Art
Resting in Pieces: The Scattered Fate of Closed Museums
As interests shift and funding dwindles, it can be hard to keep a museum open. And after a museum ends its run and its building is shuttered, what happens to the collections?
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Considering Errors, Omissions, and Mistakes in Art
Like the episodic Richard Brautigan novel from which the show draws its name, Franklin Street Works' Kool-Aid Wino is a playful yet sincere riff on the slapdash, crooked, and obscure virtue of errors.
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Voyager Has Left the Solar System, Taking With it the Sounds of Space
As Voyager becomes the first human-made object to enter interstellar space, it also carries the first human-made mixtape destined for such depths of the universe.
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A Portrait of Mass Transit Through Its Bus Drivers
The identity of any city is reflected in its mass transit, and who better to communicate it than the transit operators themselves?
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Drawing on Urban Life with the Body
I've always been fascinated with the ancient Western story of the origin of art and that immediately came to mind at the performance of Susan Hefuna and Luca Veggetti's "NOTATIONOTATIONS" (2013).
Interview
How Art Is Helping Children in One Syrian Refugee Camp
Hyperallergic speaks with UNICEF Jordan's Deputy Representative Michele Servadei to delve into the question of child programming at Za'atari, both in the arts and education more generally. Accompanying her answers below are photographs of artworks produced by Syrian children aged 12-18 at the camp,
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The Obsession With Mapping New York City's Past
People in New York City seem to have a particular fixation with mapping the past.
Interview
Searching for the Switzerland of India
NASHVILLE — Photographer and video artist Christine Rogers didn't intend to end up in India on a Fulbright Scholarship searching for a folkloric "heaven on earth" known as the Switzerland of India.
Art
Sight, Sound, and the Colors of Perception
Many viewers are coming across the work of Norwegian-born, New York–based artist Anne Katrine Senstad at the 55th Venice Bienniale. Senstad’s work is on view in the Officina delle Zattere, as part of the group exhibition Metamorphoses of the Virtual - 100 Years of Art and Freedom. Her work deals wit
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How to Talk About Art: Brevity Is Not Sol LeWitt Edition (#H2TAA)
Did I hear you sigh with half relief/half regret thinking you would never have to talk about Sol LeWitt again? Poor fool, that time will never come!
Opinion
An Incredible Archive of American Folk Music
"If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll … ”
Interview
Queer Freakazoid Liberator Goddess: Dionysus for the 21st Century
You’ve probably heard of Dionysus, an Olympian god with a reputation for being a badass. What you didn’t know about him, however, is that he’s also your new androgynous goddess, ready to liberate all who grace his presence through the power of dance, ritual, magic, and music. When I happened upon Za