Books
New Monograph Explores Our State of Being Like "Characters in a Disaster Movie"
Photographer Hiroshi Watanabe describes our state of being in his new monograph as like "characters in a disaster movie."
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Will Oslo Save Its National Gallery?
A group of prominent Norwegian architects who have long opposed the Norway's new national museum building are now speaking out to save the original National Gallery, which dates to 1842.
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Wearable Sculptures, Robots, and Oculus Rift: A Showcase by Columbia College Chicago Grad Students
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An Opera of Voice, Space, and Place
In a whisper the chorus chants: “Beginning and the end, neither and the otherwise, betwixt and between, the end is the beginning.”
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19th and 20th–Century Bookplates as Deeply Personal Brands of the Home Library
As personal libraries grew in the 19th and 20th centuries, so did bookplates.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, feminism's impact on art, Cézanne at the Met, the personal experience of surveillance, John Baldessari's new show, a bridge's 50th birthday, and more.
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Photographs from an Underground Laser Laboratory
Deep beneath the University of Texas in Austin, the Texas Petawatt Laser can reach a power of 1,000 trillion watts — around 2,000 times that generated by all the country's power plants combined.
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Right-wing Protesters Attack Art Talk in Jerusalem
WEST JERUSALEM — In retrospect, we were complacent. We thought that the opposition would fade away by the time of the event, or at most, the action would amount to a polite protest vigil.
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"Pure Shit" Wins People’s Choice Vote in Storefront’s Critical Halloween 2014
The “People’s Choice” award for this year’s Storefront for Art and Architecture‘s Critical Halloween Costume Competition goes to the people at Robert A.M. Stern Architects for “Pure Shit.”
Film
Dismantling the Higher Ed Swindle
Last week, Pioneer Works hosted a film screening of documentarian Andrew Rossi’s Ivory Tower followed by a panel discussion about the increasing cost, complex ideological underpinnings, and social dynamics of higher education in the United States.
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Airbnb Lets You Spend A Night Aboard A Decked Out KLM Plane
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Norway Unveils Landscape-Inspired Passports and ID Cards
Norwegians will soon have a wonderful reason to renew their passports. Just weeks after Norway's central bank revealed its new, abstract currency, the National Police Directorate (NPD) announced that Neue Design Studio has won a competition to reimagine the country's travel documents and identity ca