Art
5 Trendsetting Video Games from IndieCade East
This past weekend, the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens hosted Indiecade East 2015 for its third year of independent games, talks, and community networking.
Allison Meier
Allison C. Meier is a former staff writer for Hyperallergic. Originally from Oklahoma, she has been covering visual culture and overlooked history for print and online media since 2006. She moonlights as a cemetery tour guide.
Art
Peter Zumthor's Minimalist Museum for Zinc Mining Takes Shape in Norway
Set to open in the summer of 2016, a sleek museum designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for a Norwegian zinc mine has been over a decade in the making, although parts of the attraction are already in place.
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A Digital Waterfall That Illuminates the Threat of Air Pollution
Artist Andrea Polli's "Particle Falls" is a waterfall of light that changes colors from blue to flaming reds and yellows based on real time air quality data.
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Where the Library Gets Its Books
Up on a hill in a guarded compound, not far from where Harvard University keeps its primate labs, a 127,000-square-foot structure holds the heart of the institution's library.
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Five Musical Instruments of the Future
Instruments that translate electronic music into physical actions and acoustic instruments that sound as space-age as any synthesizer are just some of the 20 semi-finalists in the 2015 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.
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A Field Guide to the Invisible Internet Infrastructure of NYC
The internet can seem ubiquitous and invisible at once, but it relies on an elaborate infrastructure that's sometimes buried just below our feet.
Books
A Portal to Unite the Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books Collection
This month the Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books Collection launched an online platform that unifies artists' books from across several Smithsonian collections.
Art
Wondrous Museum Relics Go Online for the 200th Anniversary of Waterloo
Museums around Europe have rallied a troop of artifacts to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo's 200th anniversary.
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A Rare Night of Reversing the Tenement Museum's No Photography Rule
Photography is strictly prohibited in the apartments of the Tenement Museum, where 19th- to early 20th-century immigrant living is recreated amid unrestored spaces.
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Over 600 Rare US Space Photographs Go on View in London
Over 600 vintage space photographs from NASA missions, many not seen by the public before, are on view in London until their auction at the end of the month.
Art
A Virtual Reality Museum for Stolen and Looted Art
The virtual reality technology of Oculus Rift is being used to collect the digital remains of lost art.
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Data-Driven Music for the Disharmony of New York's Income Inequality
As the 2 train travels from Brooklyn through Manhattan up to the Bronx, it journeys along 49 stations of neighborhoods as varied as Flatbush, the Financial District, and Wakefield.