In Brief
Run from Ghosts in Real Cemeteries with Google Maps Pac-Man
Today is a glorious one for your idle time, as Google Maps made a function available to turn any street view into a game of Pac-Man.
Allison Meier
Art
An Online Sanctuary for 30 Endangered Species
Designer Bryan James was inspired to create the online project "In Pieces" as a "reminder of the beauty we are on the verge of losing as every moment passes."
Art
New Permanent Installation Blooms at the Rijksmuseum
When the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam debuted its renovated Philips Wing in November, curious modern flora bloomed over its 18th-century staircase.
Art
Artist Stan Douglas Resurrects Postwar Vancouver in an Interactive App
Ghosts hovering around an abandoned hotel and the streets of a neighborhood where the fences lean and paint crackles on the walls — these are your messengers to the past in Circa 1948.
Art
Sum of the Arts
Age of the mummified monk long forgotten inside a 1,000-year-old gilded statue, which Chinese villagers now want restituted from a Dutch private collector = 30–40
Art
Painting with Toxic Sludge
To experiment with an alternative method for remediation, a scientist and an artist are collaborating on turning the acid runoff from Ohio's abandoned coal mines into pigments.
Art
Landmark African Art Exhibit Is Reassembled, but Mystery of Its Origin Remains
When a dozen weather-worn wood sculptures from southeastern Nigeria debuted in a Paris gallery in 1974, they were radically different from any African art that had been exhibited in the West.
Art
A Meditative Hunting Trip in an Interactive Story
Blood-soaked snow and the waxy green of conifers color the pensive landscape of The Last Hunt, an interactive story produced by the Digital Studio at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Art
Artists Visit a Spiritual Medium and Make Work About It
Eight artists spent time in psychic sessions with a medium before evoking their experiences in paintings dripping with texture, a video of a morphing eye, and a curious dollhouse.
News
30,000 NYPD Crime Photographs Will Go Online
From contorted corpses splayed on the sidewalk to errant streetcars lodged in storefronts, the New York Police Department has photographed crime scenes almost since the technology was available.
In Brief
Scientists Ask Natural History Museums to Cut Ties with David Koch
In an open letter posted today, 39 scientists call for natural history and science museums to sever connections with climate change deniers.
Art
An Exhibition of 100 Masks Shows Humanity's Enduring Thirst for Transformation
Around 100 masks of every contorted grimace imaginable, both human and animalistic, are assembled on the top floor of the Rubin Museum of Art for the new exhibition Becoming Another: The Power of Masks.