Claire Voon is a former staff writer for Hyperallergic. Originally from Singapore, she grew up near Washington, D.C. and is now based in Chicago.
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Rome will have what city officials are calling its first "archaeological station" after a construction team recently uncovered 2nd-century CE Roman barracks during ongoing work on the city's third metro line.
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A public art project to put granite sculptures of trees in a park is blossoming into a major controversy in Montreal.
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Enough is enough — when will museum visitors learn to NOT TOUCH THE ART??!
Art
The phones are ringing off the hook in the basement of IDIO Gallery, and no one is answering them.
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King Tut lay underground in his tomb for a few thousand years, but a dagger he kept by his side has far-out origins in outer space.
News
Last November, Senate Finance Committee chairman Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) sent a letter to the founders of 11 private museums across the US to investigate whether the institutions operate in a way that benefits the public enough to warrant receiving tax-exempt status.
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Record rainfall in Paris has caused intense and dangerous flooding of the Seine River to the extent that the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay are closing temporarily to safeguard their collections.
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Archaeologists in Spain have come across an extraordinary series of Paleolithic-era paintings in Basque Country's Atxurra cave that they estimate date as far back as 14,000 years.
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It may very well be the first public sculpture that commemorates the act of taking a selfie.
Art
I find it easy to get lost in a painting by Alex Dodge even if I'm not entirely certain what the subject matter is.
Art
Google Cultural Institute recently revealed that it has engineered the creatively named Google Art Camera: a custom-built camera intended to capture "ultra-high resolution 'gigapixel' images" of artworks in museums around the world.
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Brazil's interim president Michel Temer will reinstate the country's Ministry of Culture next Monday following a string of protests initiated by local artists and cultural organizations.