the future

KNOW // Zaha Hadid Designs a Futuristic Art Center in China
Sola Agustsson |
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Take a look at Zaha Hadid’s fluid and otherworldly plans for a new art center in China.

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The Digital Age, As Imagined by Artists
Amanda Ryan |
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The New Museum’s new exhibition Ghosts in the Machine looks at fifty years of artist’s ideas about the future of technology.

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Recreating Blade Runner in Watercolor
Spencer Nelson |
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Anders Ramsell rehashes the 1982 thriller in an animation composed of thousands of watercolors

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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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When Calamari and Molars Become Wearable Sculptures
Claire Read |
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Anne Koch describes her jewelry as “wearable sculpture,” referring to the careful casting that she executes in designing rings that look like seafood and teeth.

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