these historical texts together, along with newly commissioned ones, to explore the shifting ideas and speculative practices associated with the
Art
LOS ANGELES — This week, a new selfie trend pissed people off. Jason Feiffer, the same guy who dug around on Instagram and discovered funeral selfies, discovered the creepy "selfies with homeless people" trend.
Art
Frank Lloyd Wright believed dense urban cities would never make it into the next century. He wrote that "the citizen of the near future preferring horizontality — the gift of his motorcar, and telephonic or telegraphic inventions — will turn and reject verticality as the body of any American city."
Opinion
This week, Jasper Johns speaks about his new series, Gehry critique, world press freedoms, what makes a good photo, origin of the word fuck, scientists make nuclear fusion, and more.
Opinion
On Wednesday, Hyperallergic's Mostafa Heddaya reported on the Museum of Modern Art's attempt to save face by saving the bronze plate facade of the American Folk Art Museum.
Music
In part 1 of this month, reviews of 2 Chainz, Panic! at the Disco, Jason Isbell, David Bowie, and El-P & Killer Mike.
Art
Josephine Halvorson transcribes the anonymous, weather-beaten traces left by those who might otherwise have left no other mark of their existence behind.
News
Tonight, Kickstarter announced they had a security breach early this week, and they didn't know until law enforcement officials told them on Wednesday night.
Interview
A couple of years ago, while we were walking through the de Kooning exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Ryan Cobourn said to me, “Your interviews with artists should be more informal and rambling. You should do them, y’know, over beer.”
Art
The life of French photographer Charles Marville, the subject of a retrospective currently at the Metropolitan Museum, comes down to us hazy in its contours. Born Charles-François Bossu in 1813 to a family of artisans and tradesmen, Marville rid himself of “Bossu” (hunchback) after being teased abou
Art
There may be some great-looking specimens of postwar art in Re-View: Onnasch Collection — an exhibition that turns Hauser & Wirth’s cavernous Chelsea outpost into a mini-museum offering the kind of intimate experiences that have been all but lost in New York’s uptown behemoths — but the show also ar