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67 articles, 2016-04-27 00:16 1 Wolfgang Tillmans Designs Posters to Protest Brexit A poster from Wolfgang Tillmans's anti-Brexit poster campaign. COURTESY THE ARTIST Wolfgang Tillmans, the German photographer, released a series of posters 2016-04-26 11:43 3KB www.artnews.com (2.00/3)

2 Music legend Prince dies at age 57 Prince, a multitalented musician who came out of the Minneapolis scene and changed the world of music forever, has died at age 57... 2016-04-26 07:55 10KB blog.thecurrent.org 3 From Archive to Art House: Two Ruben/Bentson Films Mark Metrograph Opening In March 2016, a new independent movie theater opened its doors on New York City’s Lower East Side with two films from the Walker Art Center's collection among its initial screenings. A two-screen c... 2016-04-26 22:57 940Bytes blogs.walkerart.org 4 Chime for Change and Global Citizen Launch Campaign for Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’ Tour Gucci’s Chime for Change and Global Citizen have partnered on a campaign targeting Beyoncé fans. 2016-04-26 19:54 1KB wwd.com 5 zsolt hlinka turns budapest's 100-year-old houses into tunnels to the sky along nagykörút, a major thoroughfare in budapest, local photographer zsolt hlinka has altered the spatial perception of the area's historic sites 2016-04-26 19:47 1KB www.designboom.com 6 Luggage Company Hartmann Releases New Glider Technology The brand’s new technology “system” called, StrideAlign, features wide-set, low-profile wheels that prevent cases from tipping over. 2016-04-26 19:39 1KB wwd.com 7 Candy Pratts Price Named Contributing Editor at Departures Her first piece is about the late fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez. 2016-04-26 19:31 1KB wwd.com 8 Hom Launches In the U. S. The French men’s innerwear and swimwear brand has been acquired by the Huber Group and will enter the U. S. market this fall. 2016-04-26 19:18 1KB wwd.com 9 Clearing the Haze: Prologue to Postmodern Graphic Design Education through Sheila de Bretteville Author’s preface: At the outset, this project was defined as an intensive effort to examine and reassess the work of Shelia Levrant de Bretteville. The initial motivation was driven by the connectio... 2016-04-26 17:41 982Bytes blogs.walkerart.org 10 Five Minutes With Hailee Steinfeld: Music, Miu and Girl Squads The 19-year-old actress and singer dishes on music, Miu and what she’s learned from Taylor Swift. 2016-04-26 18:20 1KB wwd.com 11 Alternate Senses of Tone and Pulse: An Interview with C. Spencer Yeh For Sound Horizon, our series of free in-gallery music performances, we’ve invited critic and Tiny Mix Tapes editor Marvin Lin to share his perspective on each installment of this three-part progr... 2016-04-26 21:46 946Bytes blogs.walkerart.org

12 tokujin yoshioka's prism partition for glas italia transforms different settings into mirage reflections 'prism partition' glass mirror by tokujin yoshioka for glas italia displayed at salone del mobile, transforms different settings into mirage reflections. 2016-04-26 18:01 1KB www.designboom.com 13 Net-a-porter Hosts San Francisco Film Patrons The gala for the San Francisco International Film Festival hosted Ellen Burstyn, Mira Nair, Jordana Brewster, Marcia Gay Harden and up-and-comer Olivia Culpo. 2016-04-26 17:59 2KB wwd.com 14 Sotheby’s London to Host Fashion Photography Sale Photographs by Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin will be on offer. 2016-04-26 17:39 3KB wwd.com 15 Olympia Le-Tan and Uniqlo Collaborate on Line of T-Shirts, Totes The collection was partially produced by displaced women in Malaysia and Afghanistan, and a portion of proceeds will benefit the U. N.’s refugee agency. 2016-04-26 17:36 3KB wwd.com 16 Pamela Wasserstein Replacing Anup Bagaria as CEO at New York Media on May 2 After 12 years as ceo, Anup Bagaria is leaving New York Media and will be succeeded by Pamela Wasserstein. 2016-04-26 17:36 1KB wwd.com 17 Rita Ora Wears Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’ Gucci Dress Amid ‘Lemonade’ Scandal Rita Ora is the latest to get stung by the Beyhive. 2016-04-26 17:35 3KB wwd.com 18 explore persia's past with nader tehrani as part of van alen institute's online auction van alen institute has launched an online auction of art and design experiences, offering the chance for bidders to take part in 25 unique activities around the world. 2016-04-26 17:30 5KB www.designboom.com 19 Fendi to Open Boutique on Rue Saint-Honoré The Roman brand joins a hot retail strip in the French capital. 