Books
It seems like every few decades there is a mainstream revival for the occult and esoteric. Not that it ever fades away, but there is a periodic surge in fascination with the unknowable, the rites, rituals, and art that make up its history.
Art
CHICAGO — There's an archetypal monster in your mind, and his name is Frankenstein. In a lecture presented this past Saturday, November 9, at the Chicago Humanities Festival, Heather Keenleyside discussed this notorious monster in relation to this year's theme "Animal: What Makes Us Human?"
Opinion
How can we document culture? Two recent articles shed light on different ways to document often unheard or at least less-heard voices and perspectives.
Art
“One point of art is that it’s forming something we don’t have the language for yet,” observes Jake Yuzna, Director of Public Programs at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), in discussing the FUN Conference on Nightlife as Social Practice.
News
The commercial arena for books, though less in tune with the sensibilities of tycoons and autocrats than the world of art, is nonetheless defined by a manichean struggle pitting independent publishers and booksellers against retail and publishing conglomerates.
Art
Louis Daguerre may have his name most linked to the groundbreaking photographic process he created — the daguerreotype — but the French inventor hardly stopped there with his experiments with imaging.
Performance
Experiencing "The Humans" does require some stamina, as it's a three-hour long play that often dips into follies that can drag a bit long. Yet if you're interested in theater, the influences of art's obsession with forms, Shakespeare, Wodehouse, and scatological humor wrapped around a frame of the G
Giveaways
Hyperallergic is giving you the chance to win your own copy of The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti! Five lucky winners will receive a copy of the new book The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti and three K-60 Paint Markers from Krink.
Performance
It's difficult to create art about white privilege. Though one can easily enough declare that white privilege is bad, distilling all its paradoxes into a poignant artistic image is challenging. And when an artist succeeds, it commands attention.
Art
As the 100th anniversary year of the 1913 Armory Show winds down, it's worth taking a look at an exhibition in Texas that may not directly corral together the scandalous and shocking art of that first burst of modernism into the Americas, but just as strongly shows how the waves of Cubism, Futurism,
Performance
LOS ANGELES — A train station is an apt location to tell stories of journeys to lands unknown, particularly when the storytelling method is as unconventional and frontier-pushing as the one deployed in Invisible Cities.
Opinion
A radical plan is afoot in Switzerland. A public referendum is on the way, in which people will vote on the possibility of giving every citizen a fixed monthly income.