Hrag Vartanian
Editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic
Appears in 20 Episodes
Ancient Art, Wages, and Strikes: A 3000-Year-Old History of Labor
At Hyperallergic, we take pride in covering protesting museum workers who take to the streets. But few realize that these workers are taking part in a practice that’s ...
Lady Pink, the Queen of New York City Graffiti
In 1971, a seven-year-old Sandra Fabara moved with her family from a city nestled in an Ecuadorian rainforest to the dense brick landscape of Brooklyn. By the time she...
Street Stories: Graffiti and the Legacy of Martin Wong
The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) holds what is arguably the most important collection of early graffiti art and ephemera, amassed by Martin Wong, a queer Chin...
Talking a Big Game: The Art of Sports and the Sport of Art
We’ve been taught by high school movies and pop culture at large that art and sports are diametrical opposites. You know the trope: The sporty jocks and the nerdy thea...
Nick Cave Is Serving You Everything
One of seven brothers, Nick Cave grew up watching his family create magic out of scraps. His aunts would cut paper bags into patterns, and in just one day, make an ent...
The Boys in the (Klan) Hood: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston’s Legacy
Philip Guston, an Ashkenazi Jew, and Trenton Doyle Hancock, a Black artist with a strict Southern Christian upbringing, came from vastly different backgrounds. But a c...
Joyce Kozloff’s Patterns of Protest
In 1973, gallerist Tibor de Nagy gave Joyce Kozloff a call. His voice quivered as he told her that Clement Greenberg had just left the back room after giving a searing...
Karen Wilkin: Critiquing the New Masters
In the late 1950s, a Manhattan-born college student was running from an art history course at Barnard to a George Balanchine ballet practice at the storied School of A...
Guantánamo Bay and the Art of Resistance
This August, journalist Moustafa Bayoumi broke the story that the first photo of a detainee in a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) black site had been declassified. It...
Lucy Lippard’s Life on the Frontlines of Art
When Lucy Lippard left New York City for the tiny village of Galisteo, New Mexico, some were shocked: How could this giant of 20th-century art criticism, this leader i...
Robber Barons, Marcel Duchamp, and Big Museums’ Dirty Little Secrets
In 1915, Marcel Duchamp bought a snow shovel at a hardware store in New York City. He inscribed his signature and the date on its wooden handle. On the evening this ep...
Silver Skeleton Deities and Political Mind Games: What’s Happening at the Venice Biennale?
The sports world may be on the edge of their seats as we draw close to the 2024 Olympics in Paris. But the “Olympics of the art world” is already well underway in Ital...
Shelley Niro's 500 Year Itch
Shelley Niro (Kanien’kehaka) grew up watching her father craft faux tomahawks to sell to tourists who flocked to her birthplace, Niagara Falls. In this episode of the ...
Lee Quiñones: Graffiti and the Gallery
Anyone who remembers New York City’s “golden age” of graffiti in the late ’70s and early ’80s knows about the lion spray-painted on the handball court at Corlears Juni...
From Blog to Book
Since 2009, Hyperallergic has published tens of thousands of articles about art. But who are the writers behind these posts? And what drives them to write about art of...
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt: The Story of One of the Few Artists at the Stonewall Uprising
We are thrilled to be back with a new episode of the Hyperallergic podcast. For our one hundredth episode, we spoke with legendary collage and mixed media artist Tommy...
The Cartoonist the US Right-Wing Political Establishment Loves to Hate
Eli Valley is one of the best American cartoonists and the political elite can’t stand his viral comics that pack a punch.
Artists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin Discuss Digital Combines
Two new media-based artists have a conversation about the new energy in the contemporary art field and the limitations of categories for artists.
Tamara Lanier's Fight for the Photographs of Her Enslaved Ancestors at Harvard
In this episode of the Hyperallergic podcast, Lanier talks about her continuing quest for justice that includes the return of the daguerreotypes depicting her enslaved...
Understanding Why a Harvard Museum Will Return Standing Bear’s Tomahawk
Attorney Brett Chapman explains why this Ponca heirloom should be returned to Native Americans.
