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Climate Change Data Set to Music to Serenade a Warming Planet
A cellist has composed a haunting song that turns charted data of climate change into an ominous serenade.
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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The First 3D Database of Fossils, Which You Can Even Print
To improve their online visuals and connect a number of museum collections, the British Geological Service launched the first database of 3D fossils last week.
Books
Better than Central Park: Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn Masterpiece
While we may not participate in miniature yacht races or have games of lawn tennis, the experience of visitors today to Brooklyn's Prospect Park isn't radically different from when it first opened in 1867.
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Listen to the Eerie Tune of a Toy Pig That Last Played as the Titanic Sank
Just over a hundred years since it serenaded Titanic survivors huddled in a lifeboat on the icy seas, a little toy pig's music has been resurrected.
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Art Movements
Artifact looting and ancient church destruction in Egypt, the Christie's appraisal of DIA, Old Masters saved in Berlin, 5 Pointz death knell, and more.
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The Sharpest Photographs Ever Taken of the Night Sky
A new technology is allowing astronomers to take sharper than ever photographs of the night sky, revealing secrets of the solar system and the universe beyond.
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Mid-Century Illustration Maps Folkloric Americana
John Henry with his hammer, Rip Van Winkle taking a snooze, the Celebrated Jumping Frog rests alongside Coronado scaling a mountain, while Babe the Blue Ox sprints towards the famous Idaho potato. All these figures of American folklore are sprawled across the United States in a 1946 map by artist Wi
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Celebrating Female Game Designers
While a recent report showed that almost half of those who play video games are women, the representation of women in game design is much lower. To increase female visibility, and in the hopes of encouraging would-be designers, the Museum of Design Atlanta is hosting the first exhibition on women as
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Digital Repatriation Through an Aboriginal Art Archive
Artifacts in museums — in an effort for preservation — are often placed out of reach of the communities with which they are entwined. One way museums are bridging this divide is digitization, and with this purpose in mind, the South Australian Museum is currently undertaking a massive project to pho
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Using Skateboard Culture to Preserve a Native Art Form
Keeping an art form relevant to the next generation is essential for its survival, and a skateboard company in Juneau, Alaska, is using the Native formline art of the Northwest Coast to both celebrate this cultural tradition and create some sweet decks.
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Destroy the Brutalism, Leave the Picasso: A Debate Over What's Worth Saving in Oslo
After being damaged by a 2011 car bomb, some Brutalist architecture in Oslo is up for demolition. While the debate between the protection of Brutalist architecture and those who see its heavy concrete designs as ugly and bleak is not infrequent in preservation, these buildings include five murals by
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Artist, Activist, and Ex-Nun Corita Kent Gets a New Monograph
As a nun who embraced both pop culture and contemporary art, Corita Kent refracted the messages of religion through the populist medium of printmaking, leaving a legacy of vibrant art that is just now being fully explored. A new book from Prestel, Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent, published in