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
It only took a day after Sunday's opening for a candy bar wrapper to lodge beneath the new wooden bench of the 34th Street-Hudson Yards platform, and vague stains to appear on the station's light granite floor tiles.
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For motion designers with clients demanding flashy movement that is in fact total nonsense, Vancouver-based art director and motion designer Peter Quinn created a handy set of 100 pre-made fake user interface (UI) animations.
Books
Titian Peale could have been the first major American lepidopterist, but instead his five decades of vibrant butterfly illustrations and research languished, unpublished until 130 years after his death.
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Artistic interpretations of self are inhabiting the nave of Manhattan's Church of St. Paul the Apostle, with contemporary sculpture, painting, college, and other media installed alongside the candlelit chapels and religious icons.
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In the 18th-century, French artist Jacques Gautier-D’Agoty painted numerous dissected corpses with muted colors and quiet dignity that made them appear alive, despite the flayed skin and exposed muscles.
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Estimated number of Picasso artworks that have been stolen = 1,147
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When filmmakers Eline Jongsma and Kel O'Neill began researching the Northern white rhinoceros over a year ago, there were seven on the whole planet. Now there are only four.
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Chicago's Field Museum is touring its mummies for the first time, and their inaugural stop is the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Interview
Empire Travel Agency starts with four strangers waiting for a call at a Lower Manhattan phone booth.
Books
In June of 1699, a 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian departed on a cargo ship for South America's Suriname with only her 22-year-old daughter Dorothea Maria for company.
Books
Restricted by the aesthetic limits on architecture in the Soviet Union, Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin imagined the most fantastic cities and wondrous structures on paper.
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On June 15, Jesús Moroles was driving from his home in Rockport, Texas, to Chickasha, Oklahoma, to continue work on the largest granite project of his career when he was killed in a car crash.