Art
A Video Game Inspired by Philip K. Dick's Sci-Fi Worlds
The developers of Californium call their game a "love letter to Philip K. Dick."
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
As Met Breuer Opens, Two of the Architect's Buildings Face an Uncertain Fate
Prominence of name has never guaranteed the preservation of architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright's Park Avenue Showroom was demolished in 2013 just blocks from his iconic Guggenheim Museum, Louis Kahn's Philadelphia commercial storefront was torn down in 2014, just a couple of years after the grand unve
Art
The First Woman Photographer Captured the Elegance of Algae
Algae is graceful and light in the ocean, swaying with the waves like hair in the wind.
Books
Bright Lights, Blinged Bible at the Morgan Library
The 9th-century Lindau Gospels, named for its former home at the Lindau Abbey on Lake Constance in Germany, wasn't the first book J. Pierpont Morgan purchased for his library, but in the collections of the Morgan Library & Museum, it's labeled "MS M. 1."
Art
Debuting the Collection of Britain's Mother of Modern Witchcraft
In 2013, a blue plaque, the historic marker of British heritage, was bestowed, for the first time, on the home of a witch.
Books
Art Nouveau’s Deep Sea Muse
Art Nouveau's organic shapes surfaced thanks to some underwater inspiration.
Art
Wolf Teeth, Cradle Knives, and Other Early Modern Sleep Superstitions
Sleep for early modern Europeans was a time to be wary of demons and other dangers of the night.
Art
Hans Holbein's Anamorphic Skull as a Temporary Tattoo
A huge, distorted skull appears like a slash across Hans Holbein the Younger's 1533 "The Ambassadors," and it's only when viewed from an angle that the death's head emerges from the painting in three dimensions. It's one of the most famous uses of anamorphosis, but how to communicate this unique ome
Art
Rescuing the Logbooks of 19th-Century Whaling Ships
Each whaling ship that departed the northeastern United States carried a logbook aboard, in which whale hunts, shipwrecks, weather conditions, and daily sailing life were recorded.
Art
Cage aux Folios: Mark Dion Makes a Library for Birds
It takes a few minutes for the avian residents of Mark Dion's "The Library for the Birds of New York" to settle back into their chirping and fluttering after you've entered the giant cage and stepped below the strange white oak laden with books.
Books
Rethinking Life Beneath Our Cities' Concrete Overpasses
With the rapid development of transportation infrastructure in the 20th century, much of our urban land was shrouded in shadow.
Performance
An Immersive Theater Trip to a 1970s Tropical Paradise
Only minutes after walking through a hallway painted like the cabin of an airplane and handing my mock boarding pass to a charming man in a Hawaiian shirt, who greeted me with a lei, I was in a secret room getting a tarot reading.