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
"We are not supposed to know what happens in the future," states the first character you encounter in Year Walk, an iOS game released last month that pushes the boundaries of what experiences can be created through mobile gaming. More than just a series of puzzles or point-and-click game, Year Walk
News
After sustaining significant damage in Hurricane Sandy, the Coney Island History Project is reopening their reconstructed space on March 24, Coney Island's Opening Day, and are already looking at ways to capture the story of the storm as part of their mission to chronicle the area's history.
Art
Quick, think of a new use for a baseball bat. If you thought of something that doesn't involve a swinging action (e.g., smashing things), such as using it as a rolling pin, congratulations, you're a person with excellent creativity. However, you may also have less of a brain "filter" than most.
Opinion
With Catholicism's long connection with the arts, from Michelangelo making the Sistine Chapel a place of transcendence to the Vatican Museums' huge troves of artifacts and art, it's worth looking at how the incoming pope may feel about contemporary visual culture. Yet while the outgoing Pope Benedic
News
A high profile arts institution recently joined the spiking number of free online classes, with the California Institute of the Arts teaming up with Coursera. The rapidly expanding offerer of MOOCs, or "massive open online courses," is only a year old, but since it started in 2012 it's grown from pa
Art
While the New York Public Library is reconsidering their architecture through a luminous, yet radical, Norman Foster proposal that would modernize the Schwarzman Building and reconfigure its stacks into reading areas, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is unearthing the architect who popularized those
Art
The taking of an idea and slightly altering it, over and over again, can often be more interesting than the executed initial idea itself, as anyone who has ever listened to, say, a Philip Glass opera or seen the current process-oriented Matisse exhibition at the Met can appreciate. Over at the Journ
News
The New York Times reported yesterday that New York City is withholding payments this fiscal year into a pension system for many cultural centers with city contracts, such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Art
The details of The Exploded Mind of Mulholland Hwang are incredible, from the haphazard arrangement of the objects in Hwang's "room" to the tiny, tiny animals hiding in the landscapes of dioramas. But it's really the illustrations that show the most personality, of the artists and the animals alike.
Books
There is a dislocated loneliness in being unmoored, in drifting away from connections and places until you become stuck somewhere again. Andrew Zornoza's Where I Stay, published in 2009 Tarpaulin Sky Press, is a both spare and sprawling interpretation of this feeling. His compact prose set to the rh
Art
For a total contrast to the sterile feel of many of the swarming art fairs this week in New York, where most art is untouchable in its protective frames, go to Long Island City to experience Headscapes. The group exhibition of over 25 artists doesn't just encourage you to touch, but to crawl and cli
Art
The ADAA Art Show marked its 25th anniversary this year, and the 2013 edition at the Park Avenue Armory was definitely a very mature, stately fair, with only the slightest of dark undertones to its otherwise unsurprising, but elegantly sleek, presentation.