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Unsettling Psychic Photography from the 1930s
On May 15, 1934, a man named Mr. C.P. MacCarthy of Sheffield sent a letter confirming a meeting where he would "demonstrate under test conditions Fake Psychic Photography."
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Dancing Among the Dead
“If you want to survive the 19th century,” Allison Meier wryly observed, “don't get on a boat or go to the theater.” Meier, who has been giving tours of cemeteries in New York City since 2011 (and is a Hyperallergic staff writer), held aloft a lantern illuminating the granite obelisk marking the mas
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Sculpting a Nordic Landscape
BODØ, Norway — Artscape Nordland (Skulpturlandskap Nordland), an opus of site-specific sculpture in northern Norway, includes 35 works scattered throughout Nordland county (and one in Troms), made by international artists hailing from 18 countries.
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Gallery Hosts Miniature Gravity Car Race Featuring 100s of Artist-Designed Chariots
Pierogi is a Williamsburg, Brooklyn art gallery, and one of its longest-running traditions turns 20 this week: Brooklyn Gravity Racers.
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Two Weeks Into Performance, Columbia Student Discusses the Weight of Her Mattress
Last Friday afternoon, nearly 100 students rallied at Columbia University to protest the school's policy on sexual assault. They held signs, wore red tape over their mouths, and brought mattresses — almost a dozen, some of which had messages written on them in red tape.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — Just because the insanity of the start of the season is over, doesn't mean there's not a lot to see out there.
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Library of Congress Photographs Mapped into an Interactive Atlas of the Great Depression
The Library of Congress has an incredible digitized archive of Depression-era photographs, taken between 1935 and 1945 on behalf of the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information.
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Picturing Russia's Central Asian Diaspora
Travel to Russia these days, and chances are the person serving you your food is a visitor to the country, too. Every year, 5-6 million Uzbek, Tadjik and Kyrgyz people arrive in the country to work in restaurants, construction sites, farms and manufacturing plants. They are maids, taxi drivers, stre
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ArtRx NYC
This week, New York continues to celebrate the fall season, and nothing is slowing down.
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Revisiting Steve McQueen's Early Work
LOS ANGELES — In a city whose name is synonymous with the motion picture industry, it's common for the worlds of film and art to collide. It's less common, however, for them to collide in a way that's critical and not simply flirting with the idea of celebrity.
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New LA Apartment Gallery Makes Room for Conversation
LOS ANGELES — The contemporary art world often seems to be on a super-sized trajectory, with the rise of mega-galleries and record-setting auction prices all the rage.
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Artists Paddle Around Manhattan for Environmental Justice
"Sécurité, sécurité, I have 16 canoes and a marching band northbound on the East River, just north of Newtown Creek." Those were the words radioed to Vessel Traffic Services yesterday afternoon as a group of activists circumnavigated Manhattan, some in handcrafted boats made of paper.