Opinion
A Glimpse of Photography's Hand-Colored Past
In the days when black-and-white photography reigned, professional colorists took on the task of creating technicolor views by meticulously painting pictures by hand.
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Kara Walker’s Puppets Dance in a New Music Video for Santigold
Even if you're familiar with artist Kara Walker’s signature shadow puppets, you've probably never seen them looking as cheerful as they do in electro-pop artist Santigold’s new music video.
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Simon Says This Is the Best Music Video Filmed in a Museum
For his 1999 hit single "Simon Says," the Queens rapper Pharoahe Monch used one of the borough's most sci-fi structures as a post-apocalyptic battleground.
Opinion
Cruising Through Ed Ruscha’s Career in Seven Minutes
Despite his resistance to the characterization, Ed Ruscha has a reputation as a quintessential Los Angeles artist.
Opinion
Welcome to Videodrome
Once a year, Hyperallergic probes the video vault that is the internet to present a daylong series we’ve named after the 1983 sci-fi classic Videodrome.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Italy lobbied to have Venice excluded from UNESCO's list of endangered heritage sites, a makeup artist and model sued Richard Prince for copyright infringement, and the Portland Art Museum revealed plans to repatriate an 18th-century painting to Korea.
Art
The Hand-Painted Ghouls and Specters of Mid-20th-Century Carnival Ghost Trains
Almost all carnivals traveling the circuits in the United States and Great Britain in the 1940s and '50s towed their own haunted railroad.
Art
A Cookbook Inspired by Brad Pitt's On-Screen Eating Habits
You know when you're watching a Brad Pitt movie and Brad Pitt is eating food in the movie and you're not sure which you want more, Brad Pitt or the food?
Art
Evocative and Futile Fantasies of Nature Tamed
MONTRÉAL — It is known that hummingbirds come to the call of red, their eyes configured for a sensitivity toward rouged hues.
Art
Modeling the Modern Witch in the Age of Trump
Americans love their mythos almost as much as they love their country. But with the appalling lack of civility during this year’s election, a few monsters of our past are returning to wreak havoc.
Art
Harboring Art in Historic Spaces at the 2016 Governors Island Art Fair
The circular sandstone fort of Castle Williams has had numerous identities since it was completed on Governors Island in 1811, from New York City harbor defense to Civil War barracks to military prison.
Books
From White Cube to White Panel: Comics Informed by Contemporary Art
Blaise Larmee was a natural choice to edit the first issue of Mirror Mirror, the new flagship anthology from Minneapolis-based comics publisher 2dcloud.