Art
New Algorithm Turns the Emotion of Language into Music
The future of e-books, or any electronic text, may be soundtracked. A new experiment in automation is generating music in response to the emotion of words in literature.
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Two Street Artists and Artist Collective Labeled Terrorists in Egypt
Finnish street artist Sampsa and Egyptian street artist Ganzeer are being labeled as "terrorists" by various Egyptian media outlets, but why?
Art
Art Rx
This week, we're gearing up for the 2014 Bushwick Open Studios, but there's also lots of other stuff you should know about, including a modern American lit exhibit at the Morgan, Pre-Raphaelite art of the Metropolitan Museum, and a special screening of Metropolis that includes live music.
Opinion
Gagosian Wants You to Shop Small?
The Madison Avenue Gagosian shop has a sign encouraging you to "Shop Small." Um, what?
Art
The Last Selfie
LOS ANGELES — It’s the end of selfies as we know it. Dearest selfie fanatics, this will be my last story for the Hyperallergic selfie column; after one year of chronicling the selfie’s rise to fame, we collectively decided to let this investigation go off into the netherlands of internet data trails
Opinion
From Dalí to Leonardo on the Backs of Playing Cards
When Brazilian artist Sōnia Menna Barreto was a teenager in São Paulo, her mother used to stay up all night long playing cards with her friends. That memory sunk into Barreto's consciousness, surfacing in a surreal series of trompe l’oeil paintings the artist has been creating over the last few year
Comics
An Artist's Holiday
Working hard … hardly working …
Art
Cosmic Ceramics and Hunting Trophies Collide in Paris
PARIS — The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris is continuing its exhibitions among its hunting trophies and old world décor with Lin Utzon's Cosmic Dance.
Art
Lucio Fontana's Proto-Technologism
PARIS — If you want to leave all imagery behind for a free-fall into the immersive deep space of the virtual, Lucio Fontana is your quintessential man.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Glasgow's Macintosh building is mostly saved, a meditation on the essence of video games, background on the Joe Scanlan/Donelle Woolford project, the World Cup goes viral, the legacy of Anthony Caro, a giant golden calf piñata, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Multiple
Good news for a change: this week, Hyperallergic's Jillian Steinhauer covered the opening of McNally Jackson's Picture Room on Mulberry Street in Manhattan, a new shop "devoted to prints, editions, posters, and art and artists’ books."
Poetry
Adrift in the Blue Yonder: Peter Gizzi's Selected Poems
After steadily increasing for much of the twentieth century, and especially after World War II, real wages for the average worker in the United States have remained stagnant since around 1978, if in fact they haven’t slightly declined. At the time of this economic shift, Peter Gizzi was somewhere be