Art

Ai Weiwei releases heavy metal music video

The Chinese dissident artist's single, "Dumbass," is a provocative response his 81-day detention VIDEO

Prachi Gupta Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:18 PM UTC
Entertainment Video, Ai Weiwei, Music, Art

Amazon set to launch fine-art gallery

This summer, the retail giant will throw its cap into the fine-art market by opening an online art store

Jillian Steinhauer, Hyperallergic Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:24 PM UTC
Technology Hyperallergic, Art, amazon

New York’s most persecuted subway artist?

Enrico Miguel Thomas is taking legal action against the city after routine harassment at the hands of the MTA

Mostafa Heddaya, Hyperallergic Sunday, May 19, 2013 7:00 PM UTC
Social Hyperallergic, Art

Pollution as ancient Chinese art

With the help of Photoshop, artist Yao Lu has made shanshui — traditional ink paintings — of China's landfills

An Xiao, Hyperallergic Saturday, May 18, 2013 6:00 PM UTC
Social Hyperallergic, Art, China

Chimp’s blurry pictures to fetch six figures at auction

Mikki, a chimpanzee from the Moscow Circus, is renowned for his Polaroid photography

Allison Meier, Hyperallergic Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:00 PM UTC
Life Hyperallergic, Art, Photography

Photographed secretly at home: Is it art?

A gallery show features pictures of residents shot through their windows. The subjects are understandably annoyed

Mary Elizabeth Williams Friday, May 17, 2013 2:41 PM UTC 50
Life Photography, Art, controversy

Taxing technology to save the arts

French officials are considering a new levy on internet-connected devices to help fund cultural initiatives

Mostafa Heddaya, Hyperallergic Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:00 PM UTC
Social Hyperallergic, Apple, Art, Culture

Detroit’s RoboCop statue is almost complete

See pictures of the ten-foot-tall prototype

Prachi Gupta Monday, May 13, 2013 6:54 PM UTC
Entertainment robocop, Detroit, statue, Art, Movies

Chris Brown’s mural upsets L.A. neighbors

City officials have asked the rapper to remove the art within 30 days

Prachi Gupta Monday, May 13, 2013 1:52 PM UTC 10
Entertainment Chris Brown, Los Angeles

First Western painting of Native Americans discovered at the Vatican

It's a detail in the Borgia Apartment

Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic Tuesday, May 7, 2013 3:58 PM UTC
Life Hyperallergic, Italy, Art, Painting

Send her your sexts

Karen Finley's exhibit at the New Museum will feature sketches and oil paintings of patrons' smutty sex pics

Ej Dickson Thursday, May 2, 2013 9:16 PM UTC
Social Art, Sexting, new museum

Google Earth as art

In his latest installation, Jeroen Nelemans views a suburban home through the lens of virtual technology

Alicia Eler, Hyperallergic Thursday, May 2, 2013 6:56 PM UTC
Technology Hyperallergic, Google

Does painting still matter?

A recent panel at the Pratt Institute concludes that the medium remains the "queen of the arts"

Patrick Neal, Hyperallergic Sunday, Apr 28, 2013 9:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Hyperallergic, Art, Painting

When maps are art

Artists' takes on what maps mean now

Laura Mallonee, Hyperallergic Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 4:40 PM UTC
Entertainment Hyperallergic, Maps, Art, Dallas

New Yorkers’ newest opportunity to step all over you

A French street artist has pasted photo booth images of anonymous pedestrians along the street in Times Square

Allison Meier, Hyperallergic Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 9:39 PM UTC
Entertainment Hyperallergic, Art, installation

When we all smelled like teen spirit

"NYC 1993" at the New Museum offers a sampling of the earnest, overtly political art of the early 1990s

Jennifer Kabat, The Weeklings Sunday, Apr 21, 2013 7:00 PM UTC
Life The Weeklings, Art, new museum

Bush on his paintings: Some people are surprised I can even read

I take "great delight in bursting stereotypes," the artsy ex-president adds

Prachi Gupta Monday, Apr 15, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 23
Entertainment George W. Bush, paintings

Fed up Louvre staff strikes over roving bands of pickpockets

Petty criminal gangs have infiltrated the Paris museum, bullying staff workers and robbing unwitting tourists

Allison Meier, Hyperallergic Friday, Apr 12, 2013 6:48 PM UTC
Life Hyperallergic, Art, Museums, louvre

Irish coin commemorating James Joyce misquotes “Ulysses”

The bank acknowledges its mistake, but dismisses it as "artistic representation"

Prachi Gupta Friday, Apr 12, 2013 3:56 PM UTC 15
Entertainment James Joyce, ulysses, Ireland

Why do we love to look at strangers’ family photographs?

Like all great art, found photography invites its viewer to multiple interpretations and readings

Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Weeklings Thursday, Apr 11, 2013 4:58 PM UTC
Life The Weeklings, Art, Photography

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