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HyperallergicHyperallergicAncient Art, Wages, and Strikes: A 3000-Year-Old History of LaborAt 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 as old as some of the ancient artifacts in their institutions. In this episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast, we’re joined by professor, public historian, and Hyperallergic contributor Sarah E. Bond, who shares her knowledge on labor organizing in the ancient world, which stretches back to the earliest recorded strike, which took place in 1157 BCE in the Ancient Egyptian artisan’s village of Deir el-Medina. 2025-05-0648 minHyperallergicHyperallergicLady Pink, the Queen of New York City GraffitiIn 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 was a teenager, she had gone from climbing trees to hopping the fences of the MTA train yards. Soon, she was known as the queen of New York City graffiti: the one and only Lady Pink. If you’re as mesmerized by the 1970s and ’80s world of New York City graffiti as we are, then you’ve seen her before, immortalized in classic photos by Martha...2025-04-221h 34HyperallergicHyperallergicStreet Stories: Graffiti and the Legacy of Martin WongThe 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 Chinese-American self-taught painter who wore cowboy hats and, for a time, paid for his lodging in a dingy Lower East Side hotel room by working as a night porter. Drawn to the bustling art scene of late 1970s New York, Wong developed a tight network of friends in what may have seemed like an unexpected community at the time: graffiti writers, who would eventually be recognized as creating an entirely...2025-04-1048 minHyperallergicHyperallergicTalking a Big Game: The Art of Sports and the Sport of ArtWe’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 theater kids are all relegated to separate lunch tables, and never the twain shall meet, save the occasional High School Musical. But a recent exhibition, Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, takes this stereotype to the mat. In this episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast, Hrag Vartanian sits down with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) curator Jennnifer Dunlop Fletcher and independent curator and former Hyp...2025-03-2538 minHyperallergicHyperallergicNick Cave Is Serving You EverythingOne 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 entire new outfit to wear that night. Since then, the artist has been dedicated to studying how to lay ornamental patterns on the body. Leading the way for a current groundswell of adornment in art, Cave is known for highly decorated, maximalist works, particularly in his “Soundsuits,” which are both unapologetically joyous and respond to the deep pain of police brutality against Black people. His newes...2025-03-1138 minHyperallergicHyperallergicThe Boys in the (Klan) Hood: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston’s LegacyPhilip Guston, an Ashkenazi Jew, and Trenton Doyle Hancock, a Black artist with a strict Southern Christian upbringing, came from vastly different backgrounds. But a current show at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan reveals that their perspectives and sensibilities blend seamlessly. Both were maligned for their figurative, comic book-influenced styles: Guston by the elite art world that was scandalized by his abandonment of abstraction for figuration, and Doyle Hancock by the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, when his mother burned his collection of Garbage Pail Kids cards and Dungeons and Dragons materials, believing that she was saving him from...2025-02-251h 04HyperallergicHyperallergicJoyce Kozloff’s Patterns of ProtestIn 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 review of her latest work. Greenberg had scoffed at the artist’s “Three Facades” (1973), a painting based on the rich tapestry of interlocking bricks and tiles on Churrigueresque church facades in Mexico, and said that it “looked like ladies’ embroidery” — as if that was a bad thing. Kozloff told us that “Tibor freaked out” and asked her “to take it away.”Greenberg had unwittingly dismissed the first of the artist's painti...2024-12-171h 32HyperallergicHyperallergicKaren Wilkin: Critiquing the New MastersIn 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 American Ballet on 82nd Street and Broadway. Soon, she began to make connections between the old-school Russian ballet instructors who taught her “ferocious point class” and were constantly “aspiring to an abstract ideal,” if a ruthless one, and the extending lines of Anthony Caro’s sculptures striving toward an arabesque. These rigorous studies in dance informed the work of the leading critic and curator of 20th-century Modernism, Karen Wilkin. Of cours...2024-12-101h 31HyperallergicHyperallergicGuantánamo Bay and the Art of ResistanceThis 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 shows an emaciated Ammar al-Baluchi, standing shackled and naked in a starkly white room. Subjected to years of torture, according to CIA protocol, the photo of the Pakistani detainee