Art
Since graffiti became officially legal in February (just months after Justin Bieber visited Brazil and got in trouble for spray-painting on a wall there), artists have been uninhibitedly plastering the city with images expressing their concerns about the FIFA World Cup.
News
The New York Public Library (NYPL) has done an about-face on its controversial plan to renovate its flagship research building on 42nd Street and sell the nearby building that currently houses its Mid-Manhattan library, the New York Times has reported.
News
It's that time of year again — when the British art world picks up with excitement, expectation, and eye rolling over the announcement of the annual Turner Prize nominees. The contenders for this year, the award's 30th anniversary, are Duncan Campbell, Ciara Phillips, James Richards, and Tris Vonna-
Art
After two years of protest, Frieze New York, the American offshoot of the London fair launched by the founders of the British magazine Frieze 11 years ago, will be employing union labor — in part this year and in full in 2015 and 2016.
Poetry
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected two poems by Matthew Rohrer for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Books
From the tiny harvest mouse twisting a humble home of blades of grass, to the lofty fields of compass termite towers appearing like relics of some ancient world, the structures of the animal kingdom are astounding in their complexity of forms. Nature photographer Ingo Arndt dedicated two years of tr
Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently opened the second in a series of commissions for its rooftop garden overlooking Central Park.
Books
Photographer Douglas Ljungkvist first went to Ocean Beach, New Jersey, in 1993, reluctantly. But to please his girlfriend, he stayed, and then came vacation after summer vacation of growing more attached to the little homes in their faded pastel hues.
Art
SAN FRANCISCO — On a blustery, sunny Sunday afternoon, some 40 or 50 people gathered on a quiet road in nowheresville, 45 miles south of San Francisco in a quasi-industrial area of Fremont, to “celebrate the essence of NUMMI.”
Opinion
We may have moved from magnifying glasses and paper brochures to smartphones, but otherwise not much has changed about looking at art.
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Art
Viewing living anatomy is an essential component of many art educations, but rare are the classes where this extends beyond humans.