E.V. Day, “an artist best known for transforming clothing into sculpture material” – or, as she says, “futurist abstract paintings in three dimensions” – has been let loose in the closets of New York City Opera. The results are now suspended from the ceiling in the grand promenade of the Koch Theater.
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The Ultimate Rebranding? Giving The U.S. Dollar A Design Makeover
“In May, [graphic designer Richard] Smith launched a blog and posted his suggestions for a new dollar – an abstract, boldly colored set of bills with a psychedelic flair. Other design blogs began to notice, particularly those in Europe … [and soon] fellow designers were sharing their submissions.”
‘The World’s Smallest Art Prize’
“Crossing a microscope with a camera gives you a micrograph, a tiny photograph that allows artists and scientists to show the beauty inaccessible to the naked eye.” The winning images in the 2009 Nikon Small World Competition reveal the beauty of fish scales or a thistle stem in extreme close-up.
Georgia O’Keeffe In The Abstract
“There are two Georgia O’Keeffes. They’re closely related, but one is far more interesting than the other. Not so interesting, except maybe as a marketing phenomenon, is the post-1930s cow-skull painter and striker of frontier-priestess poses. More interesting, and less familiar, is the artist found in [the new Whitney show] ‘Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction’.”
Poodles As Peacocks (Ew, Even William Wegman Doesn’t Go This Far)
“Animal photographer Ren Netherland, from Florida, clips and colours poodles to resemble other animals in the name of, ahem, art. Apparently he travels thousands of miles every year photographing his creations, which range from peacocks and camels to film stars and sporting heroes.”
Maybe ‘New Urbanism’ Isn’t So New
There’s a planned community that’s walkable, verdant, transit-oriented, architecturally varied, and 100 years old this year – and still going strong. Witold Rybczynski tells the story of Forest Hills Gardens, less than half an hour by subway from midtown Manhattan.
Defunct Subway Station Becomes Elaborate Interactive Artwork (For A Day)
“Artist Justin Broadbent’s installation transformed the hidden lower Bay and Bloor subway station [in Toronto]” into “an interactive dreamscape.” Visitors found “vending machines distributing love letters, indoor forests where predator and pray live in harmony together and classical ballrooms” built into subway cars.
Ten Inventions That Changed The World
“To mark its centenary, the Science Museum in London had its curators select the ten objects in its collection that made the biggest mark on history.” Among the items on the list are the electric telegraph, the Model T Ford, the Pilot ACE computer, and Dr. Fleming’s sample of penicillium mold.
Design Of Montreal Symphony’s New Hall Revealed
“While the interior of the hall will be isolated visually and acoustically, the lobby areas, especially when illuminated at night, will be visible from the outside. … The spartan interior, topped by moveable acoustic clouds and punctuated on the sides by curved bevels, is paneled in beech. … The as-yet-unnamed concert hall bears an obvious resemblance to the Four Seasons Centre, the Toronto home of the Canadian Opera Company” and designed by the same architects.
Destroying The Ancient Silk Road City In Order To Save It
“Over the next few years, city officials say, they will demolish at least 85 percent” of the historic center of Kashgar, now in China’s far west. “In its place will rise a new Old City, a mix of midrise apartments, plazas, alleys widened into avenues and reproductions of ancient Islamic architecture ‘to preserve the Uighur culture,’ [said] Kashgar’s vice mayor.”