2016-04-26 17:16 1KB wwd.com 20 Harley-Davidson’s Authenticity is a Hit With Stylists Harley–Davidson doesn’t pay celebrities to wear their clothes and that authenticity is a hit with stylists and their Millennial clients. 2016-04-26 17:12 3KB wwd.com 21 LEGO technic porsche 911 GT3 RS kit one particular highlight is the fully functional LEGO porsche double-clutch transmission with four gears and gearshift paddles on the steering wheel. 2016-04-26 17:05 3KB www.designboom.com 22 They Are Wearing: Amsterdam Kingpins Amsterdam was host to both the premium denim trade show and the Denim Days, celebrating the fabric around the city. 2016-04-26 16:59 886Bytes wwd.com 23 dror envisions cultural dome for montréal influenced by buckminster fuller dror's scheme would be an homage to the 1967 world expo and a nod to architect buckminster fuller's biosphere. 2016-04-26 16:18 2KB www.designboom.com

24 An Installation Lets You Play with Robots Long-Distance Tomorrow: Manipulate robots in Atlanta from the comfort of your living room. 2016-04-26 15:55 3KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 25 130 Different People Form One Uncanny CGI Character British Artist Ed Atkins has created a rambling, bald figure from the motion recordings of 130 people. 2016-04-26 15:50 4KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 26 Inside Free Arts NYC’s Mission to Fight Poverty with Art Free Arts brings art education to New York City's underserved communities. 2016-04-26 15:30 5KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 27 The Zone of Indistinguishability: Maneries by Luis Garay When I was young, I imagined the inside of my brain looked like a library. Rows upon rows of tall bookshelves extended farther than the eye could see; where my memories, vocabulary, learned math equa... 2016-04-26 14:39 880Bytes blogs.walkerart.org 28 Embroidered Hip-Hop Lyric Lingerie Spins Hard Truths Artist Zoe Buckman yarns over music's mixed messages. 2016-04-26 14:45 5KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 29 Satellite's Gorgeous 'Earth as Art' Photos Don't miss these stunning photos of the Earth's natural landscape, taken by the US Geological Survey's Landsat 8 satellite from its orbit in outer space. 2016-04-26 14:06 2KB news.artnet.com 30 Moscow and St. Petersburg, Then and Now [Photos] Talking to Brazilian photographer Mauro Restiffe about his ongoing 'Post-Soviet Russia 1995/2015' photography exhibition at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. 2016-04-26 14:05 4KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 31 Layer by Layer Reconstructions of Old Master Paintings | Conservation Lab At the University of Delaware, Brian Baade teaches students to appreciate the labor- intensive ways of the Old Masters. 2016-04-26 13:30 5KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 32 zaha hadid architects wins competition to build vast technopark in moscow beating out proposals submitted by foster+partners and fuksas, the scheme by zaha hadid will become the russian bank’s headquarters for developing IT. 2016-04-26 13:25 2KB www.designboom.com 33 klafs S1 retractable sauna system by pressing a button on the compact front control panel, the klafs S1 extends in just 20 seconds to a full sized sauna with a built in heater. 2016-04-26 13:10 2KB www.designboom.com 34 Cevdet Erek Will Represent Turkey at the 2017 Venice Biennale Cevdet Erek. Volkan Kızıltunç. COURTESY İKSV, ISTANBUL. The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Art (İKSV) announced earlier today that artist, musician and 2016-04-26 13:10 1KB www.artnews.com 35 Dealer Spotlight: David Totah from TOTAH Gallery In this interview with David Totah, he discusses what brought him into dealing, and the mission of TOTAH gallery. 2016-04-26 13:02 6KB news.artnet.com

36 Artist Matt Moore and Olympic Gymnast Shannon Miller Help Hershey’s Countdown to Rio Games Hershey’s hopes to attract some of Times Square’s 346,540-plus daily pedestrians to its stores with Team USA offerings in advance of the Rio Summer Games. 2016-04-26 13:00 1KB wwd.com 37 Latest Canada Goose Campaign Features Ultra-Distance Runner Ultra-marathoner Ray Zahab is featured in the three-minute clip. 2016-04-26 12:57 917Bytes wwd.com 38 CASE REAL renovates and extends traditional kyoto dwelling in gosho-higashi, a small japanese town located in kyoto, architecture firm CASE REAL has renovated the interior of traditional residential dwelling. 2016-04-26 12:45 2KB www.designboom.com 39 nendo's ki kitchen + bathroom schemes for scavolini structured on containers and wooden shelves in japanese, 'ki' simultaneously means container and wood, thus nendo’s kitchen and bathroom environments of the same name, take these elements to create an expressive system. 