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The Visual Wit of Designer Alan Fletcher Is Now Online
All work and no play infuses graphic design with a corporate dullness, but that was never the case with Alan Fletcher.
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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A Guerrilla Registry of Historic Places Pops Up in Brooklyn
For a borough with a dense and diverse history, Brooklyn doesn't have much in the way of public historic recognition. Artist Anna Robinson-Sweet's current installation project adds historic plaques around the borough, to highlight what has been forgotten.
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Exploring the Southern Edge of Bushwick Open Studios
There aren't as many outskirts to Bushwick Open Studios as there once were. The 2013 edition was brimming even at the very edges of designated "Bushwick," which really oozes over into the adjacent East Williamsburg and Ridgewood, though it seems steadfast in not stepping over the Broadway line to Be
Opinion
Sculpted from the Foam: A Kitty in Your Coffee Cup
Crafting delicate leaves or willowy hearts is something of a coffee art standard, but a barista in Japan is sculpting designs that creep out in three dimensions from the coffee foam. Kazuki Yamamoto uses just a pin, a spoon, and infinite patience (and ideally, not allowing for the coffee to get cold
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Britain's Hawkish Censorship in Venice
The British pavilion at the Venice Biennale has a rather direct engagement with the country's current war efforts, and yet the piece that was recently deemed too inflammatory and effectively censored was actually aimed at injustices against endangered birds.
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What Should the Lifespan of Art Be, and Who Decides?
A topic in art conservation that's often overlooked is: when do we stop preserving an object?
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Score! A Game of Hollow Victory Feeds Our Need for Reward
As an art game playing off our constant need for reward, Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise propels you into surreal scenarios of strutting through a landscape of explosions unharmed, collecting endless coins, and jumping inhumanly high into a digital infinity.
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A Parisian Retrospective on Marcel Breuer's Manhattan Vision
PARIS — "What should a museum look like, a museum in Manhattan?" architect Marcel Breuer asked in explaining his design for the Whitney Museum of American Art. "Surely it should work, it should fulfill its requirements, but what is its relationship to the New York landscape? What does it express, wh
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The Rite of Spring's Digital Centennial
The performance that almost incited the well-heeled of Paris to a ravenous riot is celebrating its centennial. Even now the pounding score of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring that debuted on May 29, 1913 is unnerving with each instrument falling over a complex tumult. While The Rite of Spring is
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Making a Heaven in Hell: The Angel of the Odd's Dark Romanticism
PARIS — With the bloody revolutions of the late 1700s, the mood in Europe was apprehensive and brooding about the future. Perhaps then it's no surprise that the art from that time has a certain gloominess to it as well. Yet what is unexpected is the strange beauty certain artists began to give their
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The Sensual Symbolism of Imogen Cunningham
For a young woman in the early 20th century, photographer Imogen Cunningham had a bold eye for the touch and movement of the nude human body. With a close eye for detail and an unwavering gaze, she also created striking images of flowers and straight-forward portraiture. A trilogy of artist books ar
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Museums Turn to Crowdsourcing to Unlock Secrets of their Collections
Bugs number in the billions in natural history museums worldwide, but the information embedded in their label text that could indicate changes in climate, species, and geographic distribution has yet to be digitized and so remains inaccessible. Now a project called Calbug has teamed up with Notes fr