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 American suburbs are already surreal places, perfectly planned roads dotted with identical homes infinitely replicated across the country. In his two-year Suburban project, Australian artist Ian Strange radically transformed these places into something even more otherworldly with paint and flame
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Stolen Rotterdam Kunsthal paintings feared incinerated, Hôtel Lambert in Paris definitely has burned, Detroit files for bankruptcy, 5 Pointz edges closer to demolition, a major boost for California arts funding, and more.
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There's something about the cluttered aesthetic of the 19th century that is definitely missed even if, sure, context and history could play second chair to spectacle.
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People have always loved a good lurid story, the more complicated by family twists and accented by violence the better. Back in the 19th century, thousands of chapbooks were printed in Spain and England that chronicled grisly crimes and romantic intrigue for the public, and since a large part of the
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With his heavy modernist hand and love of concrete, you wouldn't really think of architect Le Corbusier as someone who communed with nature. Yet in the current MoMA exhibition Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, there is among the architectural drawings and cubic models a small case of natu
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It took two centuries for the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan to be remembered, when 18th century bones were found interred in a forgotten cemetery beneath the construction of a new high dollar federal development in 1991. While that long-overlooked cemetery is now remembered with a museum
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With summer sweltering and those high air conditioning bills to pay, you're melting quickly and not made of money. Why not watch some free online art programming to ease your eyes? Here are eight web series available from your internet device.
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From a standpoint of cohesion, the architecture of the 20th century was a mess. Brutalist monoliths were constructed alongside shimmering aluminum waves, while some architects clung to scraps of classicism like life preservers in a swelling sea of modernism. However, it was this mishmash of styles a
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In Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary (Prestel, 2012), performer Elizabeth Streb relays an anecdote about artist Nancy Grossman startling her by wearing a monkey fur jacket. It's one of those images that has an unsettling, visceral nature to it, like striding through life in a skin ripped from another
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New plans for the development of 5 Pointz, new funds for Queens museums, the settlement of the National Arts club lawsuit, the demolition of an ancient pyramid in Peru, and more.
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Penguin UK has released ten editions of ten contemporary classics with covers all commissioned from street artists, using photographs documenting the literary-inspired work.
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For the amount of time that people have been dying, which is quite long really, our designs for death haven't changed as much as our designs for everything else.