2016-04-26 12:30 2KB www.designboom.com 40 Do Artists Share Traits with Psychopaths? Artists sometimes seem arrogant or dishonest, but psychopathic traits might actually make creative people more successful, a new study finds. 2016-04-26 12:11 2KB news.artnet.com 41 -Worthy Gaming Comes to Life in Iceland The makers of game 'Eve' tease footage of their new full-body VR eSport. 2016-04-26 12:10 2KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 42 An Awards Show Pays Tribute to Virtual Reality as an Art Form Early VR pioneers get their deserved accolades at Kaleidoscope. 2016-04-26 12:05 5KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 43 japser morrison's formal and functional 'duos' chair collection for andreu world the 'duos' collection of stackable chairs by jasper morrison for andreu world was presented at salone del mobile 2016. 2016-04-26 12:00 1KB www.designboom.com 44 Artist Turns Bomber Jackets into Patchwork Quilts Simon Mullan uses the iconic jacket as a sculptural material, exploring its links to masculinity, subcultures, and military power. 2016-04-26 12:00 3KB thecreatorsproject.vice.com 45 Pablo Bronstein Fuses Dance and Design for Tate Britain Commission “Historical Dances in an Antique Setting” is the title of this year’s annual Tate Britain Commission by London-based Argentinian artist Pablo Bronstein. 2016-04-26 11:53 2KB www.blouinartinfo.com 46 Call for Applicants: Walker Art Center Mildred Friedman Design Fellowship 2016–2017 The Walker is pleased to announce that its 2016-2017 Mildred Friedman Design Fellowship is now open for applications. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE: MAY 23rd Since 1980, the Walker’s Design department has... 2016-04-26 14:39 3KB blogs.walkerart.org

47 fabian oefner explodes iconic sports cars using thousands of photos fabian oefner's a series of exploded cars called 'disintegrating II' meticulously created by deconstructing scale-models and photographing the components. 2016-04-26 11:30 2KB www.designboom.com 48 Minneapolis Institute of Art Names Ghenete Zelleke Head of Decorative Arts and Sculpture Department Ghenete Zelleke. COURTESY THE NEW SCHOOL The Minneapolis Institute of Art has announced the appointment of Ghenete Zelleke as the new James Ford Bell curator 2016-04-26 11:25 2KB www.artnews.com 49 Italy Elects Curator for Venice Biennale 2016 Italy's Ministry of Culture has chosen Frieze Projects curator Cecilia Alemani to helm the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017. 2016-04-26 11:10 1KB news.artnet.com 50 iratzoki lizaso uses wrought iron to create the kea collection for alki the collection epitomises time-honored traditions and values of unity between the know- how of yesteryear and today. 2016-04-26 11:00 2KB www.designboom.com 51 vo trong nghia proposes green city hall as vertical extension of park landscape vo trong nghia's proposal aims is to serve as a new symbol for the city in northern vietnam and a catalyst to unite greenery and culture together. 2016-04-26 10:30 2KB www.designboom.com 52 Jessi Reaves Bridget Donahue / New York Anyone Knows How It Happened (Headboard for One) (2016), is the most formally straightforward work in Jessi Reaves’s solo exhibition at Bridget Donahue: two shelves flank a large sheet of... 2016-04-26 10:23 3KB www.flashartonline.com 53 Cannes Film Festival’s Full Jury Is Announced Among those serving under the jury president George Miller, the Australian director of the “Mad Max” franchise, will be the French director Arnaud Desplechin, the actress Kirsten Dunst, the Italian actress and director Valeria Golino, and the Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. 2016-04-26 10:06 1KB artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com 54 Celebrity Cameos Revealed for ‘Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie’ Jean Paul Gaultier, Stella McCartney, Pam Hogg will be among the fashion designers to appear. 2016-04-26 10:03 1KB wwd.com 55 Westminster Rejects 'Homeless Jesus' Statue Timothy Schmalz's "Homeless Jesus" statue is a fitting choice for Westminster, given its large homeless population, but UK officials are rejecting it. 2016-04-26 09:53 4KB news.artnet.com 56 Men’s Wear Grabs Spotlight in Hyères The joyful mood was best reflected by the exhuberant men’s wear silhouettes sent out by the 28-year-old Japanese designer Wataru Tominoga who scooped the Première Vision Grand Prize. 2016-04-26 09:32 6KB wwd.com 57 ‘You Make Publics Around The Ideas’: Martine Syms on Publishing, Self-Help, Zine Culture, and More Martine Syms presenting an Artbound episode titled The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto, after her work of the same name. VIA YOUTUBE Martine Syms is the rare 2016-04-26 09:30 20KB www.artnews.com

