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
There may be no such thing as a perfect heist, but that doesn't mean there can't be a beautifully designed one. That's the idea behind London-based designer Ilona Gaynor's "Under Black Carpets" project, which looks at the architecture of a city landscape as both an aid and a detriment in her evolvin
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As dreams are the fragments of personal memory colliding into our sleep, it makes sense that "dreamscapes" imagined by a prominent fashion photographer would be rich with sleek surrealism and carefully staged beauty.
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If you only know Crispin Hellion Glover as a quirky actor with the gift of an unsettling gaze, then you're missing out on the major focus of his career as the producer of experimental films that lunge voraciously into taboos. And it's easy to miss, as the only way to see these films is when he scree
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The Bahamas is making its Venice Biennale debut this year with a look at one of history's overlooked Arctic explorers, a man who may have even been the first to set foot on the North Pole.
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What is a meme? How is it a part of our greater cultural dialogue? Jump on Twitter to #AskAMemeMaker today, and join in a dialogue on just how memes can be more than just internet noise.
Opinion
Some ideas are so simple it's kind of crazy they haven't been thought of before, especially given the constant exhaustion of creativity in advertising. But these billboards from IBM — which act as ramps, benches, or rain shelters — represent a particular triumph of form and function.
Art
Using just acrylic paint and resin, Singaporean artist Keng Lye shapes three dimensional depictions of animals that seem suddenly frozen in time.
Books
The technique of etching has given many a brooding artist a shadowy medium for their art, and while the time-consuming mode of creation has fallen out of mainstream popularity, Moroccan artist Érik Desmazières continues to use etching almost exquisitely in his work.
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The massive Domino Sugar Factory that faces the East River with its iconic yellow sign is expected to soon be dwarfed by towering skyscrapers. However, there are some supporters who are rallying to get public support to turn the old factory into a cultural center.
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With the arrival of accessible photography came a developed culture of portraiture for not just the living, but the dead. Up until the 1830s with the creation of the daguerrotype, creating an image for remembrance of your loved ones was reserved for the rich, who could commission paintings. Yet with
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How shapes self-assemble in nature is a mystery of science yet to be unraveled, but sculpting a miniature flower garden may shed some light on self-assembly and spur innovation in microscopic engineering.
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The Heidelberg Project was started as a way to transform the depressing decay of an east Detroit neighborhood, but it has since experienced its own set of devastations. In both 1991 and 1999, parts of it were demolished, and just this past month there was a fire that wrecked its oldest house. Now th