Art
The City and the (Giant, Blue) Cock
LONDON — Katharina Fritsch’s "Hahn/Cock," the new sculpture placed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, was unveiled on July 25th.
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Can a Town Be a Museum? The Battle Over Jim Thorpe's Bones
Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest athlete of all time, yet the sports legend has mostly been in the news of late due to his remains, which were controversially buried in a town he never visited.
Books
When the Brooklyn Bridge Was Attacked by a Tentacle Monster and Other Alternate Histories
A little known fact: a great obstacle to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge was Rosie the East River Monster, whose tentacle can be seen grasping at the completed structure in an 1883 illustration.
Community
A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — Artist studios in Charleston, Cleveland, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Monaco.
Opinion
Leaving Comments for Propagandists
OAKLAND, Calif. — Part of what makes propaganda effective is the way it uses words that collectively sound like they mean something but ultimately signal very little.
Art
Worst.Press.Release.Ever: Word Salad
Every once in a while a sentence comes along and energizes us with its singular lack of meaning, the tinny sound made by so many letters, marched into so many words, all profaning the artworks they are meant to elevate.
News
Shanghai Attempts Demolition of Artist Compound
The Chinese government has partially and improperly demolished a portion of a studio compound in Shanghai, and used non-uniformed security personnel to threaten and intimidate its occupants, Hyperallergic has learned.
Art
20 of the First Photographs of Things, from People to Hoaxes to the Moon
We've compiled a list of photographic firsts from the beginnings of photography all to way to the newest landmarks in capturing visually things which were previously imperceptible to our human eyes.
Opinion
History Meets the Strangest Animated GIFs
We dare you not to be fascinated by the wacky and amazing animated GIFs of Kevin Weird.
Art
When a Documentary Film Unveils a Massacre
In 1965–66, Indonesia’s military set off a killing spree. A new documentary film, The Act of Killing, has begun to illuminate the events in an unprecedented way.
Art
A New Vision for Chicago's Oldest Feminist Gallery
CHICAGO — The feminist art space Woman Made Gallery (WMG) is shifting its vision to one that focuses on feminism and feminist art-making as it relates to class, ethnicity and age.
Opinion
Hole-y Terror and Evolution
OAKLAND, Calif. — Many common phobias make intuitive sense. Fear of snakes, fear of spiders, fear of heights — it's easy to understand that these crippling phobias emerge from natural cautions we've inherited from millions of years of evolution.