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.
News
The Satanic Temple of New York unveiled on Monday designs for a Satanic monument on the steps of the Oklahoma State Capitol. The edifice, featuring plenty of occult symbolism and smiling children, is proposed for the site adjacent to the capitol's controversial Ten Commandments statue.
Art
The sound of being more than five and a half miles under the surface of the earth is something like a yawning, rumbling roar. Or at least that's what Amsterdam artist Lotte Geeven captured in her "The Sound of the Earth" project, for which she descended into one of the deepest holes in the world.
Art
Now more than ever, it's fascinating to look at the images we have from the Red Planet, and it just so happens that NASA has a whole collection in 3D.
Art
Many neighborhoods of stately row houses that rose along the East Coast late in the 19th century have declined into decay, or been torn down entirely. Yet sometimes there's one solitary holdout standing tall and proud, its neighbors long since demolished.
News
Calder lawsuit dismissed, rare flutes destroyed by US customs, stolen brains, and more in the week of art news.
Art
There are plenty of artifacts of Abraham Lincoln, from his fine pocket watch acquired while he was a successful Illinois lawyer to the presidential top hat he's believed to have worn for that infamous 1865 evening at Ford's Theater.
News
At many points over the past 15 years, it seemed that the creation of a National Lighthouse Museum on Staten Island was doomed. Yet, as of December 30, they've completed a fundraising goal that sets them on track to open on August 7, 2014.
Art
Back in 1932, a naval historian named Charles O. Paullin and a geographer named John K. Wright published a colossus of cartography called Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States.
News
The start of a new year means new entries into the public domain. Today is Public Domain Day, and as we did in 2012 and 2013, we're taking a look at the artistic additions.
News
The start of a new year means new entries into the public domain. Today is Public Domain Day, and as we did in 2012 and 2013, we're taking a look at the artistic additions.
News
French government returns looted Egyptian antiquities, Miró full of fakes, Bill Drentell passes away, FAT Architecture calls it quits, and more from the week in art news.
News
The problem with trying to take a picture of a black hole is that it consumes everything, even the light around it. Now, a team of scientists is working to make the first image of a black hole by using telescopes around the world to look at its shadowy edge.