Why This Image Chimes with Trump
BBC - The Oval Office is America’s frontal lobe. It’s the place in the brain of a presidency where the world can witness the synapses of an administration snapping, its neurons firing – the space in which we as...
An Online Project Shames Selfie-Takers at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial
Hyperallergic - World War II ended more than 70 years ago, but the horrors of the Holocaust (or Shoah, in Hebrew) have not receded from historical memory. Yet for some reason, there’s a disconnect when it comes...
Virtual reality ‘could help treat vertigo’
BBC - People with the condition suffer from dizziness and nausea and often cite places with repetitive visual patterns, such as supermarkets, as the trigger.
A team of psychologists is working to develop vi...
A Multimedia Jungle of Moving Images
Hyperallergic - Dreamland was one of three Coney Island amusement parks where early-20th-century audiences could experience the “technology of the fantastic,” as architect Rem Koolhaas defines it, in his 1978 b...
Tate Modern to stage its first Picasso show focusing on just a single year
The Art Newspaper - Tate Modern is to devote a major exhibition to a single “pivotal” year in Picasso’s prolific career. Perhaps surprisingly, Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy (8 March-9 September 2018) will b...
‘Breaking News’ Artists Use Mass Media As Their Medium
NPR - Breaking news is everywhere, 24 hours a day. And now, it's made its way into an art gallery as well — in an exhibit called "Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media." In Los Angeles, a Getty Museum s...
The Center Pompidou at 40
The Art Newspaper - It was number 493 of the 681 submissions to a 1971 architectural competition set up by the French government for a grand cultural centre on the Plateau Beaubourg in Paris. The design by the ...
Robot art: machines that paint portraits
At the Berlin gallery "Dixit Algorizmi", you can have your portrait painted by robots. French artist Patrick Tresset came up with the idea of programming the robots so that they can draw pictures.
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