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Nouvel MoMA tower finally on the rise, Arthur Danto passes away, Henry Moore statue still in London dispute, Alexander Calder estate in court battle, and more.
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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Photographing the 'Bronx Riviera,' New York's Unloved Beach
Orchard Beach in the Bronx doesn't exactly have the best reputation. While the 1.1 mile stretch of beach, formed from landfill and sand shipped in via barges, was declared "The Riviera of New York" when it opened in the 1930s under the direction of Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, its profile has si
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Reverend Billy and His Choir Director Face Year in Prison for Bank Performance
For a performance in a Manhattan JP Morgan Chase bank, where they made an environmental statement dressed as extinct amphibians, Reverend Billy and the music director of his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, Neremiah Luckett, are facing a year in prison and $30,000 bail.
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A Colossal Inflatable Robot Opens Its Arms Into a Portal
Last Saturday, a giant robot unfolded its jointed inflatable arms in Red Hook to creep out into a lattice of temporary architecture.
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Recreating a Victorian Funeral in Photos
There were no photographs taken of the 1865 funeral of New Yorker Seabury Tredwell, but there could have been. Artist Hal Hirshorn has imagined what this Victorian era funeral would have looked like through the photographic techniques of the day, namely salt prints.
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A Look Inside BRIC House, a New Arts Center in the Booming Downtown Brooklyn Scene
This month, multidisciplinary nonprofit BRIC opened their 40,000-square-foot space in downtown Brooklyn that unites their programs in visual art, performance, and media under one roof.
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Radically Rethinking the Architecture of Death
What happens when you die? Well, in a literal way, what happens to everyone else. You're likely to have a traditional, costly, funeral, and then a small slot of land in a quiet sprawl of cemetery will be yours.
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The 2013 Power 100 announced, guilty pleas in Kunsthal Rotterdam theft, Met can now charge admission, sculptor Anthony Caro passes away, new developments in Christo's Over the River controversy, and more...
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The Challenges of Preserving Modernist Landscapes
While even the most coldly Brutalist buildings have found their proponents, the modernist landscapes that were built in plazas and public space in the mid-century have been slower to be embraced for preservation. Yet there’s an increasing dialogue of how, and why, modernist landscape architecture should be preserved. In
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Revealing the Invisible With Early X-Ray Photogravures
The X-ray had just been discovered when two Austrian photochemists used the emerging field of photography to create what are still some of the most beautiful captures of the hidden interior world of organisms.
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Trench Art: A Curious Creation of Conflict
During the hellish Battle of Verdun that raged from February to December of 1916, an estimated 60 million shells were blasted between the French and the Germans, leaving the people and the ground around them mutilated. This was a new and grisly type of war, yet there was an unexpected by-product of
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A Visit to an Overlooked Folk Art Cave of Crystals
MEMPHIS — Secreted in a cemetery in Memphis is a meditative work of 1930s folk art, a man-made cave created from five tons of quartz crystal and a unique process of turning concrete to wood.