Art
Transformative Touch: Photographs Laced with Thread
New York’s art world seems to be experiencing a newfound love affair with art made by hand — art that has, dare I say, “craft” in it.
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Art
15 Million Pages of Medical History Are Going Online
Over the next two years, the Wellcome Library, partnered with digital technology charity Jisc, is collaborating with nine institutions to put 15 million pages of 19th-century medical books online.
Art
Discovering Tutankhamun with Photographer Harry Burton
In 1922, the Egyptologist Howard Carter asked the Metropolitan Museum of Art to lend him the services of Harry Burton, a photographer then working for the Museum's Egyptian expedition.
Art
Silence Is Enough: On Emily Jacir
Silenced, erased, censored — how then to represent this loss, this nothingness?
Opinion
Going Ape Over a Photograph's Copyright
Apparently Wikimedia, the US-based organization behind Wikipedia, is refusing to remove an image of a monkey taken by … wait for it, wait for it … the monkey itself.
Poetry
"Dedication" by Wendy Xu
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Wendy Xu for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
News
Artist Claims New York Times Co. Isn't Giving Him Credit He Deserves
Released to the public two weeks ago, the New York Times's Chronicle graphing tool has been at use within the paper since it was developed in 2012 by its "Labs" research-and-development department.
Comics
Naked on the Front Porch with a Gun at 4am
How did I get there? Well …
Art
Kissing for Art's Sake
In Jedediah Johnson’s photo series The Makeout Project, he deconstructs the kiss into the essentials of the act itself.
Art
A Zoo Where Animals Run Free and Humans Are Confined
Imagine a zoo where animals are free to roam while humans quietly observe. Danish architects BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) set out to make this a reality with their plan for redesigning Zootopia, a zoo in the city of Givskud.
Art
Artifacts of a Patriarchy that Was and Wasn’t
LOS ANGELES — The Paternal Suit: Heirlooms from the F. Scott Hess Family Foundation, on view at the Long Beach Museum of Art, is an exhibition that examines the imperfect influence of patriarchs and fathers on American history and American families.
Opinion
"Liberals Are Killing Art," or Critic Jed Perl Gets Emotional
Jed Perl, a savvy polemicist far above fatuous windbag trolling, is mad as hell. Why? Because "Liberals Are Killing Art," according to the headline accompanying the art critic's latest for The New Republic.