Art
How a Turn-of-the-Century Painter Influenced Military Camouflage
The newest exhibition at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York examines the influence of nature on military camouflage.
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.
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Early High-Speed Photographs Offer Incredible Details of Motion
Back in the 1930s, an electrical engineer from Nebraska, working at MIT, developed the first "strobe" flash for photography, changing the way motion is documented.
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Humanizing a Historic Brain Collection
A curious thing about medical collections is how dehumanizing they can be.
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Street Murals Designed to Reduce Pedestrian Deaths
Drivers need to slow down. Traffic deaths are a serious problem across the United States, with pedestrian fatalities increasing in past years. One effort to keep eyes on the road is the use of colorful street art — painted right on the streets.
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Drugs, Guns, Photographs: Taking Shots with William S. Burroughs
Writer William S. Burroughs took thousands of photographs from the 1950s to 1970s, but it's likely you've not seen many as even he didn't treat them like an art, but a mode of disrupting time.
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Visualizing Disease: A Survey of Public Health Posters
Striking visuals have long been essential to disease awareness, using art to convey the invisible menace of a microscopic virus and its destructive symptoms.
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What Does Color Smell Like?
That color and smell have a sensory connection is long-established, but there's debate about whether associating the smell of strawberries with red or smoke with black is something structured in our brains, based in language, or resulting from experience.
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An International Stilt-Dancing Collaboration Stands Tall
Laura Anderson Barbata started her international stilt-dancing collaborations in 2001 in Trinidad and Tobago, and since then has forged links between communities in the United States and Mexico. A traveling exhibition focused on the precarious performance practice opened earlier this month at BRIC H
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The Library That Kept Darwin Company for Five Years, Reconstructed
For the five years Charles Darwin spent sailing on the HMS Beagle the budding naturalist had around 404 books for company. After the ship returned to England on October 2, 1836, the books were dispersed, only now reassembled in a digital form.
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What Did Disability Look Like in the 19th Century?
Clubs for ugly people, ear trumpets designed for mourners, mesmerism as a cure — disability in the 19th century reflected all of the Victorian era's oddities and societal changes. Nineteenth-Century Disability: Cultures & Contexts is a digital research archive of text and images on this more overloo
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Photographs of the Ecological Healing of WWII Bomb Scars
Almost masked in nature's regrowth are craters from World War II in Germany, pocking the ground as reminders of violence that erupted in the landscape. Photographer Henning Rogge set out to discover as many as he could through aerial maps and the exploration of old battlegrounds.