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India’s Scientific and Metaphysical Views of Medicine in Objects
The medical culture of India is perhaps among the world's most complex, integrating the scientific and metaphysical realms.
Claire Voon
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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Rethinking Architecture After Catastrophe
From London's Great Fire of 1666 to the Nepal earthquake, Creation from Catastrophe focuses on a number of the world's most destructive events through our history, exploring the designs that emerged in their aftermath out of necessity, through architectural maquettes, drawings, photographs, and vide
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Bringing van Gogh’s Life to the Big Screen at 12 Oil Paintings per Second
Described as "the world's first feature-length painted animation," a forthcoming film will tell the life story of Vincent van Gogh through over 120 of his own oil paintings.
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Anish Kapoor Gets Exclusive Rights to the World's Darkest Material [UPDATED]
Anish Kapoor now owns the exclusive rights to the world's darkest material — a claim that, naturally, is pissing off other artists.
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Department of Labor Sues B&H Photo Over Discriminatory Practices [UPDATED]
The US Department of Labor is suing B&H Photo Video for violating federal requirements to provide equal opportunity to and fair treatment of workers at one of its warehouses in Brooklyn.
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From Ancient Inuit Maps to Poetry, Researchers Send Art to the Moon
A capsule filled with art and artifacts is headed to the moon at the start of next year, where it will remain indefinitely as a celebration of the human capacity for creativity.
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Intact Bronze Age Wheel Turns Up in Britain
Archaeologists with the University of Cambridge have uncovered the largest and most complete example of a Bronze Age wheel, the earliest of its kind in Britain.
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Photography's Blue Period Gets Its First Major Show in the US
In 1842, British scientist Sir John Herschel experimented with the effect of light on iron compounds, inventing a process to produce the blue-tinted prints we know as cyanotypes.
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Artist Plans New York City Monument To Put Donald Trump in His Place
Now the world may receive its first Donald J. Trump public sculpture, which isn't exactly an honorable tribute to the Cheeto-colored candidate scarily inching his way to becoming the Republican presidential nominee.
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The Handcrafted Paper Stencils of a Kimono Designer Who Turned to Prints
For decades, the late Japanese artist Yoshitoshi Mori worked as an established kimono designer, using a stencil-based technique to dye his textiles.
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Chinese Government Has Had It with “Oversized, Weird” Architecture
Architects in China apparently need to tone down the quirkiness of their designs and quit erecting buildings that pass as giant pants, penises, and ancient coins.
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Incarcerated Artists Draw Portraits of America's Corporate Criminals
Some of the portraits seem fit for the walls of a boardroom; others, the display tables of sketch artists on a boardwalk.