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Made in Cuba but Exhibited in LA
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — As US–Cuba relations begin to thaw, a pop-up art show continues the decades-long work of cultural diplomacy by Cuban artists.
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Hand-Cut Newspaper Mosaics Slow Down Our Reading
When she approaches a newsstand, Montreal-based artist Myriam Dion often buys 20 copies of that day's paper — at times, even more than that.
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An Artist Persists in Syria in a Time of War
HONG KONG — What does it feel like to be an artist as the art and architecture of your culture is systematically being obliterated?
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Prosthetic Devices for the Modern Psyche
Susanna Hertrich is as much a designer and researcher as she is an artist; her show at Art Laboratory Berlin constructs a narrative in which human senses, instincts, and emotions are prosthetically enhanced to better suit the specific challenges of the 21st century.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of magnetic tape recordings in museums and other archives that won't be possible to digitize in 20 years due to changing technology and disintegration = 46,000,000
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A Lakota Sioux Warrior's Eyewitness Drawings of Little Bighorn
One of the most popular images of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn is "Custer's Last Stand" by Cassilly Adams, who ditched historical accuracy for a romanticized George Armstrong Custer standing tall against the encroaching horde of horseback warriors.
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When Hens Look Like Maleviches
There is no perfect word or glossary to describe where Laura Lima takes art.
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Join Hyperallergic for Conversations About Spectacle, Performance, and the Miami Art Scene at PULSE
This year, we're excited to announce that we've teamed up with PULSE Miami Beach to present two exciting discussions as part of the PULSE PERSPECTIVES series.
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From Henry Clay Frick to Gilded Matzah, Observing the World in Glass Cases
PHILADELPHIA — Upon entering Joshua Reiman’s inventive new show Glass Houses at the Napoleon Gallery, the first thing that strikes you is one of sound rather than vision: a steady, persistent drip-drip-drip of water into a tank.
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The Elusive Painter Who Predicted Minimalism in the Mid 1950s
John Ferren did not so much work outside the mainstream as circle it continuously in a personal and highly meditative quest for meaning.
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Hanging 19th-Century Japanese and Western Masters Side by Side
SAN FRANCISCO — Claude Monet owned more than 200 Japanese prints and once told a critic, “If you insist on forcing me into an affiliation with anyone else ... then compare me with the old Japanese masters; their exquisite taste has always delighted me.”
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An Interactive Timeline of Human History According to Wikipedia
A new data visualization tool called Histography transforms Wikipedia's entries on historic events into an interactive timeline