A brief, unofficial history of recent passive-aggressive design
The Architecture Newspaper -This article is part of The Architect’s Newspaper’s “Passive Aggressive” feature on passive design strategies. Not to be confused with “Passivhaus” or “Passive House” certificat...
Hearst’s New Content Platform Is Part News Feed, Part Art Installation
Ad Week - The owner of Cosmopolitan, Elle and Esquire, Hearst is known for its globally-recognized media brands. But for its latest content play, the company is keeping things close to home. On Sept. 27, the ...
50 Museum Directors Sign Letter Supporting Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Artnet News - The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s historic battle to stop the Dakota Access pipeline has attracted international attention, galvanizing public discussion about environmental justice and Native Ameri...
A Blimp Floats in a Gallery, Imagining the View from Space
Hyperallergic - The Sidney R. Yates gallery in the Chicago Cultural Center is a large space on the top floor of a neoclassical-style building on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. Its opulent interior, with pilasters o...
Archaeologists in Turkey Find Neolithic Female Statuette Intact
Hyperallergic - The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey consists of two settlement mounds — the remains of houses continually built over old ones — that have yielded many treasures since archaeologists began ...
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The Most Powerful People in the Art World
Artnet News - Power in our rapidly expanding global art world comes in many forms. There’s creativity which pushes past formal boundaries, influence which can often convince cultural agents to do its bidding, a...
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Ghost Cinema
Art in America - I haven’t been to Thailand proper, though I’ve traveled there many times via the works of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the country’s best-known filmmaker. I first encountered Weerasethakul by acc...
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James Rosenquist’s ‘fragments of reality’ ring alarm bells
Wallpaper - Starting out as a billboard painter, pop art protagonist James Rosenquist has never downsized. Like an elephant in a room, his eerie monumental works inspired by advertising aesthetics denounce the ...