was meant “to document his physical condition at the time of transfer.” In a recent Hyperallergic opinion piece, Bayoumi reflected on the dark history of various regimes’ use of similar “atrocity photography” — a genre of memories they create for themselves that chronicle violence, but obscure...2024-12-042h 11HyperallergicHyperallergicLucy Lippard’s Life on the Frontlines of ArtWhen 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 in the fight for feminism and equitable representation in museums, leave the so-called “center of the art world” for such a rural area? Lippard is renowned not only for her strident activism but also for changing the game of art criticism itself. The author of a whopping 26 books, Lippard was a co-founder of both the standby press for artist books, Printed Matter, and the legendary feminist Heres...2024-11-261h 11HyperallergicHyperallergicRobber Barons, Marcel Duchamp, and Big Museums’ Dirty Little SecretsIn 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 episode is released, the fourth version of this classic “ready-made,” which he titled “In Advance of the Broken Arm,” will be auctioned off at Christie’s during their 20th Century Evening Sale. It’s estimated to sell for $2 million to $3 million.How could a simple snow shovel be valued at such a steep price? Was  Duchamp an unmatched genius, or a product of some of the biggest museums’ dirt...2024-11-1958 minHyperallergicHyperallergicSilver 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 Italy: Hundreds of thousands of art lovers are flocking to the Venice Biennale, which runs through November 24. This massive exhibition has been held every two years with very few exceptions since 1895, when it was inaugurated as the world’s first art biennial. Visitors who devote a whole week of their time will still only be able to take in a sliver of the art on display, whether it’s a...2024-07-2542 minHyperallergicHyperallergicShelley Niro's 500 Year ItchShelley 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 Hyperallergic podcast, she reflects on how witnessing him create these objects planted the seeds for her brilliant multidisciplinary art practice spanning film, sculpture, beading, and photography. She joined us in our Brooklyn studio for an interview, where she reflected on growing up in the Six Nations of the Grand River, the Native artists she discovered on her dentist’s wall but rarely encountered in a museum befor...2024-05-301h 00HyperallergicHyperallergicLee Quiñones: Graffiti and the GalleryAnyone 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 Junior High School, roaring next to metallic blue letters spelling the word “Lee.” In this episode of the Hyperallergic podcast, we speak with its creator, Lee Quiñones, whose paintings of dragons, lions, and Howard the Duck on over 120 MTA train cars were part of the movement that brought light and color to the otherwise dingy, dark, and drastically underfunded subway system. Quiñones’s paintings caught the attention of art co...2024-05-0357 minHyperallergicHyperallergicFrom Blog to BookSince 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 all things?Many of the authors who have passed through our virtual hallways have gone on to do incredible things, including publishing books on topics that they first wrote about or more fully developed through articles in Hyperallergic. In 2022, we held an event called “From Blog to Book” at Brooklyn’s pinkFrog cafe, where our Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian asked three of our writers to tell us about...2024-04-041h 07HyperallergicHyperallergicThomas Lanigan-Schmidt: The Story of One of the Few Artists at the Stonewall UprisingWe 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 Lannigan-Schmidt. His works, made from crinkly saran wrap and tin foil, emulate the gleam of precious metals and jewels in Catholic iconography. They reference his upbringing as a working class kid and altar boy in a Catholic community in Linden, New Jersey, where tin foil was an expensive luxury they could rarely afford. But they also hold memories of where he found himself as a t...2024-03-211h 30The Truth In This Art: Stories That MatterThe Truth In This Art: Stories That MatterExploring the Art World with Hrag Vartanian: Q&A with the Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder of HyperallergicWelcome to another insightful episode of "The Truth in This Art." Join our host, Rob Lee, as he converses with Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic, a forum for playful, serious, and radical perspectives on art and culture in the world today.In this engaging episode, we explore:Hrag's personal journey as an art critic, curator, and lecturer.The inception and evolution of Hyperallergic.Hrag's reflections on his artistic identity and his creative influences.The significance of diversity of opinion and truth in art and journalism.The intersection of art and activism.The impact of...2023-03-0748 minHyde or PracticeHyde or PracticeRe-release: Hyperallergic Founder and EIC Hrag Vartanian!One of our longer episodes, and every minute is FILLED TO THE BRIM!  