Jun 29

Link About It: This Week’s Picks: Spray-on waterproofing, the fight for LGBTQ rights in photos and exploding Disney princesses in our look at the web this week

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Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Robot Drawing Machines Creating new forms of art by exploring new mediums including glow paint and coding, Chicago-based multimedia artist Harvey Moon is best known for his homemade robot drawing machines. The thought process behind which is particularly fascinating: favoring Arduino-powered, algorithm-reading…

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Jun 28

The New Whitney with Renzo Piano: A hard-hat tour with the architect of the museum’s future home

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The New Whitney with Renzo Piano


Sitting at the south end of New York City’s High Line park, the Renzo Piano work-in-progress is the Whitney Museum’s future home. The team behind the project is…

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Jun 27

Helmut Newton at the Annenberg Space for Photography: The king of kink comes to LA in an exhibition of large format photography

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Helmut Newton at the Annenberg Space for Photography


As the photographer credited with defining the genre of black-and-white fashion photography, Helmut Newton is nevertheless rarely found outside the pages of books and magazines. That’s why our ears perked up when the recordOutboundLink(this,…

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Jun 27

Touching Strangers: Photographs by Richard Renaldi: NYC publisher Aperature seeks crowd-funding support to bring the photo series to print

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Touching Strangers: Photographs by Richard Renaldi


Photographer Richard Renaldi has been working on his latest project since 2007. In creating the “Touching Strangers” series, Renaldi invites total strangers on the street to pose together—touching—and captures a fleeting moment of intimacy, turning the…

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Jun 27

Nowhere to Nowhere: A rare look at how two professional cyclists handle the mentally exhausting downtime between races

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Nowhere to Nowhere


At its core, professional cycling is a beautiful exercise in pairing physical fitness with mental strength. While the majority of media coverage given to the rigorous sport focuses on efforts to cut time and win races, the difference between claiming a stage and…

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Jun 26

Disruptus: Open your mind with this innovation-driven game for creative thinkers

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Disruptus


A creative resource for adults and kids alike, Disruptus is “designed to open every mind,” and from what we can tell, it works as advertised. Using product flashcards as a starting point, and a die for…

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Jun 26

Interview: The Knocks: The New York-based electronic music duo on their debut full-length album, Endisco

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Interview: The Knocks


The Knocks—Ben “B-Roc” Ruttner and James “JPatt” Patterson—are infiltrating the electronic music world with their distinct style of driving synths and disco grooves. Starting their music careers as producers by day and DJs by night, the…

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Jun 25

The Institute for Art and Olfaction: Aiming to create greater engagement with the art and science of perfumery

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The Institute for Art and Olfaction


by Mya Stark Scent provides us with countless moments of pleasure every day—from submerging in soaps and lotions during our morning routine; to being perked up before the coffee even touches our lips; to being tantalized by the food on our plates. Because…

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Jun 24

Space, Interiors and Exteriors, 1972: A collection of rare photographs and murals by Ayé Aton and Sun Ra, finally unveiled

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Space, Interiors and Exteriors, 1972


At first glance, this art book looks out-of-date with its 1970s desaturated colors, as if salvaged from a garage sale. Co-published this year by PictureBox and art gallery Corbett…

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Jun 21

Art Basel 2013: The Changing Worlds of Sculpture : Six pieces that redefine the medium through humor, form and otherworldly sentiments

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Art Basel 2013: The Changing Worlds of Sculpture


Transportive and transformative, the following six sculptural pieces found at this year’s Art Basel push the boundaries of the medium and its definition within art. Chaotic, thoughtful and sometimes even funny, each work manages to bring a new world into our own. Continue Reading…

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