Opinion
An Amazing Look at Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Harvesters"
This great video tells the very detailed history of Bruegel's August/September masterpiece, "The Harvesters" (1565).
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Opinion
What Are Your Favorite Flood Artworks?
The staff of Hyperallergic is working from their homes today since Hurricane Sandy has us all homebound awaiting what meterologists say will be a deluge … and it got us thinking about the history of flood paintings
Interview
What Would a Revolution Look Like for the Yes Men?
A question for the Yes Men as they launch their Kickstarter campaign to fund their film: You say that this film is about revolution. What would a revolution look like for the Yes Men?
Art
Past Actions, Past Gestures: Conflux 2012
Expectation and experience seldom end up at the same destination, especially when you walk down a subway platform and see a sign that reads “To Breuckelen” and realize — no, no, the MTA hasn’t sold the L line back to the Dutch to save money; rather, you are seeing a sign hung by artist Daniel Bejar
Comics
Life Plan: Step 1. Gain Underground Cult Following …
Ugh … life, a five-step program …
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, scoring US Congress on the arts, Gangnam Style opinions and facts, science looks at us looking at art, the Seattle Art Museum goes all female, the highest skyscraper is going to be built in five months, Daniel Liebeskind is not an architect, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words
With Halloween around the corner and Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” taking up temporary residence at the Museum of Modern Art, the first Weekend Word is “terror”:
Poetry
Swallow the Meat in the Jargon
Amelia Rosselli’s is not exactly a poetry or resistance, but it is a resistant poetry. It is highly self-conscious, willed, and formally wrought. At the same time it is the product of roiling psychological and social tensions that the poet can hardly control. As Andrea Zanzotto put it, in 1976, with
Art
Hidden in Plain Sight – Wade Guyton’s Dirty Pictures
For anyone who has been following painting in New York since the beginning of the 21st century, it is not surprising that the mid-career survey devoted to Wade Guyton is currently the main attraction at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It is also not surprising that the show has been very well re
Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (October 2012)
This month, reviews of Twin Shadow, Bob Dylan,The Rough Guide to Highlife, Istanbul 70, The Sheepdogs, Orient Noir, Deadmau5, and Jens Lekman.
Art
Single Point Perspective: Michelangelo’s Telltale Elbow
One of the standouts of the new exhibition Dürer to de Kooning: 100 Master Drawings from Munich at the Morgan Library and Museum – if not the standout – is Michelangelo’s “St. Peter (after Massaccio) with Arm Studies.” (And for an exhibition bristling with stunners by Matthias Grünewald, Andrea Mant
Art
Disappearing Act: Rosemarie Trockel at the New Museum
It’s not very often that one can report that a triptych by an orangutan isn’t the best thing in a show, but it’s not very often that one has the opportunity to take stock of Rosemarie Trockel’s art. The triptych is a brushy abstraction by a simian named Tilda, and it is hanging on the second floor o