Comics
Ikea and the End of the World
Sometime next month, a shipping container slips overboard into the North Atlantic.
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Art
Making Art Feel at Home
The two rooms of Jason McCoy Gallery currently feature works spanning a wide variety of styles and mediums — from functional design objects, such as wallpaper and stools, to charcoal drawings and fine art textiles — for the group show Domesticity.
Opinion
A Talk Show About Art
For its first original web series, Ovation TV has launched a talk show about art called Touching the Art. And why not?
Opinion
When Reality TV Imitates Art
Sometimes "homage" is the only way to understand things.
Art
ArtRx LA
This week Los Angeles seems to be all about performance and performativity.
Opinion
Spike Lee Draws Out the Parallels Between Art and Life (and Death)
Does art imitate life, or is it the other way around?
Interview
Unpacking the Medicated Motherhood Mystique
CHICAGO — On February 13, I found myself in the back seat of a bus in Chicago with the artist Marni Kotak. We felt comfortable in the back of the bus. We are those kinds of women.
Poetry
"Sideward & Leisurely Crumbles the Heart’s Presidio" by Michael Robins
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected a poem by Michael Robins for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Community
A View from the Easel
Artist studios from California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Mississippi.
Art
How a Turn-of-the-Century Painter Influenced Military Camouflage
The newest exhibition at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York examines the influence of nature on military camouflage.
In Brief
Archeologists Find Possible Ancient Cat Costume in Peru
Archeologists in Peru have discovered the 1,500-year-old tomb of a Moche nobleman, which they say could shed further light on the pre-Inca civilization. Along with some things you might expect to find in an archeological dig was a curious pair of metal feline paws with sharp claws.
Art
Early High-Speed Photographs Offer Incredible Details of Motion
Back in the 1930s, an electrical engineer from Nebraska, working at MIT, developed the first "strobe" flash for photography, changing the way motion is documented.