Art
A Landmark Modernist House Needs a Home
A small house that once heralded the arrival of Le Corbusier–style architecture in the United States needs a home, but its potential new neighbors aren't terribly keen on the structure's stark modernism.
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Disrupt NSA Surveillance With This Typeface
As a reaction to government surveillance, the ZXX typeface is embedded with disruptive designs that are meant to combat optical character recognition processes. The four options for online communications camouflage — called XED, Noise, False, and Camo — each have characteristics that keep them legib
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AbEx Redux: The Clyfford Still You May Not Know
Best known as the man responsible for the massive Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: A Catalogue Raisonné, British art historian David Anfam has more recently been focusing on another mid-20th-century American artist, Clyfford Still, whose flame-like works that have their own luminosity. "You can tur
Opinion
A Map, Not a Territory: Apple and the End of Skeuomorphism
In an influential special issue of Scientific American appearing in 1991, the computer scientist Mark Weiser wrote of the challenges in integrating computers to “the natural human environment” such that they “vanish into the background.” Though not quite a theory of user interface design, Weiser’s n
Opinion
Is That Your Cat on the Caro Sculpture?
We're instinctively taught not to touch the art by stern museum guards and gallery attendants that drill into you the idea that it is untouchable, literally, but imagine my surprise when I visited the home of New York critic and curator Karen Wilkin and saw her cats really loving her sculpture colle
Art
Gleaning the Fields of Memory to Create Form
Upon entering 287 Spring to see Not Past: Old Toys and Lost Friends, a solo exhibition by artist Brian Fernandes-Halloran. one is confronted with two sculptural re-creations of toys the artist remembers playing with when he was growing up, a truck and a red hammer. Fernandes-Halloran’s work is compo
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Shards of an Artist's Utopia at the New Wellin Museum
Unless you live in Utica or Clinton, New York, there’s a decent chance you haven’t heard of the Wellin Museum. Opened last fall on the campus of Hamilton College, the Wellin comes on the heels of some two decades of planning for the school’s first art museum. Luckily, it seems to have been worth the
Opinion
Frank Gehry Appreciates the Patronage of 'Benevolent Dictators'
In an interview appearing in the current issue of Foreign Policy and posted to the publication's website on Monday, Frank Gehry admitted that he was "reluctant" to participate in the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project, citing the distance and the fact that the "cultural issues seemed so different."
Art
Calling All Artists: Apply for the 6th Annual Governors Island Art Fair
Hyperallergic is pleased to announce that we are the exclusive media partner to this year's Governors Island Art Fair, the fifth annual iteration of New York's largest independent art fair. We are also thrilled to present this open call for works running through July 1.
Opinion
US Supreme Court Strikes Down Anti-Gay Marriage Law, Let's Celebrate with Art
In a landmark 5-4 ruling, the US Supreme Court has ruled that DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) is unconstitutional. In celebration of this landmark ruling, we've collected some art works that explore the realities and anxieties around gay marriage.
Art
Vice and Virtue: Helmut Newton's World Without Men
BERLIN — A week ago, Vice magazine gambled on a potentially-sexist-but-potentially-thought-provoking fashion spread — and lost. “Last Words” featured fictionalized portraits of female authors looking unaccountably sexy moments before or after their suicides: a slender Sylvia Plath poised before an o