News
The Library of Congress Is Uploading 75 Years of Poetry and Literature Recordings
Yesterday selections from the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress became available to stream online for the first time.
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Interview
Why Liberate Tate Joined the #WhitneyPipeline Protests
I interviewed a member of Liberate Tate as to why the group decided to take part in the #WhitneyPipeline protests and what it has accomplished in its own struggle with the Tate.
Art
I Visited the Tate (in Minecraft)
The widely beloved open world video game of Minecraft will now offer a new activity for its players to explore: interactive artworks presented by the Tate, the third installment of which was just released last week.
Poetry
"Guns on the Table" by Rosebud Ben-Oni
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Rosebud Ben-Oni for his series [http://hyperallergic.com/tag/hyperallergic-poetry/] that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Art
Gallery Uses Augmented Reality to Exhibit Modern Art
LOS ANGELES — At galleries and museums, art is increasingly competing for attention with the needy screens of visitors’ cell phones, but at the Echo Park storefront gallery Smart Objects, staring at your cell phone is the only way to appreciate the art.
Art
Reading Years for On Kawara
I have passed through 700 years in a single hour.
Art
The Living, Small-Scale Portraits of Alice Neel
Like her paintings, Alice Neel’s watercolors and drawings, now showing at David Zwirner, wobble and tilt out of proportion, only more so.
Art
Revamped Textile Museum in DC Weaves Together Historic and Contemporary Fabrics
WASHINGTON, DC — When you think of textiles in museums, you inevitably imagine old things: musty rooms, faded colors, grandiose tapestries or thread-bare fragments, and fussy, protective installations.
Comics
I Like It, So What?!
When I was a kid, being different was terrifying.
Art
Human Nests and Other Highlights of African Design
Designer Porky Hefer's organic capsules are part of Grains of Paradise: Contemporary African Design in collaboration with Southern Guild, a group exhibition at a gallery specializing in contemporary design.
Art
Making Sense of Paintings That Tell Snippets of Stories
The narrative impulse in painting is nothing new.
Art
The Many Faces of Abraham Lincoln Impersonators
When Greta Pratt photographed the annual meeting of the Association of Lincoln Presenters in 2004, she plunked a chair down in a field for attendees to sit in and told them, “I want you to summon up your inner Lincoln.”