Louise Bourgeois Shares Her Deepest Secrets
NY Times - Writings by the artist, exhibited for the first time in the United States, reveal the psychological trauma that fueled her creativity. - read more ...
What the “Nefertiti Hack” Tells Us About Digital Colonialism
Hyperallergic - For millions of viewers since then, Borchardt’s recommendation has been taken to heart. Created around 1340 BCE and weighing 44 pounds, the captivating polychromatic bust was unveiled to the pub...
How Plywood From Last Year’s Protests Became Art
NY Times - During the George Floyd marches last year, businesses boarded up. This year, hundreds of those boards will be displayed in exhibitions in Minneapolis, New York and Chicago. - read more...
A project created to document chaos: “because we live in a strange world”
domus - An Instagram profile that captures the obscure, surrealistic side of world news: it's an editorial project born digital to become more than that, and also a reflection of its creator. Or maybe just jour...
Bit.Bio.Bot exhibition shows how algae can be used as air purifiers and protein source
de zeen - Combining architecture and microbiology, the exhibition shows how city dwellers could purify the air, sequester carbon, gain a sustainable food source and enjoy a greater connection to nature by cult...
Lucy McRae creates cushion machine to offer lab-grown humans a womb experience
de zeen - Los Angeles-based McRae imagines it could compensate for a lack of human contact in early life, which could become a reality in the near future. - read more ...
A New $260 Million Park Floats on the Hudson. It’s a Charmer.
NY Times - Little Island, developed by Barry Diller, with an amphitheater and dramatic views, opens on Hudson River Park. Opponents battled it for years. - read more
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diana scherer’s intricately patterned roots could be a carbon capturing eco-material
designboom - After perfecting processes of manipulating plant roots into intricate, textile-like patterns, diana scherer explores her work’s potential as an applied material. - read more ...
Portraits of Dante
domus - “Worldly repute is but a breath of wind, which cometh now from here, and now from there, and shifts its name, because its quarter shifts” - read more ...
New Collections: Pandemic Oral History Project
Smithsonian Magazine - To document the cascade of public health, social, and financial crises set in motion by COVID-19, the Archives of American Art developed an oral history series that recorded responses to ...