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Family-Owned Osaka Bookseller Designs Playful Book Covers
Seiwado Book Store in Osaka began producing playful covers as freebies for their customers If you’ve ever purchased a book in Japan you’re undoubtedly familiar with the phrase kaba otsuke shimashouka? “Would you like a cover?” The book cover … Continue reading
The Swiss Cheese Covid-19 Defense | Kottke
The Swiss cheese model of accident causation is a framework for thinking about how to layer security measures to minimize risk and prevent failure. The idea is that when several layers of interventions, despite their weaknesses, are properly stacked up … Continue reading
A Star Trek actor tries to one-up his co-star in his return to Hollywood. | Brentwood
Brent Spiner made his name as iconic android Data on “Star Trek,” but he’s retreated from public life in Hollywood. He’s been teaching acting at Cal State Fullerton, but when he’s up for an award for his work on the … Continue reading
Lewis Hamilton: the man from Stevenage who became the moral compass of F1 | Guardian
Equalling Michael Schumacher’s seven titles will underline that the British driver is perhaps his sport’s last great champion – but his world is a bigger place than the paddock by Richard Williams Colour has always mattered in Formula One. Bugattis … Continue reading
Shaped Using Precisely Cut Maps, Nikki Rosato’s Busts and Portraits Connect Place, Memory, and Identity
Through mesh busts and delicate portraits, Nikki Rosato visualizes the connections between place and identity. The Washington, D.C.-based artist carves out the multi-colored highways and back roads from common maps, leaving the distances and spatial markings intact. She then shapes the … Continue reading
Àṣẹ by Anthony Prince Leslie
This year has been eye opening for Anthony Prince Leslie, giving him the chance to do internal research on relationships with people. With Aṣẹ, Leslie is creating a flm that captures the family dynamic, pays homage to traditions and the … Continue reading
Private View: Michelangelo Pistoletto at Blenheim Palace – NOWNESS
Danish director Mike Nybroe captures Michelangelo Pistoletto’s retrospective show at the UK’s Blenheim Palace. Pistoletto is a leading figure in the Italian contemporary art movement Arte Povera – taking a radical stance in the 1960s and early 1970s, artists in … Continue reading
DERNIER ROUND
Synospsis : Dans une banlieue parisienne, un jeune boxeur prometteur doit trouver un moyen de financer l’avenir de sa petite sœur, prodige du piano. Dernier Round est un film de fin d’études réalisé par : Anatole Bournique Maëva Chaulvet Katia … Continue reading
We the People: Artist Nari Ward | The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Artist Nari Ward works with teens in the ICA’s Teen Arts Council to install his monumental artwork “We the People,” created from thousands of shoelaces.
Artist Nari Ward Has Spent Decades Revitalizing Found Objects to Elucidate Counter Narratives
GRACE EBERT “We the People” (2011), shoelaces, 96 x 324 inches. All images courtesy Nari Ward and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London Jamaica-born artist Nari Ward bases his practice in found objects and their inherent mutability. The … Continue reading
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