Art
Every year brings another crop of art shows that make us remember why New York is so friggin' amazing. Here are our picks for what to see in New York's glorious art museums for 2012.
Opinion
Know Your Meme compiles the top 40 memes of 2011, including #5 Pepper Spraying Cop.
Art
Things are changing fast in New York — granted, when haven't they? — but the next few years in particular seem filled with promise to bring fresh architectural and design ideas and monuments that will transform this place into something new. Here are a few thing we're looking forward to in the comin
Interview
Last month, we reported on artist Ophelia Chong, who discovered that Starbucks' recent branding was strangely close to her own art work. The artist has since decided to drop the case and I asked her why.
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News
A painter best known for her groundbreaking painting "Mountains and Sea" (1952) which influenced on a whole generation of abstract painters, Helen Frankenthaler has died at the age of 83 at her home in Darien, Connecticut.
Art
CHICAGO — In a darkened gallery in the Art Institute of Chicago, a grainy video from decades ago begins. Standing with her face pressed up against a white wall, a woman reaches down and scoops up a handful of red, viscous liquid — presumably blood — from an enamel tray, and in a series of arcing ges
Interview
CAPE TOWN — Summertime in South Africa is not only a time for beach, sun and granadilla lollies (a locally-made fruit popsicle), with the influx of tourists it is also a time for survey exhibitions by galleries who want to showcase their stable of artists and give an overview of their wares.
Hyperallergic
While the popular posts on Hyperallergic get all the attention, links, comments and shares, that doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate the illuminating posts that sometimes fall under the radar of most readers for whatever reason. As a result, I thought it would be a good idea to point
Opinion
This week, the anti-slavery origins of the Christmas tree in the US, iPad art apps, Ai Weiwei documentary, Georgian architecture, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, danger in Pompeii, the state of the New Orleans art scene and Stocking.
Hyperallergic
2011.Has.Been.Our.Best.Year.Ever. This has been a year full of discontent, which is our specialty, so it was natural that we were kept busy documenting, tracking and commenting on events around the world. Take a look at what we found when we looked back on the
News
The Museum of FIT refuses to comment on their controversial sponsorship deal with Israeli settlement-developer and (possible blood) diamond magnate Lev Leviev.
Opinion
Happy Festivus everyone! What is Festivus? It is a secular holiday celebrated on December 23 as a way to celebrate the holiday season without participating in its pressures and commercialism. It was popularized by Seinfeld.