Opinion
Required Reading
This week, letting art orgs die, Marina has a headache, criticism of Gehry's plans in Philly, LGBTQ issues at Manifesta 10, NYC's shadow transit system, copyrighting scents, and more.
Opinion
Opinion
Weekend Words: Copy
Has forging Pollocks become the latest in copycat crimes? This week Claire Voon brought to Hyperallergic readers the story of New York painter John Re, who was charged with selling nearly two million dollars’ worth of fake Jackson Pollocks since 2005.
Opinion
Homeless Fonts Are a Feel-Good Fail
In recent years, homeless people have been put to an impressively creative, and deeply problematic, range of uses: as wifi hot spots, as subjects for police training, as publicly minded art, and now, a new one — as typography.
Opinion
Homeless Fonts Are a Feel-Good Fail
In recent years, homeless people have been put to an impressively creative, and deeply problematic, range of uses: as wifi hot spots, as subjects for police training, as publicly minded art, and now, a new one — as typography.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Koons reviews, Facebook's emotional manipulation, artwashing, Native American map of North America, Prince's meme-inspired song, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Cell
The Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 that your cell shouldn't land you in a cell.
Opinion
Art Center's Closure Bodes Ill for Qatar
With the Qatar Museums Authority's focus on the international stage and the general public’s lack of interest, who will support the artists in Qatar who have not yet — and likely never will — achieve such fame? That is a question that is difficult to answer without the Katara Art Center.
Opinion
WTF Is the George Lucas Museum?
Yesterday morning the news broke that filmmaker George Lucas will locate his Death Star museum in Chicago, not in San Francisco or LA, as previously discussed. Also, it seems the museum is being renamed, from the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum (which was redundant anyway) to the Lucas Museum of Narrativ
Opinion
The Trouble with Favela Chic
A Milwaukee bar called Nomad World Pub wanted to create a special place for its customers to watch the World Cup, so it decided to set up a faux favela inspired by Rio de Janeiro’s poverty-stricken mountainside slums.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, blurring lines between fine art and video games, Indonesian performance artist gets YouTube famous, abstraction's sameness problem, cartoonists and censors, smartcameras, Terry Richardson the predator, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Coffee
Last weekend's Weekend Word was tea; this week, equal time for coffee.
Opinion
Copying an eBook from Cover to Cover
Artist Jesse England’s piece “E-Book Backup” (2014) is a literal copy — a photocopy, from cover to cover — of a Kindle version of George Orwell’s 1984.