News
A Map Library Is Digitizing Its Rarest Globes as 3D Models
"Globes have a very low survival rate," explained Ian Fowler, director of the Osher Map Library (OML) at the University of Southern Maine.
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In Brief
Chinese Government Has Had It with “Oversized, Weird” Architecture
Architects in China apparently need to tone down the quirkiness of their designs and quit erecting buildings that pass as giant pants, penises, and ancient coins.
Art
Unraveling the Lost Inca Language of Knots
The ancient Inca had no known written language, but they may have used an intricate language of knots.
Books
Supercharged Sex and Corporate Control in a Queer Erotic Novel
In My Wet Hot Drone Summer, anti-surveillance activists defeating corporate overlords is strangely sexy.
Interview
A Museum for Our Postnatural Age
The Center for PostNatural History’s mission is to collect, document, and study living organisms that have been intentionally altered by people.
Art
25 Years After an Obscenity Trial, Cincinnati Reflects on Robert Mapplethorpe
CINCINNATI — What do you think of when you hear the name “Robert Mapplethorpe?”
Poetry
Two Poems by William Lessard
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected two poems by William Lessard for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
A Game Where You Host Corporate-Sponsored Pride Parades
Nothing smacks of pinkwashing more than a corporate-sponsored pride parade.
Art
Incarcerated Artists Draw Portraits of America's Corporate Criminals
Some of the portraits seem fit for the walls of a boardroom; others, the display tables of sketch artists on a boardwalk.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: people pillaged stones from the quarry where Stonehenge's giant rocks were sourced, the certificate of authenticity of a Lee Ufan painting recently sold at auction was found to be fake, and a curator bit a fellow passenger on an airplane.
News
Amid the 2016 World Press Photo Contest Winners, a Focus on Refugees
A picture by Australian photographer Warren Richardson was crowned the World Press Photo of the Year 2015; it shows a man passing a baby through a barbed-wire fence at the Hungarian–Serbian border.
Opinion
The Meh-tropolitan Museum of Art's Rebranding
It looks like THE MET has made a really unfortunate mistake not only on the logo, but on the entire surrounding brand system.