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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Whether a five-minute walk through one man's life or a maze that would take two millennia to explore, Jason Rohrer creates meaningful experiences that could only exist as games.
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Art is often an act of venturing into the unknown, of starting something without knowing the outcome.
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A strange visual language developed from the 18th to the 20th century behind the closed doors of American secret societies.
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While other modern architects imagined a future of single-family homes that resembled Rubik's Cubes, with boxy exteriors and primary-colored walls, Austrian-American artist and architect Frederick Kiesler considered a return to cave dwelling.
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Since 1901, the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo has maintained a photography department, and now holds a collection of over 70,000 glass plate and film negatives.
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Back in the 1930s and '40s, during the height of the Great Depression, artists designed posters for the Works Projects Administration (WPA) to encourage travel to national parks and other tourist sites in the United States.
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For over three decades, Martha Graham danced her most compelling choreography on and around the abstract sculpture of Isamu Noguchi.
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New York City is seriously lacking in sculptures of historic women, with just five among the hundreds of bronzes and granite monuments in the five boroughs. Yet look into the faces of some of its allegorical figures — its angels, goddesses, and symbols of victory — and there are other real women emb
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In the 1917 board game "Suffragetto," two players compete as either police or suffragettes to defend their political bases.
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Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" already offers its own immersive, bizarre experience, with scenes of Eden and hell framing a hallucinatory garden.
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George A. Schastey had one of the most popular design firms among New York City's Gilded Age elite, but now his work is barely known.
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In the late 19th century, a valentine in the post might not necessarily mean a romantic message from a lover or admirer, it could be a downright acidic insult.