Hrag Vartanian

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. In Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Lord Henry, upon meeting the novel’s namesake character, exclaims, “You are too charming to go in for philanthropy, Mr. Gray — far too charming.” That statement, with which Lord Henry flatters Mr. Gray, denotes a toxic relationship between charity and charm.

2 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. At the core of Aaron Gilbert’s painted imagery are figures that appear to resign themselves to the branded hellscapes of lives in decay. Even when he shifts his view to interiors, figures rarely emote, and appear to be attempting to mentally escape from the confines of their allotted space.

3 weeks ago | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. In an interview on the Joe Rogan podcast, Met Gala co-chair Anna Wintour announced “Fasc-isms” as the theme for this year’s highly anticipated event.

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Hrag Vartanian |Lisa Zhang |Alexandra Thomas |Jasmine Weber

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. This is a week of big statements by artists and expanded possibilities by curators and gallerists, past and present. If you haven’t already made the trip to Pioneer Works in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood to see American Artist’s exploration of author Octavia E. Butler, we highly recommend it.

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Hrag Vartanian

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Nick Cave has long been a flag-bearer of maximalism even as the art world tended toward minimalism.