Art
Visualizing the Purrrsonal Data You Share with Your Cat Photos
For Owen Mundy, the internet's love of cats is a gateway to recognizing the huge amounts of personal data we share publicly on social media.
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
A Theater's 18th-Century Thunder Run Rumbles Once More
The thunderstorm in the third act of Shakespeare's King Lear will rumble ominously in the Bristol Old Vic's production of the play this summer thanks to 18th-century sound effects.
Art
A Lifetime Devoted to Sketching the Design Details of the New York Subway
The most encyclopedic history of the art and architecture of New York City’s subway is slowly being compiled by one man, who sketches every design detail of its stations.
Art
Resuscitating a 1960s Mural Buried in a Scottish Mountain
It's called the Hollow Mountain, the granite peak of Scotland's Ben Cruachan, since an incredible cave lies a kilometer below.
Art
Researchers Unroll a Rare 19th-Century Painted Panorama
One of the longest paintings ever created is an 1848 depiction of a "whaling voyage 'round the world" that stretches 1,275 feet — roughly the length of 14 blue whales, according to its holder, the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Film
An Ojibway Prophecy Reimagined on Film
What does it mean to be Ojibway now, in 2016?
Art
Dazzle or Distress Your Patron in a Sculpture-Building Game
Somewhere after the 10th waving, severed arm that I added to my masterpiece in Super Sculptor!, my patron's response switched from joy to horror.
Art
An Immersive Dyke Bar and Other Mixed-Media Moments from Pulse Art Fair
The jukebox is quiet and there's prosecco flowing, but anachronisms aside, Macon Reed's "Eulogy for the Dyke Bar" installation is a vibrant tribute to the disappearing lesbian bar.
Art
An Acoustic Museum of Byzantine Sound
The sonic intentions of architecture are often lost over the centuries. In 2014, a team of researchers investigated the acoustics of Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki, Greece, to retrieve some of that design through sound mapping.
Books
Plumage of the Saints: Aztec Feather Art in the Age of Colonialism
In a 16th-century triptych of the crucifixion at the Musée National de la Renaissance, north of Paris, Christ has wings. In fact the whole piece is made of feathers.
Art
Walk the Eight Blocks from the Met to the Met Breuer, Accompanied by Soundscapes
John Luther Adams's "Soundwalk 9:09" is a composition that's only complete once you listen to it on the noisy New York City streets.
In Brief
8,000 Afropop Tracks from Guinea's First Decades of Independence Digitized
When French colonial forces pulled out of Guinea following its declaration of independence in 1958, they notoriously even took the lightbulbs.