Anish Kapoor is known as one of the world’s great living artists. Since he won the Premio Duemila Prize at the 44th Venice Biennale back in 1990, his sculptural installations had a significant presence in many cities, including London, at the Tate Modern, Paris, at the Grand Palais, and Jerusalem, at the Israel Museum. Anish …
If we can accept a working definition of architecture as “enclosed space for human occupancy”, then, “temporary architecture” would be “enclosed space for short term human occupancy.” How does it come about, how is it made, how is it occupied, how long should it last, how does it end … all these depend on the …
Poetic evocations of the “sounds of silence” The poetry of Paul Simon’s song “The sounds of silence” and the one of Alexis Fancher’s photographs of LA at night under the rain, are at the origin of this post. [alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] …
Context Of all human territorial manifestations the most vexing perhaps, in terms of trying to define, is the one of the Commons, inserted conceptually between the Private and the Public domains. As conventionally accepted, the Private domain is strictly accessible to, and used by the few it belongs to; and the Public domain is accessible …
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The folks at Rovio Entertainment take their science seriously, and if you’ve ever played their addictive game Angry Birds, you know it’s all about gravity: how will the birds arc toward earth after you sling-shot them toward the pig? Angry Birds Space, released in February, 2012, takes space gravity seriously too, and uses new mathematics …
These images are courtesy NASA and the Solar Dynamics Observatory. They are constructed from several wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light and a portion of the visible spectrum. The red colored sun is the 304 angstrom ultraviolet, the golden colored sun is 171 angstrom, the magenta sun is 1700 angstrom, and the orange sun is filtered …
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