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Government shutdown threatens museum closures, Carrie Mae Weems honored with MacArthur Genius Grant, NYC Opera in danger of dissolution, Corcoran Gallery wins out in Huguette Clark case, Nazi gold secrets in music, 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.
Art
Art Exploring the Worlds of Female Victorian Scientists
It wasn't easy being a female Victorian scientist. Even if you got a place to work beyond your home, it was unlikely you would ever receive an academic position, or any sort of wide recognition for laboratory success.
Performance
Transforming the Beauty of Ballet into Something Kafkaesque
The story of a man who wakes up transformed into a hideous insect isn't exactly the showpiece you would imagine for a lithe principal of London's Royal Ballet, but in The Metamorphosis dancer Edward Watson takes all the refined control of each muscle and transforms his body from grace into an image
Art
Set Your Eyes on a Cosmic Collision with the Best Space Photos of the Year
Last week, an exhibition opened with the top photographs from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013 competition at the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Centre in London.
Art
A New Gallery Made of Glass, Celebrating Openness and Women
Constructed from reclaimed windows in a vacant lot, the new Glass House exhibition space at the Invisible Dog Art Center on Bergen Street in Brooklyn appears like a DIY greenhouse, but from within the art is given a lightness against the walls of illumination.
Art
When Visiting a Museum Is an Adventure
Do you prefer the journey you want to go on, or the one you need to take? That was the question posed at the conclusion of my check in to the Institute for Psychogeographic Adventure (IPA), an experience at the Brooklyn Museum as part of the Beat Festival.
Books
The 19th-Century Story of the Wonderful Tattooed Man
The story of how a boy from Providence, Rhode Island, became "the most wonderful tattooed man ever known in the civilized world" involves menacing sailors and voyages across the sea, and was recently digitized so that we can all read this tale of the 19th century.
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Fernand Léger goes on display at the Met, Andy Warhol Museum may be soon on the LES, Eli Broad offers free admission but no MOCA money, guilty plea in art forging case, America's most famous stamp goes on permanent display, and more...
Art
Resting in Pieces: The Scattered Fate of Closed Museums
As interests shift and funding dwindles, it can be hard to keep a museum open. And after a museum ends its run and its building is shuttered, what happens to the collections?
Art
A Portrait of Mass Transit Through Its Bus Drivers
The identity of any city is reflected in its mass transit, and who better to communicate it than the transit operators themselves?
Art
The Obsession With Mapping New York City's Past
People in New York City seem to have a particular fixation with mapping the past.
Books
Bright Nights, Weird City: Photographs from the New NYC Underground
Boats constructed from the refuse of New York City; parties with flames in abandoned buildings; concerts where the crowd consumes the band in a frenzy. These are the DIY and dirty scenes of the city that Tod Seelie has spent around 15 years photographing …