Art
An Artist’s Meditative Project to Retype 100 Novels
Tim Youd's 100 Novels project is continuing in New York at Cristin Tierney Gallery, where he retyped Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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.
Art
From James Baldwin to Susan Sontag, Listen to Recordings from PEN America’s Vast Archive
After finding its literary archives inaccessible, PEN America launched a five-year project to digitize 1,500 hours of audio and video.
Art
Live a Year in Virtual Solitude in Walden, the Game
Walden, a Game transforms Henry David Thoreau's famed book into a thoughtful digital experience.
Books
Imagine If a Victorian Scientist Studied the Plastic Debris in Our Oceans
Mandy Barker's Beyond Drifting features pollution collected recently on the shores of Ireland, but photographed as if under a 19th-century microscope.
Art
An Atlas Maps the End of the Earth
The Atlas for the End of the World maps the end of Earth as a biodiverse resource for human exploitation.
Art
An AI Tool Predicts City Wealth Based on Satellite Imagery
Penny is an experiment in what high and low income areas look like to an AI trained on satellite imagery and census data.
Art
The First Photographs of a Solar Eclipse
Photographers have attempted to document the solar eclipse since 1842, but it took years of experimentation to capture the elusive moment of totality.
News
17th-Century Log Cabin, Reputedly the Oldest in US, Is for Sale
A 17th-century home in New Jersey needs a new caretaker, and one who has $2.9 million to spend.
Art
A History of Science Fiction’s Future Visions
The Barbican Centre's Into the Unknown explores science fiction as a cultural force, and how it channels our most optimistic and dystopian projections about the future.
News
Canada Releases World’s First Glow-in-the-Dark Coin in Circulation
The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a Northern Lights–themed luminescent coin to commemorate the country's 150th birthday.
Art
Remembering the NAACP's Silent Protest Parade, a 1917 March Against Racial Terror
Yale's Beinecke Library marks the centennial of when 10,000 people marched silently through New York City, one of the earliest African American civil rights demonstrations.
News
Help NASA Design a Radiation Shield That Folds Like Origami
NASA is launching an idea challenge for a compact radiation shield that would protect spacecraft and the astronauts within.