Erika and Alexis talk to Hrag Vartanian, the founder and editor in chief of Hyperallergic. A continuation of our series on motivation, Hrag discusses journalism, the art world we need to be focusing on, why Hyperallergic exists, and who’s subsidizing who! We go through who got PPPs and Alexis’s Tumblr glory days. This is an instant classic. TUNE IN AND GAIN KNOWLEDGE! HRAG RECOMMENDS: Documentary: Manufacturing Consent (1992) Documentary: Camera Person (2016) LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Hrag Vartanian - @hragv, hyperallergic.com  Alexis...2022-05-311h 10Two Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and RebelTwo Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and RebelSO7 Episode 11 Reprise: Mothers - It’s ComplicatedIn honor of Mother's Day we are bringing back this classic from season 4. “Two of my heroes are mother and my grandmother…My mother taught me to be a woman. She was the strongest person I’ve ever met. And someday I’ll be the woman she wants me to be” - Tracy Hyter-Suffern It’s complicated. Mothers. They’re sometimes cast as heroes and role models, often as victims or villains. In almost 40 conversations with other old bitches, mothers emerge as essential to the fabric of so many parts of our histories, our present and our future...2022-05-0830 minHyperallergicHyperallergicThe Cartoonist the US Right-Wing Political Establishment Loves to HateIf you’ve been online, and especially on Twitter, then you probably know the name Eli Valley and his brushy drawings that use the grotesque and absurd to make larger points about life, culture, and politics. But it wasn’t until the Trump administration that the New York City-based cartoonist was propelled into the public spotlight. Valley was attacked by a wide range of politicians, particularly Republicans, including Meghan McCain, who called the comic he drew of her “one of the most anti-Semitic things I have even seen.” McCain is not Jewish, and Valley is, not to mention that his fath...2022-05-061h 13HyperallergicHyperallergicArtists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin Discuss Digital CombinesArtists Tali Hinkis and Daniel Temkin have been at the leading edge of digitally informed contemporary art that explores the boundaries of programming, digital aesthetics, and the handmade. Their work is certainly unique, but they also share some commonalities around media-based art, glitch, and how their work in the gallery and online is circulated and experienced. I invited them to join me for a conversation to hear the thoughts of two intelligent artists who are fully engaged with the new wave of thinking around digital practices in the arts. Hinkis and Temkin are both participating in various “Digital Combine” exhi...2022-04-291h 19HyperallergicHyperallergicTamara Lanier's Fight for the Photographs of Her Enslaved Ancestors at HarvardLast year, we published a dossier of statements by leading scholars supporting the fight of Tamara Lanier to reclaim the daguerreotypes of her ancestors from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. Lanier, who lives in Norwich, Connecticut, had long heard stories through her family about an ancestor named Papa Renty, a learned man from Africa who was enslaved and brought to the United States under inhumane conditions. Those stories about Renty were important to her family and to the memory of their heritage that they kept alive. Then one day, Lanier discovered that there were photographs of h...2022-04-2156 minOwed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the ConflictoriumOwed to a certain Emptiness : Infra-structuring the ConflictoriumIn conversation with Hrag VartanianThis conversation was recorded on 10th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Hrag Vartanian and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York. The editor-in-chief  and co-founder of Hyperallergic, Hrag Vartanian is an art critic, curator, artist, and lecturer on contemporary art with an expertise on the intersection of art and politics. To know more about the exhibition visit - https://veralistcenter.org/exhibitions/owed-to-a-certain-emptiness/ To know mor...2021-10-111h 14HyperallergicHyperallergicUnderstanding Why a Harvard Museum Will Return Standing Bear’s TomahawkSomething incredible happened a few months ago. After Oklahoma lawyer Brett Chapman (Pawnee) started tweeting about the tomahawk of Ponca Chief Standing Bear, which is currently in Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the revered object may actually be going home.His short messages asked why the tomahawk was in the care of that institution and not with one of the two federally recognized Ponca tribes. The questions raised eyebrows, and as Cassie Packard reported for Hyperallergic, the museum later posted a statement on its website explaining that the museum and th...2021-07-2123 minHyperallergicHyperallergicMoMA’s Leon Black Problem and Cuban Artists Under SiegeThis week’s headlines were dominated by news that the Museum of Modern Art will not remove billionaire Leon Black from their board. Hyperallergic’s Jasmine Weber and Valentina Di Liscia join me to talk about it along with PEN America’s new handbook for persecuted artists, Mexico’s request that Christie’s auction house halt its sale of pre-Hispanic objects, the return of looted artifacts by the Museum of the Bible to Iraq and Egypt, and how some of the important quilters of Gee’s Bend now have Etsy shops.The music for this episode is Darkstar’s “...2021-02-0826 minHyde or PracticeHyde or PracticeSeason 3 Episode 1: Art World Conference Programme Director Heather Bhandari Interview!To start of Season 3 with a bang we talk with Heather Bhandari - author of Art Work: Everything You Need To Know To Pursue Your Art Career*, an adjunct lecturer at Brown, a trained artist, worked at galleries, consulted for non-profits and now is Program Director at Art World Conference.  