Technology

Is This What Your Bedroom Looks Like to the CIA?
Georgina Wells |
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Menno Aden’s photographs of interior spaces are a creepy window into what invasion of privacy looks like.

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A Virtual Gallery Resurrects Lost Art
Tiffany Jow |
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An addictive new website unpacks the stories behind lost works of art from the last century.

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The Man Who Designed the Future
Spencer Nelson |
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One man in particular has shaped how we represent the future. At once immensely familiar and perfectly unknown, painter and engineer Syd Mead is an unavoidable part of American culture.

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Analog Music Makers Unite!
Amanda Ryan |

A celebration of the Buchla 200e, the Bugatti of modular analog synthesizers.

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The New York Art World Documents Itself
Tiffany Jow |
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Artists team up to make work inspired by each other, making for an exhibition that doubles as a who’s who of the contemporary art world.

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From London to Bed-Stuy, These Doodles Don’t Stop
Tiffany Jow |
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Brooklyn artist Shantell Martin draws on every surface she can find—including the walls of her bedroom, sweatshirts, and people’s faces.

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How Does Virality Effect Art?
Tiffany Jow |

Should artists tailor their work to go viral? Writer Kyle Chayka investigates.

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New Technology Reveals the World's Earliest Cave Paintings
Amanda Ryan |
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Although originally discovered in the 1870’s, El Castillo Cave is back in the news thanks to a new process of uranium-dating. This technology has revealed that the cave paintings are 15,000 years older than previously estimated; it is now believed that the primitive dots and handprints are around 40,800 years old.

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Invisible Visitors: How Should Museums Go Online?
Zach Bell |
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Most museums view the online components of their exhibitions as secondary appendages or marketing materials, designed to bring visitors into the galleries. Rui Guerra is combatting that attitude and helping museums address the internet as a medium in its own right.

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An Artist Teaches Hardware Programming
Georgina Wells |
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Tristan Perich adopts the principles of math, physics, and computer code for his machine-drawn compositions and sound pieces.

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Brooklyn’s Answer to SXSW
Tiffany Jow |

Watch Wu-Tang’s GZA perform all the songs from Liquid Swords, catch a screening of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, and peek inside the studios of more than a hundred area artists in the eight-day extravaganza known as Brooklyn’s Northside Festival.

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Dutch Artist Bart Jansen's Cat-Copter
Amanda Ryan |
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A cat-copter is exactly what it sounds like.

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