News
City Councilmembers in Atlanta are proposing an ordinance that would require anyone wishing to display "public art" on their private property to obtain a labyrinthine string of permits and approvals, Creative Loafing has reported.
Opinion
Over at Gawker, John Cook has posted a highly entertaining video commissioned by the Pentagon in 2001 to educate its staff on protocol for handling Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
Opinion
At Planet Money, Quoctrung Bui has compiled data to take a cursory look at the question: "What's the link between household income during childhood and job choice during adulthood?"
Books
It seems like a lot of artists just have it together, never missing a beat in churning out work as if on an assembly line powered by boundless creativity. Of course the truth is, everyone gets in a rut sometimes that can feel like being lodged in the Mariana Trench.
Interview
Shortly after last week's incident at "Prada Marfa," Hyperallergic interviewed Joseph Magnano, aka 9271977, the man who vandalized Elmgreen & Dragset's sculpture in the Texas desert.
News
Guggenheim Foundation gets sued, artists return to LA MOCA's board, gallery expansions, the world's biggest collaborative mural, and more from the week in art news.
Art
I know what you're thinking. There can't be a 'how to talk about Oscar Murillo' because we don't have a decade or so of commentary, he's too new to have talking points. He's 28 for God's sake, you protest.
Art
Sporting purple sequins and proposing buildings with moveable dragon fly wings, Eugene Tssui wants to redefine the way we live through an "evolutionary architecture."
Art
What if we were more aware of the thoughts and exchanges that we're unwittingly making public? That's the intention of neverhitsend, a 12-person LA-based arts and technology collective that formed in 2013, post–Snowden leaks, to discuss issues of digital communications today.
Books
Meticulously painted like old advertising signs but conveying the kind of telegraphed poetry you might find scrawled on a bathroom wall, Stephen Powers's murals have been lodged into the street dialogue of cities from New York to Philadelphia to Belfast. A new book brings together the narrative of h
News
The question of who, exactly, is an artist — what that word means, who defines herself by it — has always been a tricky one. All sorts of surveys define "artist" in their own way and then move on with results, but a new study in the journal Poetics takes up the root question itself.
Art
Disposable and deteriorated, the developer trays used by photographers are usually discarded.