Art
Bloody Bloody Boudoir Ladies: Turning Kitsch Ceramics Into Horror
Edinburgh-based artist Jessica Harrison transforms the collectible ceramic ladies that populate grandmothers' china cabinets into spectacles of gore.
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
What's the Most Beautiful Sound You've Ever Heard?
What's the most beautiful sound you can think of? The Most Beautiful Sound in the World competition was recently launched to pit these different sonic captures against each other.
News
Google Opens Its Online Exhibition Interface to All
Today, Google launched Google Open Gallery, which opens its online exhibition tools to any artist, museum, archive, or gallery.
News
Today Is #MuseumMascot Day!
Today is International Museum Mascot Day, and the animals, mummies, random curios, and other collection creatures that represent their respective museums are celebrating on on Twitter with the #MuseumMascot hashtag.
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Art Movements
Barnes Foundation president resigns, Ai Weiwei to take over Alcatraz, an illustrated tribute to Nelson Mandela, convictions in the Bolshoi acid attack, and more.
Art
When Art Was the Scientist's Eye: 400 Years of Natural History Illustrations
Art has long been incredibly important to the development of science, as shown in the Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library exhibition now at the American Museum of Natural History.
Opinion
David Lynch's Abandoned Factory Photographs
David Lynch definitely knows an unnerving shot when he sees one. This is, after all, the filmmaker who brought us the distorted reality of Twin Peaks, culminating in the mind-melting Black Lodge and, well, absolutely everything in Eraserhead. Now Lynch is presenting two decades of photographs of fac
Art
Documenting the Digital Degradation of Images in Project LOSS
Each time a JPG is compressed, something of the original image is lost, and the anomalies and imperfections hiding beneath are slowly revealed. The process of this digital degradation is the focus of photographer Ellie Pritts' glitchy Project LOSS.
News
Vatican and Oxford Launch Ambitious Digital Archive of Ancient Texts
The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford and the Vatican Library have some of the richest collections of ancient biblical texts, but most of them are inaccessible to the general public. Now, through a collaborative project, 1.5 million manuscript pages are being digitized for public access o
Art
The Man Who Tried to Photograph Thoughts
In the 1960s, a Denver-based psychiatrist and a man who believed he could take photographs with his thoughts staged a series of experiments with Polaroid instant film. Dr. Jule Eisenbud and his test subject, Ted Serios, a former bellhop, were trying to prove that a psychic projection could manifest
Art
A Bad Trip at the Psychedelic Center of the Plains
OKLAHOMA CITY — The last time I checked in on the Womb — the art space opened by Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne with collaborators Rick Sinnett and Jake Harms — they were about to reopen.
Art
The Beginning Is the End: Mariko Mori at the Japan Society
It's been about a decade since Mariko Mori had a museum show in New York, and much has changed in the Japanese artist's work.