Art
Newly Discovered Photographs Show an Abstract Expressionist Thanksgiving
Jason Andrew of the Estate of Jack Tworkov recently uncovered a new cache of Thanksgiving photographs featuring some of the leading Abstract Expressionists.
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Some Doritos with Your Goya? Old Master Still Lifes Get an Update
With a bit too much time on my hands and a subscription to Adobe Photoshop I have been playing with an idea: what will happen to traditional still life paintings when elements from contemporary life are grafted into them?
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How a Rare Judas Painting Survived the 16th-Century English Reformation
During the Protestant Reformation in 16th century Europe, Puritan iconoclasts destroyed an estimated 97% of religious art in England during the English Civil War.
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Keith Haring in Corn, and Other Artistic Thanksgiving Plates
This Thanksgiving, up your plating game and with some artist-inspired dishes courtesy of San Francisco-based artist Hannah Rothstein.
Art
Rose Petal Mandalas, Queer Trauma, and Spiritually Intense Blowjobs
VIENNA — How to tell the story of these exhibitions, filled with so many works by AA and his friends and collaborators, including installations, collaborative works, performances, and even an exhibition within the exhibition?
Comics
The Hunt for Ideas
Sometimes, if you're lucky, they land at your feet.
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Happy Thanksgiving from Hyperallergic!
Thanks to artist Faith Holland for serving up Thanksgiving to Hyperallergic readers.
Books
A Photographic Index of Illicit Objects Seized at the US Border
On the cover of Taryn Simon's Contraband is the corpse of a bird of prey, its body contorted over a nondescript envelope that was marked "home décor" and on its way from Indonesia to Miami, Florida, when it was seized at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Art
The Wonderland of Swedish Wooden Toys
From delicate dollhouses to globally recognized puzzles to small animal figurines, the vast variety of toys that have emerged from Sweden over time are more than just playthings.
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Robert Doisneau's Photographs of the Paris Natural History Museum During the Nazi Occupation
From 1942 to 1943, while Paris was occupied by Nazi Germany, photographer Robert Doisneau documented the ongoing work of the scientists in the city's natural history museum.
Art
A Google Doc Turns into a Massive Open-Sourced Art Project
"I wondered if it would be possible to create a community out of a single document," artist Matthew Britton tells Hyperallergic.
Art
How Audubon Pranked a Fellow Naturalist with a Bulletproof Fish
Field books capture essential information for ecological history but are often difficult to track down in scientific collections.