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The Top 6 Trends at ArtPrize
Me and my artist's ArtPrize Swag Bag! Fancy spiral-bound journal, map and guidebook, green lanyard with conference-style name badge and a green rubber bracelet that reads "ARTPRIZE 2011 ARTIST." (all...
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Study: Mice Prefer Kandinsky to Mondrian
Hieronymus Bosch, “The Garden of Earthly Delights” (detail) (via Wikimedia) A recent study shows that mice can indeed have preferences to paintings, given the proper morphine reinforcement. In a paper...
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A Famed 17th-Century Elephant Drawn by Rembrandt Is Revealed to Define Her...
Rembrandt, “An Elephant” (1637), black chalk and charcoal (via British Museum) Hansken the elephant was an incredible creature. Not only could she sword fight, wave a flag, and put a hat on her head,...
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When Art Was the Scientist’s Eye: 400 Years of Natural History Illustrations
Frog dissection illustration from the book “Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium…(Natural history of the native frogs…)” from 1758 (© AMNH\D. Finnin) Before photography, the only way to bring back a...
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Duke Riley’s Pigeon Army of Cuban Cigar Smugglers
Duke Riley’s “See You at the Finish Line” at Magnan Metz Gallery (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) The United States spends billions of dollars on a balloon surveillance system on the...
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Tigers Forever: Can Nature Photography Inspire Conservation?
A camera trap captures 14-month-old sibling cubs cooling off in a watering hole. Bandhavgarh National Park, India. (Photo by Steve Winter/National Geographic) “If I win, the tiger wins,” photographer...
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To Stop the Illegal Ivory Trade, You Have to Stop the Art
A carved mammoth tusk in China, an alternative medium for some ivory carvers (photograph by Anne-Marie Bouché, via Flickr) China’s destruction of some 6.1 tons of seized ivory earlier this month may...
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Designing Safer Antlers for Finland’s Reindeers
Reindeer with reflective antlers (photograph by Anne Ollila, via Yle) Would this spooky reindeer that seems to have transported from some unearthly netherworld stop you in your tracks? That’s the hope...
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Man in Bear, Birds in Coffee Shop
Magne Klann and Lars Aurtrade’s “Piip-Show” (screenshot via Laura J. on Twitter) As Hyperallergic’s self-appointed cat correspondent, I feel an occasional duty to branch out and offer you more from the...
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Art School Animals
Man & Beast class at the New York Academy of Art (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) Viewing living anatomy is an essential component of many art educations,...
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The Beauty of Function in Creatures’ Constructions
European Red Wood Ant (Formica polyctena) nests in pine forest, Hessen, Germany (all photographs by Ingo Arndt, courtesy Abrams) From the tiny harvest mouse twisting a humble home of blades of grass,...
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The Mouse, an Unexpected and Enduring Art Muse
Shibata Zeshin, “Mouse” (19th century), lacquer on paper. (© The Trustees of the British Museum/Art Resource, NY) As one of the most common mammals on our planet, the diminutive mouse has been...
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Unwrapping the Ancient Egyptian Practice of Animal Mummification
Cat Mummy (Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, 780–390 BCE) and ibis mummy from the ibis cemetery at Abydos (Early Roman Period, 30 BCE–early 1st century CE) in ‘Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies...
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All of Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’ in One High-Resolution Flock
John James Audubon, “Louisiana Heron” (Plate 217 from ‘The Birds of America’) (courtesy Audubon Society) When the Audubon Society launched its redesigned website last month, it included gorgeous...
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A Heartbreaking Archive of Missing Pet Posters
Lost kitty Johnny from Washington, USA, in ‘Lost: Lost and Found Pet Posters from Around the World’ by Ian Phillips (courtesy Princeton Architectural Press, 2015) Taped around telephone poles and...
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An Online Sanctuary for 30 Endangered Species
Vaquita transforming into a Hawaiian Crow on “In Pieces” (all GIFs by the author for Hyperallergic) Designer Bryan James was inspired to create the online project “In Pieces” as a “reminder of the...
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The Nutty Squirrel That Dressed in Drag
Nina Leen “Tommy Tucker” (1944) (all images courtesy Daniel Cooney Fine Art, © Time, Inc.) “You can’t be friends with a squirrel — a squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit,” Sarah Jessica Parker...
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The Calm and Controversy of 12 Horses in an Art Gallery
Jannis Kounellis’s “Untitled (12 Horses)” at Gavin Brown’s enterprise (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) For a gallery with 12 horses and a line of visitors stretching out the door, Gavin...
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When Rotting Whales Were Toured as Sideshow Spectacles
Jonah the Whale Show, Rugby Fair (1954) (photo by Jack Leeson) In researching her new art project, Fiona Tan discovered an odd pamphlet advertising “The Exhibition of Jonah, the Giant Whale caught off...
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An Italian Muralist Recreates Audubon’s Journey, One Bird at a Time
Mural in progress at the Pickering Creek Audubon Sanctuary in Easton, Maryland (photo by Jessica Stewart) An Italian street artist is retracing the journey of John James Audubon that led to his...
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