Art
2012 was a great year for digital art. As Tumblr rocketed over 25 million hits a month and Instagram became a new venue for creative expression, artists continued to traverse the internet's sprawling landscape and confront us with the weirdness of our own experiences of virtual space. In this end-of
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What a year. Highs, lows, and bloopers. Here is our take on the art, architecture, and design drama that was.
Opinion
Afghan designer Massoud Hassani has created an elegant, efficient solution for a horrific, violent problem: His Mine Kafon is a wind-powered device made from plastic and bamboo that triggers land mines without hurting civilians.
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What significance does a single image have in visual culture? The postcard, that old redoubt of tourists in need of a (semi-ironic) memento to send back home, doesn't play such an active role in our contemporary aesthetics, but it once did.
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This week, while the art world may have hopped off the Miami return flight with her eyeliner running like she just stumbled out of the Shore Club, it didn't stop her from pounding more champagne and living off passed cupcakes by Melissa as she made her rounds on the Holiday Party circuit.
Opinion
While we at Hyperallergic pride ourselves for our quality and engaging posts, we are also always amused to find out what becomes popular online and brings us oodles of eyeballs. People often ask me "what makes a popular story" and while some things are predictable (SHOCK! CONTROVERSY! O MY!) others
News
Just a few days ago, Egyptian voters passed an Islamist-backed constitution by a fairly narrow margin, but as the New York Times points out, the political fight is far from over — and along with it, a battle over the future of arts and culture in the country.
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It makes sense that police, parents, teachers, and pretty much everyone would be extra vigilant after the horrific elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. But in Galloway Township, New Jersey, a high school student was arrested after simply doodling pictures of weapons in his notebook.
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The High Line has a reputation for being an artsy park, located as it is partly in the Chelsea gallery neighborhood, with rotating art exhibitions and sculpture and video installations. But apparently the park isn't quite as arts-friendly as it would have us believe: a week and a half ago, an art ve
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BERKELEY, California — This election year both candidates used overly aestheticized imagery for their campaigns, but what is the place for quality art in our democracy?
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It's a funny thing to see one of the heroes of modern art at work. Viewing Matisse: In Search of True Painting at the Metropolitan Museum is kind of like watching a YouTube video of Pablo Picasso painting. The artistic act is present and impressive — you are seeing a great painter create great art i
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