Books
The Bookish Queer: Locating Queer Literature, Then and Now
How did queer writers and bookish types find queer content in the past and how they do it today, when so many of the past networks would appear to have dispersed?
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Art
Overlooked African-American Explorer at Center of Bahamian Venice Pavilion
The Bahamas is making its Venice Biennale debut this year with a look at one of history's overlooked Arctic explorers, a man who may have even been the first to set foot on the North Pole.
Opinion
Department of Homeland Security Seeks ... Arts Administrators
Are you an arts administrator with experience in any of "the arts, entertainment, motion picture, and television industries"? Has strip-mining the world for talent with 501(c)(3) impunity left you with an aching void where once resided a crystalline commitment to truth and beauty? Are you an America
Opinion
The Internet Has a Lot to Say About NSA Surveillance
Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably fully aware that the US government's National Security Agency (NSA) can read your email, track your web movements, and access your Skype, Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and almost any other major internet account (strangely, Twitter seems exem
Interview
A Print Outpost for America's Overlooked Art Metropolises
CHICAGO — The idea of a city-specific annual art magazine available only in a tightly bound assortment of chunky-thick pages, glossy front-and-back covers, and near-cardstock paper is the antithesis of what we at Hyperallergic present to you, dear reader. In a world of increasingly networked experie
Opinion
How Diverse Is the Venice Biennale?
A special report in the June 2013 edition of The Art Newspaper delves into the question of diversity, or lack thereof, of artists in the international art olympics that is the 55th Venice Biennale.
Art
Today, #AskAMemeMaker About the Meaning of Memes in Culture
What is a meme? How is it a part of our greater cultural dialogue? Jump on Twitter to #AskAMemeMaker today, and join in a dialogue on just how memes can be more than just internet noise.
Opinion
This North Korean Art Factory Will Build Monuments to Your Leaders
Here's something you may not have known: there's a massive art factory in North Korea that makes monuments, sculptures, statues museums, and more for at least a dozen countries around the world. In a fascinating story in Bloomberg Businessweek, writer Caroline Winter lays out the details — or at lea
Art
Everything Is Nothing: The Artwork of Sopheap Pich
A figure of the Buddha hangs at the center of a small gallery filled with natural light. Only the head and shoulders have been given form, the torso a tangle of rattan strands falling away, red ink-dyed tips curving upwards, recoiling from the floor. This ethereal sculpture, “Buddha 2” (2009), is th
Art
Art Rx
This week, the doctor prescribes lots of artist talks, a few openings, and the Museum Mile festival.
Art
Urban Heroes of Istanbul: It's About Public Space
ISTANBUL — Last Monday night, the word on Twitter was that the police tanks were coming back to the square from the southeast. Thousands rallied, adorned in their bike helmets, swimming goggles, and bright smiles underneath their gas masks.
Art
Cats Take Over the Art World
Common journalistic wisdom has it that it takes three examples of a phenomenon to make a trend. 1) Kitty City, a metropolis/playground for cats that was built at Flux Factory in May and unveiled with a kitten adoption drive the first weekend in June; 2) The Cat Show, an exhibition devoted to cats, a