58 Yayoi Kusama Brings Works to Glass House Yayoi Kusama is bringing her famed 'Narcissus Garden,' 'Pumpkin,' and 'Infinity Room' to the Glass House this year. 2016-04-26 09:28 2KB news.artnet.com 59 2016 American Package Design Awards Makers, sellers and marketers are challenged as never before to convey the message, promote the brand, close the deal. Think fragmented... 2016-04-26 12:12 1KB gdusa.com 60 Fire Destroys Delhi's Natural History Museum A fire ravaged through the museum for hours, aggravated by a faulty safety equipment, and consumed most of the irreplaceable specimen in the collection. 2016-04-26 09:08 2KB news.artnet.com 61 GENETO presents everyday life as art in office design for aTOKYO located in a nondescript building at the intersection of ikura minato-ku, the interior is comprised of three boxes that give structure to the 100m2 space. 2016-04-26 08:45 1KB www.designboom.com 62 Can Sotheby's Kickstart Auction Season?— Sotheby's New York hopes to kickstart the auction season with an Impressionist and modern art auction led by Andre Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck. 2016-04-26 08:35 4KB news.artnet.com 63 Predicting the Tony Nominations: The Plays While "Hamilton" is a lock for success, the real action at the Tony Awards will be in the non-musical categories. 2016-04-26 08:00 4KB www.blouinartinfo.com 64 Prince’s Minnesota Home To Become a Museum Prince's brother-in-law has vowed to turn Paisley Park, the singer's massive Minnesota estate where he lived and worked, into a museum to honor his legacy. 2016-04-26 07:48 2KB news.artnet.com 65 Ben Vida Makes Music With Smiles Read THE DAILY PIC on a show at Lisa Cooley where Vida gets emotions to trigger music– not vice versa. 2016-04-26 06:00 1KB news.artnet.com 66 Meet German collector Heiner Wemhöner With an unusual approach to buying art, collector Heiner Wemhöner has assembled a sizable collection, and is looking for a permanent space for it in Berlin. 2016-04-26 05:36 6KB news.artnet.com 67 Two Museums Dedicated to YSL Open in 2017 Next year, two museums dedicated to the iconic designer Yves Saint Laurent will open in Paris and in Marrakesh, the two most important cities in his life. 2016-04-26 05:21 2KB news.artnet.com Articles

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1 Wolfgang Tillmans Designs Posters to Protest Brexit (2.00/3) A poster from Wolfgang Tillmans’s anti-Brexit poster campaign. COURTESY THE ARTIST Wolfgang Tillmans, the German photographer, released a series of posters today that protest the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. In the posters, which have images of flags and landscapes printed on them, Tillmans urges U. K. citizens to vote and consider what it would mean for their country to no longer be a part of their EU. Below is the statement Tillmans wrote about the posters for his site. Dear Friends, I’m sure you are also following with horror the rightwards drift and anti-EU sentiment brewing across Europe. The Dutch referendum should be the final wake-up call, alerting people to the real risk of the UK’s EU referendum resulting in a victory for Leave. The official ‘Remain’ campaign feels lame and is lacking in passion. It also lacks an active drive to get voters registered – and with the deadline already falling two weeks before the referendum, this should be an urgent priority. I want to get involved and actively campaign. In particular, I want to work towards maximizing turnout among younger voters by focusing on the first, crucial step: voter registration – the deadline for which is June 7! So anyone who hasn’t registered before this date has no chance of having a say, no matter how strongly they feel about the issue. So the really crucial date is June 7. Everyone’s grannies registered their vote long ago, but students no longer get automatically registered by their unis. This is because of a new law brought in by the Conservatives that makes it possible for them to disenfranchise up to 800,000 students, who as a group tend to move around a lot more and so drop off the voter register easily. I feel that we have reached a critical moment that could prove to be a turning point for Europe as we know and enjoy it – one that might result in a cascade of problematic consequences and political fall-out. Firstly, the weakening of the EU is a goal being actively pursued by strongmen like Vladimir