Art
The Carl Beam retrospective now at the National Museum of the American Indian Heye Center in Lower Manhattan could be a response to the museum itself. Located in the imposing Alexander Hamilton US Custom House, a monolithic reminder that New York City was originally built on European immigration, th
Opinion
This week's Required Reading … Banksy on UK phone-tapping scandal, Hirst-a-palooza at Gagosian Galleries worldwide, affordable Warhols, what do you do with a stolen art work, Sam Maloof, Hans Hoffmann as art teacher, how the "Mona Lisa"'s became famous and the problem with "minorities."
Interview
A few weeks ago, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA), debuted a new television series. I reviewed the debut of MoCADA TV but Hyperallergic's editor and I continually had a back-and-forth about the usefulness of TV as a medium, and the fact that this pioneering move on part of t
Art
When Apartheid was abolished in 1991, probably the worst thing to be symbolically in South Africa at the time was a white male, as it embodied everything associated with being the oppressor. With the abolishment of Apartheid came a number of important more subtle shifts.
Opinion
There's a lot of art news coming out of Milwaukee this week and all of it makes some of us wondering what the hell is happening in the city we normally associate with Laverne & Shirley and bratwurst. First, the director of Milwaukee Art Museum made silly comments that museums should not be political
News
This week … why are the Coptic churches of Egypt burning, Paul Goldberger is cynical of Rem Koolhaas, video of Alexander McQueen at the Met, profile of Cory Arcangel, tour of the 2011 Contemporary Furniture Fair, want to live on a houseboat on the Gowanus, Luna Park's Berlin pics, an interview with
Interview
The Brooklyn Museum has an extensive collection of Spanish Colonial painting, but the institution's relatively new curator of European art Richard Aste knew the museum lacked the same depth in their British colonial works. Recently, Brooklyn's premiere fine art institution announced the acquisition
News
Al-Jazeera reports [http://english.aljazeera.net/photo_galleries/middleeast/2010113011444886787.html] that the once vibrant center of Jewish life in Beirut, Lebanon, and the city's largest and oldest surving synagogue, Magen Abraham is being restored by private donations, including from local Muslim
Art
Molly Norris has been told by the FBI that she needs to change her name and go into hiding because of a cartoon she drew making fun of Comedy Central for censoring South Park. I don’t know what to do about it, but I’m not going to respond by making a cartoon ridiculing Muslims. Maybe I’ll ridicule t
Interview
It’s impossible to escape the heated rhetoric around Park51 in lower Manhattan. And now Adam Wissing, Kenny Komer, and Boris Rasin, who have been making a name for themselves for their clever and in-your-face street interventions, have joined the very public fray with a poster campaign that invites
Interview
I sit down with my laptop in a quiet, central Brooklyn café, not far from Prospect Park on a slightly overcast day in August to interview the mysterious Parisian street artist Princess Hijab. I order a San Pellegrino with lime; she abstains from any snacks or beverages. Despite the time difference f
News
After a burst of national outrage over the Prescott School District’s request to “lighten” a mural [http://hyperallergic.com/6887/arizona-school-mural-controversy/] with a large Latino figure, the School District announced at a pro-mural protest last Saturday that they are ok with the current image