Art
Visitors Were Invited to Curate a Museum of Modern Nature and Here’s What Sprouted
The Wellcome Collection's Museum of Modern Nature is a crowdsourced reflection on our personal relationships to the natural world in the 21st century.
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.
News
Philadelphia Unveils Its First Statue of an African American, Civil Rights Activist Octavius Catto
The monument to the 19th-century activist Octavius Catto honors his legacy in voting, education, and baseball.
Art
Art Amid Governors Island's Architectural Decay
In its 10th edition, the Governors Island Art Fair in New York expands its installations into 1920s barracks.
Art
Let Other Visitors' Stories Guide You Through Brooklyn Bridge Park
"HEAR THEIR THERE HERE" created by Geoff Sobelle for St. Ann’s Warehouse is a site-specific sonic experience for Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Art
A Haunting Game of Survival Takes You to a Space Station in 2088
Fullbright's new theater-inspired game Tacoma immerses players in a space station haunted by the ghosts of its missing crew.
Art
An App Tells the Overlooked History of the Largest Slave Port in the Americas
The Museum of Yesterday is an augmented reality app that excavates the secret histories of Rio de Janeiro, including its major role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Books
The Rise of Paleoart, and the Artist's Role in Our Visions of Dinosaurs
Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980 argues for the art history importance of dinosaur illustrations, as they shape our understanding of this extinct world through the visual culture of the present.
Art
A Game Lets You Navigate an Artist’s Flight from Syria
Path Out from Causa Creations is an RPG video game where players follow the escape of a Syrian artist from his home to Europe.
History
The Creative Chemistry of a Photography Duo from the 1840s
In 1840s Edinburgh, painter David Octavius Hill and engineer Robert Adamson formed the city's first photography studio, which created thousands of images until Adamson's sudden death.
News
Earliest Known Zero Symbol Identified in Ancient Indian Manuscript
Carbon dating reveals the earliest known symbol for zero is in a 3rd or 4th century Indian manuscript at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries.
Art
Revisiting Cold War Ruins in Our New Era of Nuclear Dread
Front Room Gallery on the Lower East Side is exhibiting Phil Buehler's photographs of Cold War ruins, from vacant missile silos to fallout shelter signs.
Art
Stroll a Fauvist Shore in a Digital Tribute to André Derain
FAUVISTa is a digital exploration of the Fauvist colors and brushstrokes in André Derain's 1905 "Bateaux à Collioure."