Does that feel like too many things for one person to do? We agreed, but we got the low down and she IS WHO SHE SAYS SHE IS! Her wealth of experience is only matched by her willingness to share her knowledge and it is all incredibly generous. We a...2020-11-0645 minHyde or PracticeHyde or PracticeEpisode 13: Founder/EIC of Hyperallergic, Hrag Vartanian Interview!Welcome to Episode 13! Erika and Alexis talk to Hrag Vartanian, the founder and editor in chief of Hyperallergic. A continuation of our series on motivation, Hrag discusses journalism, the art world we need to be focusing on, why Hyperallergic exists, and who’s subsidizing who! We go through who got PPPs and Alexis’s Tumblr glory days. This is an instant classic. TUNE IN AND GAIN KNOWLEDGE! HRAG RECOMMENDS: Documentary: Manufacturing Consent (1992) Documentary: Camera Person (2016) LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Hrag Vartanian - @hragv, hyperallergic.com  Alexis Hyde - @hydeordie, alexishyde.com   Dr. Erika Wong; - @topractiseapractice, www.practise-practice.com  S...2020-07-241h 10Fresh Art InternationalFresh Art InternationalMaking Art, Creating CultureConversations with contributors to the book: Artist as Culture Producer Today’s conversations expand on the definition of the word ‘artist.’’ During Miami Art Week, artist and educator Sharon Louden, with her frequent collaborator Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic, introduce the second book in Louden’s trilogy dedicated to Living and Sustaining a Creative Life. Inside New York’s Strand Bookstore, we meet a few of the artists who contributed essays to The Artist as Culture Producer. In their first-hand stories, they share the personal and professional value of creativity. We recorded this episode inside the tent of Untitled art fair during Miami Art We...2019-09-2432 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Art InternationalMaking Art, Creating CultureConversations with contributors to the book: Artist as Culture Producer  Today’s conversations expand on the definition of the word ‘artist.’’ During Miami Art Week, artist and educator Sharon Louden, with her frequent collaborator Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic, introduce the second book in Louden’s trilogy dedicated to Living and Sustaining a Creative Life. Inside New York’s Strand Bookstore, we meet a few of the artists who contributed essays to The Artist as Culture Producer. In their first-hand stories, they share the personal and professional value of creativity.  We recorded this episode inside the tent of Untitled ar...2019-09-2332 minThe East is a PodcastThe East is a PodcastArt and the 1% w/Hrag VartanianHrag Vartanian is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic    An appeal Please consider supporting the show. I can't do this for much longer unless I can at least hit my goal of $1500 a month. (That literally would give me enough for rent + $300). Right now, I make less than a third of that and it's unsustainable. I also have a Gofundme You can also donate directly with Venmo or Paypal.  Links on the homepage, eastpodcast.com     2019-09-0837 minHyperallergicHyperallergicThe Los Angeles Art Landscape, Through the Lens of Our WritersLast year, editor Elisa Wouk Almino relocated from Hyperallergic’s New York-based office to Los Angeles to help expand coverage along the West Coast. In this podcast, she chats with Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian about her initial impressions of the city, where artists have been increasingly flocking to. We then speak with Catherine G. Wagley, a veteran Los Angeles art critic and reporter who has contributed nuanced op-eds and reported stories to the site. She shares her thoughts on why Los Angeles is such an appealing city for artists and how it differentiates itself from other major centers li...2019-05-3133 minTwo Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and RebelTwo Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and RebelS04 Episode 10: Mother’s More Than a Day“Two of my heroes are mother and my grandmother…My mother taught me to be a woman. She was the strongest person I’ve ever met. And someday I’ll be the woman she wants me to be” - Tracy Hyter-Suffern It’s complicated. Mothers. They’re sometimes cast as heroes and role models, often as victims or villains. In almost 40 conversations with other