Art
Memories of American Malls
CHICAGO — I remember my first mall — Lincolnwood Town Center just north of the Indian and Hasidic Jewish blocks of small business on Chicago’s Devon Avenue.
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Adorable Mid-Century-Inspired Theremins You Can Play
A crowd of whimsical theremins is currently residing in a Bowery gallery, ready to play out their eerie music from mid-century-inspired handmade forms.
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Reflecting on Our Mustache Moment
The epitome of our pervasive mustache culture is captured in the photography of Greg Anderson, who traveled to New Orleans to photograph the 2013 Beard and Mustache Championships.
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The Foods Forever Lost to Climate Change
A changing climate could impact the food that we eat, as alterations to the chemistry of the ocean or the world's weather have the potential to make some animals and plants extinct. The GhostFood truck simulates what this reality might be like, where the tastes of vanished foods are resurrected thro
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This Weekend: Gowanus Open Studios!
This weekend, we can't recommend anything better than to embrace the gorgeous fall weather and head out to Gowanus Open Studios, where more than 200 artists will welcome visitors into their studios. Hyperallergic is proud to be a media partner for the event.
Opinion
Detroit Sports Profit as DIA Collection Considered for Collateral
As the Detroit Institue of Arts (DIA) continues its long slide to Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's butcher block, several issues have come to light regarding the fate of its artwork and the financial context of the Detroit bankruptcy.
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A Warped World of Sad-Eyed Beauties
Last month, as supermodels and fashion designers elbowed their way through New York Fashion Week, with high glamour swamping the city and spotlights illuminating the beautiful and famous people, a small gallery in Chelsea opened a show by an exceptional Italian artist who depicts contemporary societ
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An Artist Who Merges Minimalisms
CHICAGO — Joanne Aono is a Japanese-American artist who makes work that sits somewhere at the intersection of the minimalist tradition of American art and the slightly different minimalism of Japanese culture (more on that below).
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Banksy Goes Japonaiserie in Brooklyn, Tribeca Banksy Vandalized [UPDATE 5]
Banksy's latest stencil reimagines an anonymous arch into a Japanese bridge traversed by ladies and adjacent to a bonsai.
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Repatriation Through Portraiture: Giving Narrative to Disability
Many studies of anatomy and the beauty of the human body are all about symmetry and proportions, a sort of endless steamrolling of Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" through art history. Yet that barely explores the incredible diversity of human forms. It's the "variant body" that artist Riva Lehre
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Pissing in the Windy City
CHICAGO — Little boys don't piss in rivers. They pee in picturesque ways and all look like the "Manneken Pis," a small bronze fountain sculpture of a little boy peeing forever into the fountain's basin. On view in Brussels since it was erected by Hiëronynus Duseuesnoy the Elder in 1618-ish, this scu
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How Ancient Cartographers Mapped the World We See Today
No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and Romans, yet we know that they looked to the stars and to the widening world around them and responded with their own influential cartography.