Art
Seeing Fractured Explosions in Fragmented Mirrors
SAN FRANCISCO — The past year has seen many powerful, violent images.
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How Public Tours Helped Save NYC's Most Futuristic Air Terminal
Closed in 2001 with TWA's absorption by American Airlines, the TWA Flight Center designed by Eero Saarinen at JFK has been vacant ever since.
Community
A View from the Easel
Artist studios in California, Kansas, Ohio, and Italy.
Books
Grayson Perry's Art World 101
Grayson Perry's Playing to the Gallery is presented as a beginner’s guide to the machinations of the art world, though it also holds a mirror up to the so-called “certainty freaks” — members of the art world who have an axe to grind or are stubbornly set in their beliefs.
News
May Day Occupation at Guggenheim Closes Museum #GuggOccupied
At noon today, a group of artists and activists including members of G.U.L.F. unfurled a large parachute in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum, demanding to meet with a member of the institution's board of trustees to discuss the labor conditions at its Abu Dhabi site.
Art
At the New Whitney Museum, America Is Actually Very Easy to See
The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum of American Art, which opens to the public today, is predicated on the elusiveness of a cohesive and stable national identity in the United States.
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Sum of the Arts
Percentage of the Cortlandt Street NYC subway station walls that will be covered with text fragments by artist Ann Hamilton = 70
Art
Astrological Aesthetics: May 2015 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
In Brief
Americans Are Losing the Art of Signing Their Names
To some of us, the doodle in the corner of a canvas is often as interesting as the painting itself.
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An Avant-Garde Map that Enticed Fearful Customers to Air Travel
When aviation took off in the early 20th century, safety was still shaky and the public needed some convincing to get them soaring among the clouds in the noisy metal contraptions.
In Brief
Archaeologist Discovers Ancient Mayan City Built on a Grid
If you've ever found yourself lost in Manhattan, you know that city grids are a beautiful thing.
Art
The Mythic Scale of History and Labor at Spiral Jetty
ROZEL POINT, Utah — Beginning with childhood visits to the American Museum of Natural History and continuing with excursions to study rock formations throughout his adult life, Robert Smithson cultivated a lifelong obsession with natural (and human) history that explicitly informed his artwork, incl