old bitches, mothers emerge as essential to the fabric of so many parts of our histories, our present and our futures. Drawing from those conversations, we’ve pulled together a few clips to share with you...2019-05-1030 minTwo Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and RebelTwo Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and RebelSO4 Episode 09: Hrag Vartanian - Serious, Playful and Radical“I didn't want to brag but I did want to impress on you that I'm probably the biggest bitch you've ever encountered!” Who else but Hrag Vartanian could help us to break through another boundary? Our guest for this episode of TOB is our first self-identified, ‘biggest bitch’ you’ve ever encountered’ man. We spent nearly two thought-provoking, hilarity-inducing and adoration-filled hours with the 45-year old Hrag. His identities are multitudinous, ranging from writer, curator, critic, artist, culture vulture, Syrian-Armenian-Canadian and – highly treasured – New Yorker. His accomplishments are also numerous, as the co-creator (with his husband) and editor –in-chief...2019-04-1954 minExplain MeExplain MeThe Stink of Met Admission Hikes EnduresBack in January, William Powhida and I recorded an episode of Explain Me on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new admission policy. Earlier that month, the museum known for housing some of the world's greatest treasures announced its admission price would no longer remain "pay-as-you-wish". As of March 1st, their suggested admission, $25 will become mandatory for anyone living outside of New York State. Children under 12 get in for free. Given that there's less than two weeks until this policy change goes into affect, we thought it might be a good time to release our discussion and revisit the de...2018-02-2148 minHyperallergicHyperallergicFord Foundation President Darren Walker on the Power of Art, Inequality, and DetroitHyperallergic's editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian talks to Ford Foundation President Darren Walker about the public's interest in scrutinizing institutional authority, Walker's own love of art, and the renovations at the Foundation's building, and also discussed Agnes Gund's new Art for Justice fund, the role of the arts for marginalized communities, and the importance of public education. The music featured in this episode was “Give it Your Choir” by Mark Pritchard from Warp Records. You can hear more from his latest release “Under the Sun” at http://markprtchrd.com and find more great music from Warp Records at http://w...2017-11-0935 minTyler School of Art\'s Life After Tyler podcastsTyler School of Art's Life After Tyler podcasts013: Living and Sustaining a Creative LifeTyler Professor Gerard Brown leads a panel discussion with Sharon Louden, Hrag Vartanian, and Deana Haggag covering  a range of topics, including: Identifying and communicating assets and skills common to the artists studio practice that are useful to mean of creating value for industrial partners. These assets include, among others, the capacity to utilize failure productively, and cultural reciprocity, an acute awareness of the use of cultural exchange for growth. The inherently collaborative nature of artistic disciplines in contrast to myths of individual, autonomous creative work. The ways in which artists, who routinely produce something from nothing, can contribute to th...2017-05-1900 minThe Review PanelThe Review PanelThe Review Panel #85 - Jessica Bell Brown, Walter Robinson and Hrag VartanianMay 5th 2017, with Jessica Bell Brown, Walter Robinson and Hrag Vartanian, joined by moderator David Cohen.2017-05-152h 01Fresh Art InternationalFresh Art InternationalSharon Louden on The Artist as Culture ProducerSharon Louden artist and educator and Hrag Vartanian, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online art publication Hyperallergic, talk about Louden's newest book project: The Artist as Culture Producer. Forty visual artists contributed essays to the four hundred page publication. These individuals model some of the ways that culture makers of the 21st century are enriching creative economies around the world. Their first-hand stories may inspire more of us to take on new roles in the public realm, to engage more deeply in our communities.2017-02-2808 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Art InternationalSharon Louden on The Artist as Culture ProducerSharon Louden artist and educator and Hrag Vartanian, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online art publication Hyperallergic, talk about Louden's newest book project: The Artist as Culture Producer. Forty visual artists contributed essays to the four hundred page publication. These individuals model some of the ways that culture makers of the 21st century are enriching creative economies around the world. Their first-hand stories may inspire more of us to take on new roles in the public realm, to engage more deeply in our communities. Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan 2017-02-2808 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Art InternationalLive from Untitled Art Fair - Sharon Louden and Hrag VartanianLive from Untitled Art Fair - Sharon Louden and Hrag Vartanian by Cathy Byrd2016-12-2429 minHyperallergicHyperallergicMarilyn Minter and Xaviera Simmons Talk Art, Sex, and American DemocracyArtists Marilyn Minter and Xaviera Simmons both have solo shows up in New York this month. We invited them to chat with Hyperallergic's editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian about sex, art, gender inequality, Planned Parenthood, and the election.2016-12-2221 minHyperallergicHyperallergicA Conversation with Mega-collector Don RubellHyperallergic's Editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian speaks to mega-collector Don Rubell of the Rubell Family Collection about decades of collecting and establishing one of the biggest collections of contemporary art in the world.2016-12-0933 minHyperallergicHyperallergicWomen of Abstract ExpressionismWhy were women excluded from the art movement that has come to represent some of the best of 20th century American art? The answer may be rather complicated and Hyperallergic’s editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian interviews “Women Of Abstract Expressionism” exhibition curator Gwen Chanzit, Abstract Expressionism artist Judith Godwin, feminist art historian Linda Nochlin, and critic/curator Karen Wilkin to understand the issue.2016-07-2524 minHyperallergicHyperallergicMarrakech Biennial 6Our inaugural podcast sends our editor-in-chief Hrag Vartanian to Morocco to visit the 6th Marrakech Biennial curated by Reem Fadda. There are interviews with the curator and artists Haig Aivazian (Lebanon) and Dineo Seshee Bopape (South Africa), as well as discussions of Superflex’s “Kwassa Kwassa” and Khaled Malas’ "Windmill in Eastern Ghouta (Syria).”2016-05-0416 minDr. Lisa Gives a Sh*tDr. Lisa Gives a Sh*tHrag Vartanian, Christopher Stout, and Anthony Rosado talk gentrification Pt. 2Part group therapy, part a discussion about art, artist and gentrification, Dr. Lisa was thrilled that Hrag requested this follow up session so the whole group could go deeper. And thanks for the cupcakes Christopher!2015-08-031h 00Dr. Lisa Gives a Sh*tDr. Lisa Gives a Sh*tDr. Lisa Gives A Sh*t_Episode 1508_Part1_Hrag Vartanian, Christopher Stout, and Anthony Rosado talk gentrification.Dr. Lisa talks gentrification, artist, the concept of colonialism and finding out if everyone's comfortable with Hrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic, Christopher Stout of Bushwick Art Crit Group and gentrification activist, Anthony Rosado.2015-08-0359 minDr. Lisa Gives a Sh*tDr. Lisa Gives a Sh*tHrag Vartanian, Christopher Stout, and Anthony Rosado talk gentrification Pt. 1Dr. Lisa talks gentrification, artist, the concept of colonialism and finding out if everyone's comfortable with Hrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic, Christopher Stout of Bushwick Art Crit Group and gentrification activist, Anthony Rosado.2015-08-031h 00Dr. Lisa Gives a Sh*tDr. Lisa Gives a Sh*tDr. Lisa Gives A Sh*t_Episode 1508_Part1_Hrag Vartanian, Christopher Stout, and Anthony Rosado talk gentrification.Dr. Lisa talks gentrification, artist, the concept of colonialism and finding out if everyone's comfortable with Hrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic, Christopher Stout of Bushwick Art Crit Group and gentrification activist, Anthony Rosado.2015-08-0259 minThe Review PanelThe Review PanelThe Review Panel #63 - Christina Kee, Hrang Vartanian and Christian Viveros-FauneJanuary 24, 2014 at the National Academy Museum, moderator David Cohen’s guests were Hrag Vartanian, co-founder and editor of the blogzine, Hyperallergic; Christina Kee, a regular contributor at artcritical; and Village Voice critic Christian Viveros-Faune. The shows discussed were Allison Schulnik: Eager at ZieherSmith, Thomas Bangsted at Marc Straus, Wade Guyton at Petzel and Lori Ellison at McKenzie Fine Art. More at: http://www.artcritical.com/2014/02/08/january-2014/2015-04-201h 40Artelligence PodcastArtelligence PodcastHrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic, James Tarmy of Bloomberg and Brian Boucher of ArtnetHrag Vartanian of Hyperallergic describes his trip to LA for a series of art fairs including the LA Art Book Fair and ArtLA Contemporary; James Tarmy of Bloomberg and Brian Boucher from Artnet News talk about the New York Old Master sales.2015-02-0432 minBad at SportsBad at SportsBad at Sports Episode 363: Hrag Vartanian & HyperallergicThis week: Hyperallergic founder Hrag Vartanian live from NADA. Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful and radical thinking about art in the world today. Created by husband-and-husband team, Veken Gueyikian and Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic officially launched on October 14, 2009. It combines the best of art blog and magazine culture by focusing on publishing quality and engaging writing and images from informed and provocative perspectives. The site was the winner of Best Art Blog at the 2011 Art & Reality Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2011 alone, Hyperallergic was featured on major med...2012-08-131h 03