Allison C. Meier is a freelance and fiction writer based in Brooklyn. Originally from Oklahoma, she has been covering contemporary visual art for print and online media since 2006. You can read about her New York and world travel adventures on her website.
Some ideas are so simple it’s kind of crazy they haven’t been thought of before, especially given the constant exhaustion of creativity in advertising. But these billboards from IBM — which act as ramps, benches, or rain shelters — represent a particular triumph of form and function.
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Using just acrylic paint and resin, Singaporean artist Keng Lye shapes three dimensional depictions of animals that seem suddenly frozen in time.
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The technique of etching has given many a brooding artist a shadowy medium for their art, and while the time-consuming mode of creation has fallen out of mainstream popularity, Moroccan artist Érik Desmazières continues to use etching almost exquisitely in his work.
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The massive Domino Sugar Factory that faces the East River with its iconic yellow sign is expected to soon be dwarfed by towering skyscrapers. However, there are some supporters who are rallying to get public support to turn the old factory into a cultural center.
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With the arrival of accessible photography came a developed culture of portraiture for not just the living, but the dead. Up until the 1830s with the creation of the daguerrotype, creating an image for remembrance of your loved ones was reserved for the rich, who could commission paintings. Yet with photography came a way to preserve a family member’s image before they disappeared into the earth.
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How shapes self-assemble in nature is a mystery of science yet to be unraveled, but sculpting a miniature flower garden may shed some light on self-assembly and spur innovation in microscopic engineering. The tiny flowers in these images are 50 micrometers large, basically smaller than the width of a human hair, and were all “grown” in a beaker.
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The Heidelberg Project was started as a way to transform the depressing decay of an east Detroit neighborhood, but it has since experienced its own set of devastations. In both 1991 and 1999, parts of it were demolished, and just this past month there was a fire that wrecked its oldest house. Now the Heidelberg Project is working to turn the charred remains of that structure into a new installation, re-imagining it for a second time from dilapidation.
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All work and no play infuses graphic design with a corporate dullness, but that was never the case with Alan Fletcher.
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For a borough with a dense and diverse history, Brooklyn doesn’t have much in the way of public historic recognition. Artist Anna Robinson-Sweet’s current installation project adds historic plaques around the borough, to highlight what has been forgotten.
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There aren’t as many outskirts to Bushwick Open Studios as there once were. The 2013 edition was brimming even at the very edges of designated “Bushwick,” which really oozes over into the adjacent East Williamsburg and Ridgewood, though it seems steadfast in not stepping over the Broadway line to Bed-Stuy. It was in this area just north of the Broadway border that I set out to explore this past weekend, and where even if it’s only getting more developed, it’s still anchored by some more offbeat places to see and create art. A 48-foot tractor trailer, for one.
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White Womens’ Bodies as Selfie-Objectified Tools of Dissent
Why Is Playboy Erecting a Neon Bunny in Marfa, Texas?
How to Destroy a James Turrell
Tips for Artists Who Want to Sell, or Channeling Baldessari in Bushwick
Three Takes on the Art Basel "Rioters"
Some Excuses Why an Artist Is Not Making Art
David Byrne's Bad Advice to Columbia's Visual Arts MFA Grads
Winning "Work of Art," 1.5 Years Later
An Evolving Art Oasis on the Great Plains
Thomas Nozkowski and Philip Guston Talk to Each Other Without Knowing It
