''Hyperallergic'' is an
online arts magazine, based in
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
, New York. Founded by the art critic
Hrag Vartanian and his husband Veken Gueyikian in October 2009, the site describes itself as a "forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking".
Publisher
''Hyperallergic'' is published by Veken Gueyikian.
Reception
Hyperallergic LABS, its
Tumblr
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blog, was named by ''
Time
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'' magazine as one of the "30 Tumblrs to Follow in 2013". ''
The New Yorker
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'' critic
Peter Schjeldahl has described the site as "infectiously ill-tempered".
Holland Cotter
Holland Cotter is an art critic with ''The New York Times''. In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Life and work
Cotter was born in Connecticut and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned his A.B. from Harvard College in 1970, w ...
of the ''
New York Times
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'' has also praised the site, crediting it with a revival in popular
art criticism
Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual art. Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty. A goal of art criticism is the pursuit of a rational basis for art appreciation but it is que ...
. The publication was cited by the
TED blog as one of "100 Websites You Should Know and Use" in 2007. In 2018, ''
Nieman Reports
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'' published an article outlining how ''Hyperallergic'' came to rival print art journalism, in which Sarah Douglas, the
ARTnews editor in chief, said that ''Hyperallergic'' had reinvigorated art criticism.
[Mary Louise Schumacher]
"Hyperallergic, at Age 9, Rivals the Arts Journalism of Legacy Media: The online outline was ranked highly in a survey of 300 arts journalists"
''Nieman Reports
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is the primary journalism institution at Harvard. It was founded in February 1938 as the result of a $1.4 million bequest by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow of Lucius W. Nieman, founder of ...
'', May 24, 2018
Staff
*Co-Editor-in-chief & co-founder: Hrag Vartanian
*Co-Editor-in-chief: Valentina Di Liscia
*News editor: Hakim Bishara
*Editor: Natalie Haddad
*Editor: Dan Schindel
*Editor:
Albert Mobilio
Albert Mobilio is an American poet and critic. He teaches at Eugene Lang College, the liberal arts college of The New School university. His work appears in ''Bomb'', '' Salon'', '' Postmodern Culture'', '' Harper's''.
He is co-editor of ''Bookfo ...
*Editor: Thomas Micchelli
*Editor:
John Yau
*Poetry editor: Wendy Xu
*Editorial coordinator: Lakshmi Rivera Amin
*Staff Writer: Jasmine Liu
*Staff Writer: Elaine Velie
*Marketing Manager: Alexandra Bowditch
*Marketing Coordinator: Shari Flores
*Ad Ops Coordinator: Kristina Chang
Contributing writers
*Dorian Batycka
*Monica Castillo
*Alexander Cavaluzzo
*Bedatri D. Choudhury
*
Alicia Eler
*Lucas Fagen
*Daniel Gerwin
*Edward M. Gomez
*Alissa Guzman
*Anthony Hawley
*Daniel Larkin
*Megan N. Liberty
*Colony Little
*Kirsten O'Regan
*Elisa Wouk Almino
*Ellie Duke
*
Joseph Nechvatal
*Cassie Packard
*Michael Press
*Lauren Purje
*Laura Raicovich
*Renée Reizman
*Christine Ro
*Seph Rodney
*
Barry Schwabsky
*John Seed
*Mark Sheerin
*Jack Sjogren
*
Melissa Stern
*Matt Stromberg
*Ben Valentine
*Jasmine Weber
References
External links
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Visual arts magazines published in the United States
Online magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 2009
Internet properties established in 2009
Magazines published in New York City
2009 establishments in New York City