Art
The Camera as an Afterthought: Defining Post-Photography
Photography as medium is not dead, but you can argue it is in a contemporary state of flux.
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
An Excursion to the Past as You've Never Imagined It
With a mission to show that the past wasn't always as we now envision it to be, Chris Wild's Retronaut has been compiling curiosities of vintage photography and other archives online.
Books
Pensive Portraits Behind the Office Doors of 50 Therapists
"In contrast to other medical specialists' offices with their practical equipment of examining tables and rolling tools, the therapist's work space has few obvious demands beyond seating for clinician and patient," psychiatrist and photographer Sebastian Zimmermann writes in an introduction to Fifty
Art
Saving the Memory of Hong Kong's Neon Before It Goes Dark
Glass tubes twisted into typography and pictorial designs have hummed on the streets of Hong Kong since the 1950s.
Art
David Lynch Returns to His Roots in Philadelphia's Urban Decay
PHILADELPHIA — Before summoning unsettling images of horror out of the American everyday on film, David Lynch was a visual art student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Art
From Amazon Warrior to Angel of Mercy: The Many Faces of the Nurse
Whether angel on the battlefield or vixen of the hospital ward, the depiction of the nurse has changed over time to reflect different perceptions on gender, health, and medicine.
Books
New Art Book Plays with Scale
Big Art/Small Art by Tristan Manco, out later this month from Thames & Hudson, is an attempt to see what size means to art in the 21st century.
Art
A Concussive Experiment in Metal Noise
Jamie Stewart, of the band Xiu Xiu, describes how he and artist Danh Vō started to collaborate as "amorphous," with Vō having incorporated some of Stewart's lyrics from "Fabulous Muscles" into his visual art.
Art
A Coven of Art Convenes to Examine the Face of the Witch
Whether you imagine a witch as a monstrous Macbeth conjuror, or a more innocuous pointy-hatted character riding a broomstick, it's likely the visuals of art have something to do with it.
Art
A New Documentary for the Forger Who Infiltrated America's Art Museums
For three decades, Mark Landis quietly infiltrated art museums across the United States with donated forgeries, works he carefully copied himself from the whole of art history.
Performance
Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet Salvage Songs from Hurricane Sandy
Laurie Anderson was already working on a cycle of songs with Kronos Quartet when on October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy rose the Hudson River into her West Village home.
Art
Animating the Battles and Mythology of Greek Vases
Greek vases have some of the most lively of ancient art, and a duo called Panoply has been turning these vases into animations.