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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Want to get to know New York City architecture better, from its 18th century past to modular present? Each day of October a city building is being featured, with a tour to take you into its design and history.
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The last time anyone attempted to catalogue all known Gothic ivory sculpture was a three-volume publication from a French scholar in 1924, but now the Gothic Ivories Project at London's Courtauld Institute of Art is taking a 21st century stab at it with an online database.
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The government shutdown is over, a Henry Moore was stolen, claim against Austria for Klimt frieze, Zimbabwe theft, Getty lets 5400 images free, and more.
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A crowd of whimsical theremins is currently residing in a Bowery gallery, ready to play out their eerie music from mid-century-inspired handmade forms.
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A changing climate could impact the food that we eat, as alterations to the chemistry of the ocean or the world's weather have the potential to make some animals and plants extinct. The GhostFood truck simulates what this reality might be like, where the tastes of vanished foods are resurrected thro
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Many studies of anatomy and the beauty of the human body are all about symmetry and proportions, a sort of endless steamrolling of Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" through art history. Yet that barely explores the incredible diversity of human forms. It's the "variant body" that artist Riva Lehre
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No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and Romans, yet we know that they looked to the stars and to the widening world around them and responded with their own influential cartography.
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The Museum of Sex has opened its own cocktail bar with rotating artist-designed drinks, and one of the first is called Lickable Skin. It's meant to taste like kissing an older man who has just shaved and smoked a cigarette.
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The last chance for 5Pointz survival lost, DIA looks at moving to state control, Martin Creed's first retrospective, lost Da Vinci possibly found, Norman Rockwell painting definitely lost, and more...
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A New Orleans project that started in 2011 as an experiment with musical architecture is planning a return, although this time with roving ramshackle structures that can eventually become a permanent soundscape in the city.
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Since Jodi Cobb joined National Geographic in 1977 as the magazine's first female staff photographer, more and more women photographers have contributed images to the publication in essays on human rights, conflict zones, the minds of teenagers, epidemics, life in the remote corners of the world, an
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The newly open-the-public Timothy Leary papers at the New York Public Library is a fascinating trove.