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'Antiques Roadshow' Turns Up Original van Dyck Painting
Antiques Roadshow has done it again! The British TV program has uncovered an exceptional art find: an original portrait by Anthony van Dyck.
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Crowning the Selfie King
CHICAGO — The race for selfie king is on. James Franco's piece in the New York Times now rivals Benny Winfield Jr.'s interview in VICE. But there are multiple selfie kings, not just one.
Poetry
"Looking at Me With Magic" by B. J. Love
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by B.J. Love for for the latest in a monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, UK's scary internet filter, more on Nazi-era art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, a London church builds a replica of Israeli's West Bank barrier, ridiculous moments from Pussy Riot's first TV interview, James Franco on celebrity selfies, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Time
With the year coming to a close, it's time to think about time.
Poetry
A Baker’s Dozen: Recommendations of Poetry Published in 2013
By Michael Leong, Albert Mobilio, Barry Schwabsky, and John Yau
Art
Stephen Westfall’s Breakthrough
I went to Stephen Westfall’s exhibition, Jesus and Bossa Nova, at Lennon, Weinberg (November 7, 2013–January 4, 2014) twice on the same day. The second time I walked through the gallery’s long narrow space verified my initial thought, which is that the layout of the exhibition could be read as a nar
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (December 2013, Part 2)
Reviews of Jake Bugg, Veronica Falls, Danny Brown, and M.I.A.
Art
The Pursuit of Art, 2013
Memories fade. That’s the one good reason, as far as I can see, to compile an end-of-year list. It’s sometimes startling to retrace what attracted my attention over the course of a year; it is also instructive to determine where such a miscellany of shows fits in with ongoing areas of interest, and
Opinion
6 Videos from the Past that Predicted the Future
Which television family do you prefer: the Jetsons or the Simpsons? If you picked the former, you will certainly enjoy this visit to the future past, when sci-fi-esque advertisements provided a vision of the then-future, which is now a part of our present reality.
Art
The Many Contradictions of a "Ghetto Biennale"
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In 2011, for the second Ghetto Biennale, artist Jason Metcalf hired a Haitian translator to translate the chapter on creolization from Nicholas Bourriaud's The Radicant into Creole and distributed it throughout Port-au-Prince, the location of the biennale. When I read about t
Art
The Geometric Perfection of Snowflakes
We all grew up hearing that each snowflake is unique, but Moscow-based Alexey Kljatov's macrophotography of snowflakes makes your realize the mind-blowing complexity of these crystalline marvels.