Art
Searching for a Shaman in a Hand-Painted Video Game
Teku Studios spent four years hand-painting a watercolor world for their game Candle, in which players decode puzzles through clues embedded in the art.
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Irish Artists Fight to Repeal Their Country's Abortion Ban
Artists in Ireland are using diverse tactics to broadcast the message of the pro-choice movement, despite efforts to silence them.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Giorgio Vasari's "Last Supper" was reinstalled 50 years after being damaged by flooding, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned a white nationalist conference that took place nearby, and David Hockney was commissioned to create a stained glass window for Westminster Abbey.
Art
A Chinese Museum Invites Artists to Respond to the Local Landscape
"Mountain Sites" is a merry chase of an exhibition that remains tuned in to the presence and the (often anachronistic) contemporaneity of its locality.
Art
The Loneliness of a Digitally Manipulated Boxing Match
Encountering a boxing match projected on the wall of a darkened room is pretty unlikely while roaming around Chelsea galleries — unless you’re at a Paul Pfeiffer show.
Art
Divination, Geomancy, and the Supernatural in Islamic Art
Over 100 rare objects from the 12th to 20th centuries are used to explore the role of the supernatural in Islamic art at the Ashmoleon Museum in Oxford.
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Unpacking Trauma by Examining the Bullet that Caused It
The video essay is Vanessa Gravenor’s attempt to make sense of her trauma, which remains serpentine, meandrous, never subsiding, ever present.
Art
A Small Celebration of One of the Kiowa Six’s Most Prolific Painters
Four paintings by Stephen Mopope, discovered a few years ago at Brown University, are on view for the first time.
Books
Visions of the US Flag that Could Have Been
A book revisits a selection of 50 previously unseen suggested redesigns of the American flag made between 1958 and 1959.
Art
Exploring the Faulty Nature of Memory in Video Art and Clay
Artist and composer Alexis Gideon synesthetically examines the nebulous line between memory and truth in The Comet and the Glacier, on view at Locust Projects.
Art
A Video Cookbook Documents the Diverse Food Experiences of New York City
Artists Theresa Loong and Laura Nova's Feed Me a Story gathers family recipes and immigrant food experiences through a roving social engagement project.
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Happy Thanksgiving from Hyperallergic!
Thanks to artist Anthony Antonellis for cooking up a special Hyperallergic treat for Thanksgiving.