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Artist Ticked Off at Watchmaker's Unauthorized Use of His Work
The Saudi artist Ahmed Mater is suing watchmaker Swatch for using one of his works to sell a luxury timepiece.
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Architecture that Integrates the Human Body
PARIS — The Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris commemorates its 30th anniversary with “Musings on a Glass Box,” a two-part immersive installation by controversial New York design studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro that nearly empties the museum’s ground floor.
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Miniature Landscapes Through the Looking Glass
Brooklyn-based artist Patrick Jacobs’s aptly titled show Come Closer to Me, at Williamsburg gallery Pierogi, beckons visitors to do just that — to step closer in order to discern extraordinarily detailed etchings of fungal rings and take in miniature pastoral landscapes.
Opinion
The Utopian Dreams Behind the US Army's Prefab Prison Cells
This past November, the US Army discreetly announced that it is looking to develop “a holding cell for one detainee during combat operations.”
Books
Endless Enemies: Photographing Military Training Targets around the World
A 30-year-old memory of a metal figure riddled with bullet holes, standing in the furrows of a German field, finally persuaded photographer Herlinde Koelbl to investigate what military training targets look like around the world.
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The Minimalist Beauty of a Renaissance-Era Geometry Book
Perspectiva Corporum Regularium (Perspective of regular solids), created in 1568 by German goldsmith and printmaker Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508–1585), is a study in shapes inspired by the five Platonic solids: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
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A Century After Being Cast into the River Thames, a Celebrated Typeface Reemerges
Nearly a century after all 2,600 pounds of it were cast into the murky water of London's River Thames, what remains of the lost Doves Press type has been recovered by divers.
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5 Trendsetting Video Games from IndieCade East
This past weekend, the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens hosted Indiecade East 2015 for its third year of independent games, talks, and community networking.
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Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It, Is to Read This Book in 24 Hours
Increasingly, the simple act of reading may not be flashy enough to compete with televised competitors.
Books
A Contemporary Codex Teaches Children About Migration
Migrant appropriates the vertical, accordion-bound form of a pre-Colombian codex to tell of a Central American family’s freight train journey to the United States.
Art
Larry Sultan's Faux-tographs
LOS ANGELES — Larry Sultan: Here and Home at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the first large-scale retrospective of the American photographer, who died in 2009.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a chance to preview six experimental operas, East of Borneo's latest Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, seductive cinematic paintings by Judith Eisler, and much more.