Art
Darkroom Developer Trays as Portraits of the Artists
Disposable and deteriorated, the developer trays used by photographers are usually discarded.
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
Sculptural Sorcery: Ian Pedigo's Assemblages of the Natural and Manufactured
Assembling pieces of the natural and manufactured worlds, Ian Pedigo constructs sculptural balances of disparate materials. Some of his newest creations are on view in his solo show Cosmopolitan Sleep Positions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery on the Lower East Side.
Art
Studio of Composer Charles Ives Preserved in Manhattan
Object by object, some 3,000 artifacts from the studio of composer Charles Ives have been reconstructed at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Washington Heights. The replica of the studio he used in the final 40 years of his life even has a light box mimicking the Redding, Connecticut, view
Art
Bloodletting, Balance, and Buddhism at the Rubin Museum
What's your mental disposition? In what type of climate do you feel uncomfortable? What does your tongue look like? What do you dream about and what colors are predominant in those dreams?
Art
A Rap Epic for the Enigmatic Toynbee Tiles
Tiles embedded in busy intersections around North and South America have been appearing for two decades. No one knows who their creator is, but the Toynbee tiles, as they're called, have been the subject of a 2011 documentary and extensive archiving and mapping of their locations. Now the cryptic ph
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Three Decades of Anti-Apartheid Activism Now Available Online
Three decades of activist material from what is one of Great Britain's most intensive international grassroots political organizations is now online.
News
Art Movements
New secretary for the Smithsonian, allegations against Terry Richardson, Instagram sales, graffiti at the Great Wall of China, and more from the week in art news.
Art
Fatman, Cat-Man, and More Public Domain Comic Heroes You've Never Heard of, Man
The Golden and then Silver Age of comics that stretched from the 1930s to early 1950s left a lot of unloved heroes in its wake. Forgotten is Fatman the Human Flying Saucer — "the only comic hero with 3 identities" — who could transform his tubby self into a spaceship, and Black Fury the Wonder Horse
Books
Pretty in Ink: Women Cartoonists in the History of Comics
Women have been involved in cartoons and comics from their beginning, although much of their work has languished in the greater story of graphic narratives. And it's not for the reasons you might think.
Art
The History of Space Travel in 10 Objects
As our shuttles have gone into retirement and we look to the future of what space travel will mean for human exploration, there are plenty of artifacts left behind with which to examine the successes and failures of our journeying into beyond our atmosphere.
Performance
Trading Stage for Warehouse, a New Organization Brings Opera to Brooklyn
The L train was out of order and the night was freezing, but that didn't stop a crowd from packing into a Bushwick warehouse earlier this month for the last weekend of Puccini's La Bohème, staged by the Brooklyn-based LoftOpera.
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One of Harajuku's Heavyweights Brings a Cavalcade of Cute to New York
Plastic toys, bundles of fake fur, stuffed animals, and other accoutrements of manufactured cuteness clutter the walls of Kianga Ellis Projects in Japanese creator Sebastian Masuda's first United States exhibition. Better known as a fashion designer, the Tokyo-based Masuda is a leader of the Harajuk