Putin and European parties on the far-right that are funded by Russia (a little known fact). Furthermore, Brexit would provoke calls for referendums in many other countries and could effectively spell the end of the EU. It’s a flawed and problematic institution, but on the whole it stands for a democratic worldview, human rights and favours cooperation over confrontation. It could prove to be a one-in-a-generation moment. Can you imagine the years of renegotiations for undoing treaties, and all the negativity that would surround that. In the past weeks myself and assistants at my London and Berlin studios and Between Bridges worked on these texts and designs. Please feel free to share these posters, they work as print your own PDFs, or on social media, or in any other way you can think of. I consider them open-source, you can take my name tag off if more appropriate. Let’s hope for the best – but hope may not be enoughWolfgang The posters can be downloaded and printed from Tillmans’s site. They’re even offering them in the form of a ZIP file so they can be shared on social media. And Tillmans’s posters have been fortuitously timed to come out on the same day as a Telegraph poll that reveals that one in five are still undecided on how they will vote, so you can expect to be seeing more of these posters online. 2016-04-26 11:43 Alex Greenberger

2 Music legend Prince dies at age 57 Prince, a multitalented musician who came out of the Minneapolis scene and changed the world of music forever, has died at age 57. According to a statement from Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson, “on April 21, 2016, at about 9:43 am, sheriff’s deputies responded to a medical call at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen. When deputies and medical personnel arrived, they found an unresponsive adult male in the elevator. First responders attempted to provide lifesaving CPR, but were unable to revive the victim. He was pronounced deceased at 10:07 am. He has been identified as Prince Rogers Nelson (57) of Chanhassen.” We are continuing to follow this story and will add updates as they become available. One of the greatest stars in rock history, Prince bridged rock and R&B to fuse a “Minneapolis Sound” that helped define the music of the 1980s. With over 100 million albums sold worldwide, Prince is one of the best-selling artists of all time, widely cited as an influence by artists from the worlds of pop, R&B, rock, hip-hop, and beyond. Born Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis in 1958, Prince remained a lifelong Minnesotan and had a profound impact on the community here. With the hit movie and soundtrack Purple Rain , he turned First Avenue from a hot local club to an international music landmark. Artists including Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis went from Prince collaborations to performing and producing chart- topping hits that spread the “Minneapolis Sound” across the musical landscape. Prince’s genius seemed to arrive fully formed, almost as if by magic: he released his debut album ( For You , 1978) at the age of 19, and its eponymous follow-up, released the following year, made him a breakout success with instant classics like “I Wanna Be Your Lover” and “I Feel For You.” He wrote, played, sang, and produced the entire collection himself, adding to the sense that somehow lightning had struck in Minneapolis. It had, but recently released compilations like Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound (Numero Group) and Twin Cities Funk & Soul (Secret Stash Records) shone a long-overdue spotlight on the small but tight-knit and inventive local R&B scene that spawned Prince. Once Prince was out of the gate, there was no stopping him. Prince was made for the ’80s, and the ’80s were made for him. Seriously funky but also pop-friendly, Prince was at the forefront of artists who deployed synthesizers and samplers in conjunction with traditional rock instrumentation to create music that felt completely liberated — sexy and fun. “Sexy” was part of Prince’s playbook from day one: he knew how to tease his fans into a frenzy on record, on stage, and, crucially, on screen. His provocative antics earned priceless condemnation from the voices of conventional morality (“Darling Nikki” inspired Tipper Gore to found the PMRC ), and Prince — dressing as flamboyantly as the decade demanded, with a regal flair he might have learned from James Brown — played his bad-boy/pretty-boy role to the hilt. Purple Rain represented Prince in full flower. While some fans and critics argue that Sign “O” the Times (1987) represents an even greater artistic triumph, Purple Rain ‘s vast commercial success was not incidental to its epochal achievement. “When Doves Cry” epitomized the unique power of Prince; at decade’s end, critic Dave Marsh wrote that it “may have been the most influential single record of the 80s.” A stripped-down, percussive track with a vocal that’s so understated it’s sometimes half-spoken and — to the astonishment of music insiders who thought they knew how to make a record — no bass track, “When Doves Cry” seemed to break all the rules of pop songcraft, and yet Prince turned it into such an intoxicating single that it shot to number one for five weeks, holding even Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” at bay. Simultaneously, Albert Magnoli’s gloriously shameless film defined Prince’s personal mythology and made him one of the greatest pop icons of a decade that had more than its share. Set in Minneapolis, the film depicted First Avenue as a hot spot on the order of Studio 54; instead of driving along Highway 1 as they might have done in an L. A. movie, Prince and his costar Apollonia hopped on a purple motorcycle and cruised out into the Minneapolis suburbs to get “purified in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.” To this day, touring acts are visibly thrilled to discover that First Ave actually is a great club, that it actually does look like that (okay, not the dressing rooms), and that it remains the center of a thriving music scene. Though he never had another smash album as big as the Purple Rain soundtrack, Prince remained a dominant commercial force throughout the ’80s and early ’90s, producing #1 hits ranging from the hard-flirting “Kiss” (1986) to the novelty “Batdance” (1989) to the sparkling “Cream” (1991) while cycling through various band configurations and sounds. The early ’90s marked a crucial point of transition in Prince’s career. He formed a fresh band — the New Power Generation — and released music that increasingly delved into hip-hop, meeting with a mixed reception. If some fans started to sense an identity crisis, they were affirmed by Prince’s 1993 decision to change his name to the unpronounceable glyph (“Love Symbol #2”) that had served as the title to the 1992 album ironically containing the single “My Name is Prince.” The 1993 release of a two-disc greatest hits collection also served to cap a remarkable run on the charts that ended with 1994’s #3 hit “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World,” Prince’s last single to date to crack the American top ten. The mid-90s marked the end of Prince’s relationship with his label Warner Bros. — after releasing a quick series of low-selling albums to fulfill his contractual obligations, he broke from the label in 1996 — and the beginning of his famously tumultuous relationship with the Internet. The iconoclastic perfectionist saw the Internet’s potential as a tool to allow him to independently manage his own fandom and distribute his own music, but he also grew increasingly concerned about the danger of having his material freely bootlegged. Prince was the first major artist to release an album on the Internet (1997’s Crystal Ball ) and from 2001-2006 ran the pioneering NPG Music Club to sell his music online by membership; but following the closure of that site, he became increasingly negative about the Internet, complaining that other sites (notably, YouTube) were benefiting by unauthorized circulation of his material. In an infamous 2010 statement, the online pioneer declared that “the Internet’s completely over.” Releasing music both independently and through various short-term deals with major labels, in the late 90s and the first decade of the 2000s Prince released a flood of new material ranging from the obscure (the instrumental N. E. W. S. in 2003) to the consciously commercial (1999’s Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic and 2006’s 3121 ). He reclaimed his given name when his Warner Bros. publishing contract ended in 2000, and his widely-praised Super Bowl halftime show in 2007 proved to the largest possible audience that he was still a fiery live performer. In the 2010s, Prince stepped back into the public eye in a way rarely seen since the ’90s. He formed another new band — the all-female 3RDEYEGIRL — and played rapturously reviewed shows with them at venues ranging from Minnesota casinos to London living rooms. He “took over” an entire episode of Arsenio Hall’s talk show , and duetted with Zooey Deschanel on a new song he premiered on a post-Super-Bowl episode of New Girl. Perhaps most surprisingly, Prince