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A Mural Reimagines the History of a 19th-Century Tongan Club
Auckland-based artist Benjamin Work painted a Manhattan mural that activates the narrative history of a Tongan club in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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 VR Experience Offers a First-Person View of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike
I Am A Man by Derek Ham is a VR interactive story set in 1968 Memphis that puts you in the shoes of a striking sanitation worker.
Books
Aerial Photographs Reveal the Environmental Scars of American Industry
In the 1980s, photographer David T. Hanson captured aerial views of Superfund sites, revealing the environmental toll of American industry.
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The Artist Who Witnessed the Beauty and Horror of WWI Aerial Combat
Henri Farré left behind his comfortable life as a portraitist to join the French military, and depict firsthand the birth of combat aviation in WWI.
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Artists Confront the Radioactive Landscapes of the United States
Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape at UB Art Galleries in Buffalo examines the nuclear past and future of the United States.
Books
Photographing the Daily Roar of Life on a New York City Flight Path
In Landing Lights Park, photographer David Rothenberg captures a quiet Queens neighborhood disrupted by descending airplanes.
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Dance with Digital Flamingos to Raise Awareness of Habitat Loss
Flarmingos is an ongoing augmented reality project, on Governors Island in New York, in which artist Kristin Lucas asks people to join digital flamingos in a dance of ecological awareness.
Books
Luminous Summer Scenes from Local American Fairs
Photographer Pamela Littky spent the summer of 2015 driving thousands of miles through 15 states to capture the American fair.
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Drawings of Daily Resistance from the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Delaware Art Museum is exhibiting a series of drawings by Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman of the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Sculpt the World in the First Nintendo Game Developed by an African Studio
The video game Semblance by the South Africa-based Nyamakop studio has players reshaping a malleable digital world before it petrifies.
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A Pop-Up Pencil Museum Underlines a History that Has Almost Been Erased
The Pencil Museum is an art installation by Jackie Mock that celebrates New York City's pencil history and its connection to Staten Island.
Books
A Photographer Follows the Urban Migration of China's Rural Trees
In Forest, photographer Yan Wang Preston documents the big business of relocating mature rural trees to the new urban centers of China.