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New York's Cathedral of Science Reopens with Interactive Ecology Beneath the Stars
The Great Hall at the New York Hall of Science in Queens was designed to give visitors to the 1964 World's Fair the feeling of floating in deep space.
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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A Once Shattered Statue Is Now Part of a Theatrical Experiment at the Metropolitan Museum
How many times is a sculpture sculpted?
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Mapping 13 Centuries of English Metaphors
A three-year project from the University of Glasgow's School of Critical Studies mapped 13 centuries of metaphors in the English language.
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Follow All the Tech and Trash Orbiting Earth, in Real Time
While humanity has only been launching huge payloads into outer space since the 1950s, with Sputnik breaking into orbit in 1957, a lot of human-made debris and technology now circle the planet.
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Sum of the Arts
Photographs taken by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland author Lewis Caroll in his lifetime = 3,000
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Preserving the Concrete Listening Ears of Early Surveillance
Prior to the invention of radar in the 1930s, a system of concrete acoustic mirrors was set up around the coast of the United Kingdom as an early form of surveillance.
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Florida's Failed Moorish Utopia Plans a Better Future Through Art
Domes in muted colors and geometric murals adorn the buildings in Opa-locka, which, despite its abundance of Moorish revival architecture, is a long way from north Africa.
Books
Where Primordial Lava Flows into Ice
Iceland, more than most places on the planet, frequently reveals the cataclysmic activity below its crust through volcanoes, fissures, and geothermal pools.
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Commemorating the Civil War with Brooklyn's Buried Dead
For 13 years, volunteers at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery scoured its archives for internments related to the US Civil War, whether soldier or civilian.
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Can You Solve These Early 20th-Century Newspaper Puzzles?
Better known for his realist paintings of New York City street life, Ashcan School artist John Sloan was also a master of visual mind-bending.
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22,000 Images from Leading US & UK Authors, Including Wilde & Thoreau, Released Online
Around 22,000 images from collections on 25 authors are now available through the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
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The Digital Lives of Public Art Considered in City Hall Park
Digital artifacts manifested as public sculpture populate the Public Art Fund’s Image Objects in Lower Manhattan's City Hall Park.