Opinion
Yesterday, Twitter announced that it will start censoring tweets in certain countries as a concession to governments as the service expands globally. Some, including Ai Weiwei, are not happy.
Art
Today is my last day at Hyperallergic, and as much as I hate saying goodbyes, I can't leave without reflecting on the amazing journey this has been.
Opinion
Creative Time jumps on the band wagon and puts their slave labor, we mean interns to work doing their part for the meme.
Art
Christophe Laudamiel is not a purist. “I love fabric softener,” asserts the world-renowned perfumer turned high art dissident. While he’s no snob about lowbrow smells, his exhibition Phantosmia - All But the Smell, which opened on Wednesday at the Dillon Gallery in Chelsea, is an olfactory treat. Ph
Art
‘Transformative use’ is just mucking things up. That’s what I think. Providing a pivot for the Cariou v Prince case and the only real point of interest no matter what the pundits say, transformative use, instead of the fog-clearing test that it was supposed to be, has become the main particulate in
Art
Before I talk about her exhibition, I want to share an anecdote about the artist. In 1997, June Leaf breezed into my studio at the Vermont Studio Center with a disarming smile from ear to ear. (It was the first time we met.) As she looked over my work, chatting and laughing, she spotted my skateboar
Books
Sometimes a gallery’s books are more interesting than the artwork they regularly exhibit, and you can peruse their best artists and exhibitions from the confines of a well-constructed catalogue.
Opinion
I've never thrown a beer bottle across a room but I've definitely seen one break. The pieces shatter and scatter, and like a laundry detergent commercial, I wish I could just hit the rewind button and see it all come back together. Brooklyn-based artist Jonathan Schipper taps into this desire with a
Opinion
Playing to the idea of subway as symphony, Brooklyn-based Alexander Chen has tapped the MTA's train schedule and mapped it over time with Massimo Vignelli's classic (and beloved) subway map … and added music.
News
After a fire in December ravaged the Lao Buddhist Temple in Westminster, Colorado, the Laoist population of Westminster now seeks to rebuild their temple that is at the heart of their community.
Art
For this week's Art Rx dig into shows at both galleries and museums, plus an art fair, The Outsider Art Fair. There's also plenty to see (and eat) at MoMA PS1 this weekend and a show of comic books relating to Tibet at the Reuben Museum of Art that we are sure won't disappoint.
Opinion
Sure there was collage and assemblage before him, but what Pop artist James Rosenquist did in the 1960s is probably closer to our contemporary sensibilities about remix culture with its flattening of disparate images using a similar aesthetic to unify jarring visuals.