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.
Books
Hello, New York: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Five Boroughs and Meanwhile in San Francisco: A City in its Own Words — each being published in March by Chronicle Books — are like compilations of memory from living in a city.
Art
Frank Lloyd Wright believed dense urban cities would never make it into the next century. He wrote that "the citizen of the near future preferring horizontality — the gift of his motorcar, and telephonic or telegraphic inventions — will turn and reject verticality as the body of any American city."
Art
The 2014 World Press Photo contest awardees were announced today, with the winners for the major photojournalism prize showing both the wonder and violence of the past year.
Art
Few major architects have centennial exhibitions highlighting how some of their works are "dying quiet deaths," but that is part of the legacy of Dan Kiley.
Art
Have you ever noticed the musical notes tattooed on some unfortunate soul in Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights"?
News
More Nazi looted art emerges, Germany announces it will create an independent center for looted art, Picasso tapestry stays up, Nancy Holt, Hudson and Stuart Hall die, and much more.
Books
The dirty alchemy of photographer Roger Ballen in combination with frenetic rap-ravers Die Antwoord resulted in the video for "I Fink U Freeky" in 2012. Now a monograph distills the mix of the South African collaborators to its elements.
Books
There are a multitude of publications out there covering video games, from reviewing play to industry news, but a new journal is aiming to fill a void in the discussion of experimental games and art.
News
Photography was rare in the early days of California urban development, but some pioneer practitioners did get out to the burgeoning bustle of Los Angeles and Santa Monica. Now one collector's passionate focus on photography of 19th-to-mid-20th-century California has culminated in 4,600 images being
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UNESCO pledges support for Cairo museum, George Bellows painting leaves Virginia for London, major Islamic art loan at the Dallas Museum, missing Empire State Building art, and more from the week in art news.
Art
A Parisian mayoral candidate is proposing turning the city's abandoned subway stations into public space.
Art
At the end of last month, the 2014 Metro Show in Manhattan brought a miscellany of oddities the likes of which are rarely seen at art fairs. From art of the occult to sideshow advertisements to deeply unsettling children's toys, the experience was like tumbling into a cluttered curiosity shop.