News
Inside the Skeleton of Rem Koolhaas's Under-Construction Miami Beach Forum
MIAMI BEACH — A new cultural center designed by Rem Koolhaas with OMA is aiming to give Miami Beach a year-round multidisciplinary arts hub.
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Tate Modern’s Absorbing but Haphazard Look at Global Pop Art
LONDON — The World Goes Pop is an exhilarating collection filled with fizzing energy, so its curatorial messiness can be forgiven.
Comics
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Phone-Holder
It's all relative.
Art
Composing a Symphony of War with Instruments and Everyday Objects
What does war sound like? For Samson Young, it’s calm, somewhat foreboding — human, organic, often silent but with bursts of technological noise.
Art
Olafur Eliasson's Sundial of Melting Icebergs Clocks In at Half-Past Wasteful
PARIS — In the aftermath of November’s terrorist attacks and the ruling Socialist Party’s meltdown following a strong first-round showing for Marine Le Pen’s far-right Front National party, I glummly went to the Place du Panthéon to see Ice Watch Paris, an exhibition of melting icebergs by Danish re
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Cash Rules Everything Around Medicine: Big Pharma Exec Buys Only Copy of New Wu-Tang Clan Album
Today a Bloomberg Business article revealed the buyer of the only copy of the new Wu-Tang Clan album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin..., to be pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli.
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Artists and Activists Sing, Spill “Oil” in Anti–Fossil Fuel Protests at the Louvre
PARIS — As leaders from around the world met here for a tenth day of climate change policy negotiations, more than a hundred activists and members of several art collectives gathered at the Louvre this afternoon to highlight the institution’s ties to the fossil fuel industry.
Announcement
Critically Acclaimed Animated Film 'Boy and the World' Opens Dec 11 at IFC Center
From the distributor that brought you Academy Award nominees Song of the Sea, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The Secret of Kells, and more comes a true work of art: the critically-acclaimed, visually electrifying musical odyssey BOY AND THE WORLD.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTA4NTkyLCJh
Art
On the Alaskan Coast, a Crowd of Human Casts Captures Our Emotional Trauma
Sixty-eight life-sized sculptures of humans — some peering towards the sky, some shrouded with downcast eyes — currently stand along the snow-covered coastline of Anchorage, Alaska.
Art
The Postmodern Political Art of 1990s Mexico City
PHILADELPHIA — In the wake of major governmental ineffectiveness following a massive earthquake in 1985, artists in Mexico City began building a vibrant DIY arts movement and searching for less traditional modes of expression.
Art
Digital Distractions: Designing a Subway and Pruning a Tree
For December, we've got a psychedelic plane ride tribute to a man who died in a crash, a paper craft city, subway line design, and tree pruning (it's fun!).
Announcement
Apply for SCI-Arc's Master of Architecture Programs by December 15
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