Opinion
In 1895, brothers Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean Lumière patented their cinematograph — a hand-cranked motion-picture camera inside a wooden box that weighed 16 pounds — and shot their first film on it, of workers leaving the Lumière factory.
In Brief
In "a once-in-a-century discovery," archaeologists excavating in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia have discovered two intact, solid gold vessels used by the Scythians.
Art
There's so much good stuff happening right now, it's hard to know where to start — maybe with a class on the Sumerians or a panel about the feminist legacy of painting?
Art
Celebrate the reopening of New York's smallest museum, visit Picasso's "Le Tricorne" tapestry in its new home, take a day to explore obscure and overlooked places throughout NYC — and most importantly, learn how to become Insta-famous!
Hyperallergic
We're very excited to introduce you to the three writers who will be joining us at Superscript.
Art
The idea is so ingenious, it almost seems obvious: take advertisements and remove the text that makes them so, leaving only a string of images behind.
Art
The weather is heating up in NYC, and so are the art events. This week, visit shows devoted to "neo-craftivism" and geometric abstraction, imagine the city's unrealized urban plans — or just kick back with cat videos.
Art
The 2015 Armory Show is barely two months cold, and already another art fair week is upon us.
Art
It may at first thought seem odd that the newest addition to Frieze Week in New York is a fair devoted to contemporary African art.
News
Kanye West received his honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) yesterday. The night before, he gave a talk at the school that began as a question-and-answer session but devolved, quite wonderfully, into a rambling, free-associative lecture.
Art
When your eyes start watering and you hit fairtigue, try an experimental music festival, an exhibition of work by art handlers at major NYC museums, a black art Wikipedia edit-a-thon, or any of these other events.
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A group of 54 artists and other art worlders has signed a letter asking Mayor de Blasio and Meenakshi Srinivasan, chair of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, to deny the Frick Collection's proposed plan for expansion.