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.
Art
"Sécurité, sécurité, I have 16 canoes and a marching band northbound on the East River, just north of Newtown Creek." Those were the words radioed to Vessel Traffic Services yesterday afternoon as a group of activists circumnavigated Manhattan, some in handcrafted boats made of paper.
Art
It isn't often you're given the luxury of unwinding in a library aboard an old vessel, unless you're Charles Darwin or Steve Zissou.
Art
WASHINGTON, DC — For Perspectives, Chiharu Shiota's exhibition that opened last weekend at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the artist filled a corner of the lobby with nearly 400 individual worn shoes and four miles of yarn.
Art
Self-published, cheaply-made, and disseminated after running through copy machines, zines — short for "fanzine" — have existed as simple and cost-effective creative soapboxes. Zines+ and the World of ABC No Rio, a current exhibition at the Center for Book Arts, presents publications from the archive
In Brief
Architect Zaha Hadid, who designed the Al Wakrah stadium in Qatar currently in its initial stages of construction, recently filed a lawsuit against New York Review of Books architecture critic Martin Filler, Dezeen reported.
Art
As a black man played dead at the base of one of Philadelphia's most iconic sculptures, tourists continued snapping photographs in front of the landmark, the intrusive body lying at their feet recalling that of the slain Michael Brown.
In Brief
In an ongoing case, Australian artist Paul Yore is facing child pornography charges following complaints concerning his work in a group show on view last year at Melbourne's Linden Centre of Contemporary Arts.
News
Today, Riverbed, Olafur Eliasson's first solo exhibition at Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, fills the museum's South Wing with dirt and rocks of all sizes, complete with a narrow, meandering trench of water, to transform the space into a craggy landscape.
In Brief
The canine is present for this summer's most radical piece of performance art, an homage to one pup-ular retrospective held at the the Museum of Modern Art in 2010.
Opinion
Global warming is a phrase that pops up just about everywhere, ensuring that we confront our planet's worsening climate changes. Designer Milton Glaser, however, is aiming to stress that the reality of the environmental situation is much worse than the term 'warming' would suggest.
In Brief
One of London's expansive resources of cultural and art history may face an uncertain future and is currently the center of controversy.
Art
Anyone can visit Tate Britain without leaving her home thanks to Google Art Project, but how about doing so while its galleries are dark, and furthermore, with greater authority?