News
American Museum of Natural History to Add 218,000-Square-Foot Science Center
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York is planning to add a $325 million, 218,000-square-foot science center, the New York Times reported.
Allison Meier
Books
Photographers Expose Their Processes
Some photographers take relentless notes in pocket journals, others share their discoveries in real time on Instagram. The two methods are different approaches to the contemporary photographic process, which is the subject of a new book, Photographers' Sketchbooks, by Stephen McLaren and Bryan Formh
Art
Sandy-Ravaged Rockaways Bungalow Reborn as an Artist Residency
Two years on, the effect of Hurricane Sandy is still visible in the Rockaways's vacant bungalows. Artist Robyn Renee Hasty is imagining one of these storm-wrecked homes as a creative community space, one that could simultaneously be a model of rebuilding with low-impact design.
Art
Portraits from Ellis Island's Abandoned Immigrant Hospital
The Ellis Island hospital, which treated 1.2 million immigrant patients between 1901 and its abandonment in 1954, is once again open to the public. In conjunction with the reopening, the French street artist JR has installed paste ups of archival photographs throughout the building that give a histo
Art
A Documentary Traces the History of Video Game Graphics
"Game visuals are the most obvious indicator of their technology," Stuart Brown says in his Pixel Pioneers short documentary series on the graphic history of video games. Last month he released the last of the five-part series on YouTube, concluding with contemporary hyperrealistic graphics that fee
Art
In One of William Blake's Final Works, the Engraved Trials of an Unfortunate Soul
One of the last series William Blake completed was on the woes of Job, that biblical figure tormented through a bet between God and Satan that his faith was tenuous
Books
Inflatable Corsets, Ventilated Top Hats, and Other Failed Victorian Inventions
Many great inventions came out of the Victorian era, from the photograph to the electric lightbulb. The elastic opera hat and the anti-cholera belt, however, are not among their illustrious numbers.
News
The World's Oldest Art May Be This 430,000-Year-Old Zigzag on a Shell
The history of artistic expression got stretched back a few hundred thousand years this week with the identification of an engraved shell believed to have been carved by Homo erectus. That early human ancestor could rattle the long-held belief that the use of deliberate visual expression is specific
Art
Lawsuit Decries Limited Access to New York's Publicly Funded Mass Grave
Supported by tax payers on a city-owned island, New York City's potter's field is one of the country's most inaccessible publicly funded spaces.
News
Estonian Saunas and Mongolian Knuckle-Bone Shooting Merit Preservation, UNESCO Says
The smoke sauna tradition of Võromaa, Estonia, the cultivation and culture of the argan tree in Morocco, and Askiya dueling debate of Uzbekistan are all now officially recognized as unique parts of the world's heritage. The traditions are among those UNESCO added to its Intangible Cultural Heritage
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News
Landmarks Commission May Scrap Almost 100 NYC Sites from Consideration [UPDATED]
At its December 9 public meeting, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission plans to scrap 96 buildings and locations from its landmark status consideration.
Performance
A Live Documentary Measures Humanity by Its Extremes
In his newest live documentary, The Measure of All Things, filmmaker Sam Green ponders why we're obsessed with the extremes of accomplishment, no matter how obscure or mundane they actually are.