Art
How a Long-Lost Silent Film Helped Rescue a Forgotten Kiowa Tipi
OKLAHOMA CITY — In 1920, a distinctive tipi painted with horizontal stripes appeared in a silent film called Daughter of Dawn.
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
Cloudy with a Chance of Abstraction: A Biennal for Weather Art
OKLAHOMA CITY — Beneath the tumultuous skies of Oklahoma, the National Weather Center (NWC) is hosting its second curated exhibition interpreting meteorological phenomena through art.
Books
The Promise of Glamor and Adventure in Mid-Century Airline Advertising
From the end of World War II to the 1970s, airline travel experienced a revolution in extended routes and better aircrafts.
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Sum of the Arts
Years Robert Cornelius, who is considered to have photographed the first self-portrait in 1839, ran a photo studio before returning to the lamp-making business = 2
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A Woman's Holography Museum Is Saved from Destruction
Destruction or piecemeal sale seemed the ultimate fate of Chicago's hologram museum, until the announcement on June 7 that its entire holdings were acquired by Chicago Holography Museum Rescue Mission through an anonymous benefactor.
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Century-Old School Chalkboard Drawings Offer a History Lesson
OKLAHOMA CITY — Century-old chalkboard drawings were revealed earlier this month during renovations at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City.
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Photographs from the Forgotten Underground Tunnels of World War I
Over a century after World War I broke out in Europe, the earth still bears its mutilations.
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MoMA Is Archiving Its Exhibition Websites Before They Expire
Soon over 200 exhibition websites for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), going back to its first web experiments in 1995, will be totally archived, from their images to their code.
In Brief
Designing a Revolutionary Visual Identity for the Black Panthers
"Art has relevancy, whether it's to exploit you or pacify you, or to enlighten and inform you. It's a language, that's the power of it," says Emory Douglas, the artist who drove the graphic identity of the Black Panthers.
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Recording the Fading Local Typography of Our Cities
One of the most overlooked design casualties of global homogenization is regional lettering.
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It's Not New, but It's Still NEWD: Bushwick's Very Own Art Fair
For the second year, an art fair is joining the Bushwick Open Studios happenings. The NEWD Art Show returns with 11 exhibitors to the warehouse space of The 1896.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of official colors used by the US government = 650