Art
Smithsonian Brings Google Glass to the Museum
If you’re a simple layperson who’s not yet had the chance to experience the magic that is Google Glass, you may want to visit the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, starting this Saturday.
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Books
New Journal Pushes the Dialogue of Video Games and Art
There are a multitude of publications out there covering video games, from reviewing play to industry news, but a new journal is aiming to fill a void in the discussion of experimental games and art.
News
An Anthem For Uganda's Oppressed Queer Community
This past December, Uganda's Parliament passed an Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which would extend criminalization of homosexuality to life in prison and up to seven years for advocacy work. Nkoyooyo Brian decided to respond with an anthem for the country's LGBTQ community.
Interview
Artists Pick Artists: Claire Sherman
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of interviews with artists that will continue indefinitely, without direction, and without any one person's control. The artists are asked seven question about their art and their ideas about art.
Art
Guatemala's Indigenous Community Expresses Concern Over New Maya Museum
While the initial news of the new Maya museum in Guatemala was greeted with blind optimism by the media, a preliminary investigation by Hyperallergic into the realities of the proposed museum raises some serious questions about the exclusion of indigenous voices from the museum, the proposed museum
Art
Art Rx
This week, New York keeps things interesting. Try out a couple of artist talks, a one-night-only exhibition, documentary films, and high school horror.
Art
From Mapping Solar Potential to Mapping the American Empire
SAN FRANCISCO — According to Cliff Chen, a senior energy analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, if a solar power system were built in the American Southwest it would apparently only need to be 100 miles by 100 miles to provide enough energy to power the entire United States.
Books
All the Feelings: Jennifer Doyle’s 'Hold It Against Me'
What is included in the field of a work of art? The medium may be painting or performance, the subject matter may be landscapes or the death of a lover, and the aesthetics may come from a particular tradition or vein of art. But beyond that, when we discuss a work of art, what else can or should be
Opinion
Actors Re-Create YouTube Comment Wars
With notable exceptions, I tend to think of most internet comment sections as a kind of hell. In that scheme, YouTube comments would comprise their own circle. But, really, why get angry or upset about YouTube comments when you could simply laugh?
Art
On Sochi, 'Queer' Art, Fashion, and Activism
On Friday night at the Louis B. James gallery, in a spare white room, a predominantly white and relatively good-looking American Apparelesque crowd gathered under the auspices of queer-art-fashion-activism for the launch of the Purple and Gold capsule collection.
Art
Fighting for the Future of St. Mark's Bookshop
“There are too many good bookstores in Brooklyn,” Bob Contant said. Contant is one of two co-owners of St. Mark’s Bookshop, the embattled last independent bookstore standing in the East Village. He was explaining to me why he wouldn’t consider a move to what’s generally deemed New York’s most litera
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Garis & Hahn Presents Jomar Statkun's 'Banal Zone'
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