Art
We Gave Medals to the Best Art at the Rio Olympics
They're all about sports, but that doesn't mean the 2016 Rio Olympics have no room for art.
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Art
Cao Fei’s Fantastical Take on China’s Sociopolitical Climate
In Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities, Marco Polo regales Kublai Khan with tales of his travels, musing about the strange poetry of each city and their intersections with memory and selfhood.
Comics
The Freelance Olympics
One hurdle after another.
Opinion
Vanessa Beecroft Publicly Airs a Racist Perspective
One can only imagine the patience and tolerance required of New York Magazine writer Amy Larocca to spend time with Vanessa Beecroft and listen to the utter absurdity spewing from the artist’s mouth.
Art
Digitizing the World's Largest Braille Music Collection
Digitizing braille music isn't as easy as just scanning the page. The tactile notations require multiple steps for accurate transcription, and their history of touch means the dots are sometimes smashed or otherwise unreadable.
Art
Interactive Maps of the Metropolitan Museum Offer Fresh Views of Its Permanent Collections
It's fun to wander around the Metropolitan Museum of Art without a paper guide, but students in the School of Visual Arts' MFA Visual Narrative program have created a number of creative, interactive maps for the museum well worth consulting.
Interview
Retracing a Lifetime of Urban Activism Through Jane Jacob's Last Interview
"The kind of planning for a city that would really work would be a sort of informed, intelligent improvisation, which is what most of our planning in life is in any case," said Jane Jacobs in a 1962 interview with Mademoiselle, conducted just after the 1961 publication of her influential The Death a
Art
In Phnom Penh, an Artist Confronts the City’s Deadly Traffic
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In Phnom Penh, cars drive like motorcycles, motorcycles drive between lanes and on sidewalks, and even the police don't seem to care much about traffic lights.
Art
At a Concert, Floating Through Outer Space in Virtual Reality
On Saturday night, some 6,000 people gathered on the Prospect Park Bandshell’s grassy knoll and waited to be beamed up into space.
Art
An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord's 'The Society of the Spectacle'
The spectacle can be found on every screen that you look at. It is the advertisements plastered on the subway and the pop-up ads that appear in your browser.
Poetry
One Poem by Hirato Renkichi
Our new poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Hirato Renkichi, translated by Sho Sugita, for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
When Painter Clyfford Still Sent Rubber Underpants to a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Female Art Critic
In 1952, years before she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, art critic Emily Genauer received a pair of rubber underpants in the mail — the kind of underpants babies wore before the advent of disposable diapers.