A Floating, Abandoned Building Will Become a Space for Khmer Art

Located in what was a massive floating hotel in the Kingdom of Wonder, The Boat could become a thriving center for arts and culture in Cambodia. Floating on the edge of Phnom Penh, where the Mekong meets the Tonlé Sap River, the nonprofit organization plans to focus on displaying Khmer art. Dana Langlois,

Central Tejo; rostos do passado

No último quartel do século XIX, Lisboa, à imagem do que acontecia nas principais cidades Europeias, era uma cidade em plena expansão e o consumo da electricidade foi também acompanhando o ritmo de urbanização da cidade: primeiro, substituindo o gás na iluminação pública, depois os motores eléctricos foram progressivamente ganhando vantagem na indústria e por fim as casas mais abastadas iniciavam a era do uso doméstico da electricidade.

A Century-Old Spanish Church Transforms into an Art-Filled Skate Park

In 1912, when Asturian architect Manuel del Busto designed Church of Santa Barbera, in the Spanish town of Llanera, the skateboard hadn’t yet been invented. So even in his wildest dreams, the architect likely never imagined this place of worship would one day be filled with half-pipes instead of pews, kickflipping skaters instead of a devout congregation, and rainbow-colored murals instead of Jesus paintings

As Metamorfoses de David Bowie

Graffitis no meio Urbano

Quando dos meus passeios por Algés, deparei-me subitamente com uns Graffitis de grande nivel artístico, encaixados no meio de prédios. Estes Graffitis tinham a teoria da Relatividade de Albert Einstein como pano de fundo, os além de outros simbolos retidos nas paredes. Muito interessante para ser partilhado por quem se interessa por Arte Urbana, cujas Galerias são os espaços publicos, onde todos, podem apreciar e vivenciar.

Rescuing an Obscure Photographic Archive of Early 20th-Century Argentina

When German-born photographer Annemarie Heinrich opened her first studio in 1930, her adopted country of Argentina was experiencing a time of change from old cultural practices to industrialization. Heinrich took hundreds of photographs of this transformation in Buenos Aires and across South America from the 1930s t

A Book of Art and Essays Explores Psychedelics as a Spiritual Technology

The intersections between Eastern philosophy and psychedelic drugs are explored in Zig Zag Zen, a newly expanded edition of an anthology of essays, interviews, and artwork.

Eva Armisen na Galeria Arte Periférica em Lisboa

"O CORAÇÃO NA CABEÇA"- "ELCORAZÓN EN LA CABEZA "

Heavy Metal Headbangers Frozen in Time

With hair flying and faces contorted in expressions between joy and agony, the heavy metal fans captured by Danish photographer Jacob Ehrbahn are a frenzy of movement in saturated color.

Modeling Life, Death, and Eternity in the Ancient Americas

Chimú palace model with figures, found at Huaca de la Luna, Peru (1440–1665 CE), wood cotton, and shell. Themodel shows a ritual in the palace courtyards, with the three larger figures thought to represent mummies. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)

Miniature mummies carved from wood and carefully wrapped in tiny shrouds overlook a model of a Chimú palace, one of the small-scale representations of a lost precolonial world in Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas