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Dazzling WWI Camouflage Public Art Project Transforms a Historic New York Fireboat
To mark the centenary of World War I's end, a New York fireboat is repainted by artist Tauba Auerbach in a dazzling tribute to the era's most colorful camouflage.
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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"The High Multicultural Court of Wisdom" and Other Utopias by Bodys Isek Kingelez
City Dreams at the Museum of Modern Art explores how Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez envisioned a future utopia through sculptures of imagined cities.
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Digitally Explore Thousands of Artifacts Excavated from an Amsterdam Canal
From shipwreck artifacts to everyday trash, Below the Surface is a digital archive for centuries of human detritus, all exhumed from an Amsterdam canal.
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Photo Exhibit Adds to the Dialogue on Slavery and American Universities
A photography exhibition on James Collins Johnson is part of a greater initiative at Princeton to investigate and give visibility to the university's ties to slavery.
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How Medieval Artists Used Monsters as Propaganda
In Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York is exhibiting 70 examples of the monstrous in the Middle Ages.
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Backpack-Sized Archiving Kit Empowers Community Historians to Record Local Narratives
The new Archivist in a Backpack project from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill equips community partners with tools to start material and oral history archives.
Books
A Photographic Journey Across Iceland in Search of Magic
Spanish photographer Bego Antón traveled across Iceland, visiting the people who see and live with the country's magical creatures.
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A Floating Glass Art Studio’s Four-Month Journey Around New York State
The Corning Museum of Glass's GlassBarge is traveling the New York waterways from Brooklyn to the Finger Lakes, offering free demonstrations of glassblowing.
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Retracing the Steps of a Pioneering Seed Collector Who Starved in a Stalinist Prison
Mario Del Curto photographed the Saint Petersburg seed bank founded by Nikolai Vavilov, and the scientists who carry on his legacy of protecting plant diversity.
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Kiki Smith Takes Over the Eldridge Street Synagogue with 50 Artworks
After collaborating on the starry window that presides over the Museum at Eldridge Street, Kiki Smith returns with a site-specific installation of sculptural work.
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A Video Game Takes You Cross-Country into the Origins of American Folklore
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a game of gathering and sharing stories, which grow and change in the telling.
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Gorogoa Is a Hand-Illustrated Puzzle That Reflects the Transformative Power of Imagination
Jason Roberts spent seven years hand-illustrating Gorogoa, a layered puzzle game that unfolds like a fragmented storybook.