Interview
Meet the Syrian Artist Painting on Mortar Shells
With canvas in short supply, Akram Abou al-Fouz paints on the shells scattered around his neighborhood in Douma. "We had shelling showers, so to speak," he says.
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Opinion
Copying an eBook from Cover to Cover
Artist Jesse England’s piece “E-Book Backup” (2014) is a literal copy — a photocopy, from cover to cover — of a Kindle version of George Orwell’s 1984.
Opinion
CIA Copies Star Wars for Aborted Osama bin Laden Propaganda Doll
American propaganda has come a long way since genteel writer Peter Mathieesen founded The Paris Review as part of his CIA gig in postwar France. The Washington Post today reported that the intelligence agency tapped Donald Levine, the seasoned former Hasbro executive responsible for G.I. Joe, to cre
In Brief
A 26-Foot Marilyn Monroe Sculpture Meets Its End in a Chinese Dump
News sites have been abuzz today with a few fantastic photographs that show a giant sculpture of Marilyn Monroe face-down in the dirt at a Chinese dump.
Art
Message Scent: Smell Phone Makes History
It wasn't quite as Earth-shaking as Marconi's 1901 cross-Atlantic radio transmission or Alexander Graham Bell yapping at this assistant on the first telephone call in 1876, but this week the 21st century got its inaugural transatlantic scent message.
Art
A Shock of Color in the City
PHILADELPHIA — There are two public works on view in the Northeast right now by the Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse. One, in Philadelphia, zips past as you ride a moving train; the other, in Brooklyn, inspires you to stand still and look closely.
Poetry
Three Poems by Dara Wier
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected three poems by Dara Wier for his series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
Comics
Fox Puppies and a New Cartoon Me
Another week at the Spruceton Inn … just shave my beard …
Opinion
Shocker: Sontag FBI File Contains Comic Sans
The Freedom of Information Act request-processing website MuckRock has obtained and published Susan Sontag's Federal Bureau of Investigation file. The document comprises 73 pages of letters and memoranda dating from 1968 through 1972, noting in mind-numbing detail the late intellectual's various app
Art
Making the Cut: Remembering Warren Lyons
LOS ANGELES — In the late fifties and early-to-mid-1960s, when my father came to New York and checked into the Royalton for stays that varied in length from a few days to several weeks, he would run into his friend Leonard Lyons, the New York Post gossip columnist, who invariably wrote an item or tw
Art
Debuts Distinguish BAMcinemaFest 2014
Opening tonight with the New York premiere of Boyhood, Richard Linklater's highly anticipated coming-of-age tale, the sixth incarnation of BAMcinemaFest finds the festival itself approaching maturity.
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News
As World Cup Takes Spotlight, Brazilian Police Attack Artists and Activists [UPDATED]
Yesterday, the soccer team of World Cup host Brazil played, and tied with, Mexico. But on the same day that Brazilian players were proudly representing their country on the field in the northern city of Fortaleza, some 450 miles south, military police attacked nonviolent protestors in Recife, the co