
Hrag Vartanian
Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder at Hyperallergic
Host at Hyperallergic Podcast
Art Critic Futurist 🧬 EIC, @Hyperallergic / I tweet politics & culture because art doesn't exist in a vacuum. 🦋 Find me at Hrag dot bsky dot social
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1 week ago |
hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian
PHILADELPHIA — In a bucolic corner of the Schuylkill River in southwest Philadelphia sits the oldest continuously operating botanical garden in North America. Bartram’s Garden, named after its founder, botanist John Bartram (1699–1777), is the site of many continental firsts, including being home to the oldest ginkgo tree in North America. But its history, as part of the larger project of the colonization of the Americas, is never far from the surface.
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4 weeks ago |
hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian
‣ Plagiarizing independent media is part of corporate media’s business model. Jacob Weindling, writing for Splinter, explains:Plagiarism is shockingly common in mainstream media, especially at the New York Times. In 2019 Vice wrote a whole article just about the New York Times taking other people’s reporting, making it their own and then not linking to the original report, and even that extensive article wasn’t uncovering a new dynamic.
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1 month ago |
hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian
MONTCLAIR, New Jersey — A famous line from Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel Things Fall Apart is, “If you don’t like my story, write your own.” That sentiment is particularly poignant for artist Nanette Carter, who used the book’s title for one of her earliest works, which she created while attending graduate school at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. The piece is currently on display in her retrospective at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey.
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1 month ago |
hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Hakim Bishara |Valentina Di Liscia |Natalie Haddad |Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lisa Zhang | +4 more
Flipping through a volume with a bit of sand in its spine, basking in sun, and in no rush — this is how we were meant to read art books. With summer around the corner and visions of balmy parks swimming in our heads, we decided to compile a non-exhaustive list of summer art reads. Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad takes a look at a new biography of Yoko Ono, while Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian uncovers nuggets of wisdom in a reissue of Jack Whitten’s studio notebook.
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1 month ago |
hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian |Natalie Haddad |Faye Hirsch |Julia Curl
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