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The greatest power of architecture lays not in its ability to create dazzling baubles to brand international cities but in the way it shapes how we actively live our lives, revealing new possibilities and shifting our perceptions. The new Black Family Visual Art Center (VAC) at Dartmouth College, wh
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BERKELEY, California — These days, we experience the world on a much more international level. Whether online or through travel, the world feels smaller to us. As this trend continues, artistic experiences hosted online, available for anyone in the world with a internet connection to access, grow in
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Art always has some sense of place, whether it is the result of where it was created or the setting it is placed in, but art as a place can be something truly transporting that goes beyond installation to become a world unto itself. I've seen shades of this in two current shows, Jonah Freeman and Ju
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CHICAGO — The excitement and buzz around Expo Chicago, the Windy City's resurgence into the international art world, felt deafening. Practically every artist in the city who knew how to handle art was in some way involved with the fair. Newcity newspaper, the city's #1 alt-weekly, published "Chicago
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On Friday, October 5, starting at 8pm, Hyperallergic will be celebrating its Third Anniversary with a party at Andrew Ohanesian's "The House Party" in Pierogi Boiler … and you need to come!
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Dumbo Arts Festival returns this weekend (Friday, September 28–Sunday, September 30) for a cross-cultural moshpit of multimedia exhibitions, events, performances, and installations.
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This week, it's all about the weekend. Get ready for an arts festival in Dumbo, an art-book fair in Queens, and your last chance to ferry out to Governors Island.
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BERKELEY, California — I just moved to Berkeley, California after living in Brooklyn for two years and the second arts institution I visited was SFMoMA (the first was the Luggage Store gallery but I didn't have my camera with me). The museum is not unpleasant but has an odd construction with a consi
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All of us crave bad things, and want them bad. Do we know they damage us? Yes. Does it still feel good in the heat of the moment? Absolutely. Do we vow to stop? Of course. Do we do it again? Well, uh ... Most art tackles this bad-things-feel-good conundrum with angst, fire, and brimstone. Jae Yong K
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CHICAGO — At the beginning of 2012, Art Chicago was canceled by the owners of the Merchandise Mart, the huge exhibition area on the river where the fair was held for a few years. For the first time in over thirty years, it looked like there would be no art fair in the city. Then, thanks to the deter
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On view in Chelsea right now are three gallery shows that offer drastically different takes contemporary takes on minimalism. Two are from classic minimalist artists: Robert Irwin and Richard Tuttle have pioneered the movement since its first flowering in the 1970s. The third artist is kind of a gut
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What do you call Wendy White’s most recent works, which are made of two or more panels that rest on the floor, hug the wall and at the same time protrude from it? Combines and hybrids are the obvious answers, but those familiar designations hardly tell the story. There is something fresh about White