re-signed with Warner Bros. Media coverage of the deal focused on the promised new music and Purple Rain reissue, but a telling detail of the press release is that the deal gave Prince ownership of his Warner Bros. masters. The artist who wore the word SLAVE on his cheek during a 1993 legal battle with his label was a free man. Most recently, Prince released a pair of HITNRUN albums recorded at Paisley Park, and was performing solo “Piano & a Microphone” shows at venues around the world. He debuted the format with two intimate performances at Paisley Park in January. “I forgot,” he said as he momentarily became overcome at one show, “that sometimes music is emotional.” He was writing a memoir , which was expected to be published next fall. Artists associated with Prince are still active. Revolution drummer Bobby Z holds an annual benefit concert at First Avenue, childhood friend and collaborator André Cymone just released his first new music in decades , NPG drummer Michael Bland is a busy performer and producer…the list goes on. A new generation of local performers are exemplifying the ’80s-era spirit of cross-genre fertilization and collaboration, now with a strong and adventurous hip-hop scene that’s produced the area’s best-known current artists. Prince remained aware and supportive of what’s going on. In a classic Prince moment, he showed up backstage when the local supergroup GAYNGS played First Ave in 2010. Prince picked up a guitar and played a little, but ultimately declined to take the stage; some reported hearing him make a comment to the effect of, “Looks like they’ve got it under control.” Prince’s legacy in Minnesota is multilayered — from his early collaborations with neighborhood bands, to his towering hits that put Minneapolis on the world’s music map, to the venues he founded (Paisley Park and the former downtown club Glam Slam), to the enduring contributions of musicians he played with, to the example the Minneapolis Sound set for the dynamic scene of today. Perhaps most importantly, though, Prince’s music is evidence — to the world, and to Minnesotans ourselves — of the diversity of our state, and of our music. When you listen to Prince, you hear the influences of all the artists he grew up with: black, white, funky, rocking, groovy, prickly. It’s not the sound of Minnesota’s lonesome prairie, it’s the sound of our dense cities. This utopian artist proved that music truly can break barriers — if u want it 2. Portions of this article were previously published here . We’re gathering your thoughts: What do Prince and his music mean to you? Visit this page to send us your thoughts and memories of Prince . 2016-04-26 07:55 Jay Gabler

3 From Archive to Art House: Two Ruben/Bentson Films Mark Metrograph Opening In March 2016, a new independent movie theater opened its doors on New York City’s Lower East Side with two films from the Walker Art Center’s collection among its initial screenings. A two-screen cinema complemented by a restaurant, candy shop, and bookstore, Metrograph will present a wide palette of curated selections—from French New Wave to American […] 2016-04-26 22:57 By

4 Chime for Change and Global Citizen Launch Campaign for Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’ Tour Beyoncé’s do-gooding fans will have a shot at VIP tickets for her upcoming “Formation” tour. On Tuesday, it was revealed that the superstar is partnering with Gucci ’s Chime for Change , of which she is a cofounder, and Global Citizen in support of gender equality. Beyoncé’s fans who sign up to become Global Citizens will be entered to win VIP tickets to see the singer in Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Detroit or London. “Inspired by the powerful message of ‘Formation,’ Global Citizen and Chime for Change are calling on Beyoncé fans to #StandInFormation against poverty, injustice and gender inequality,” the Global Citizen site says. Global Citizen and Chime for Change have partnered since 2015 , and work to end poverty, injustice and gender inequality. The “Formation” tour kicks off Wednesday at Marlins Park in Miami, and has had no shortage of hype over the past few days. On Saturday, Beyoncé released her surprise album “ Lemonade ,” following her HBO special, which sparked rumors of infidelity in her marriage to Jay Z. Both Rachel Roy and Rita Ora have been swept up in the rumor mill over allegations of an affair with Jay Z. 2016-04-26 19:54 Leigh Nordstrom

5 zsolt hlinka turns budapest's 100- year-old houses into tunnels to the sky zsolt hlinka turns budapest's 100-year-old houses into tunnels to the sky zsolt hlinka turns budapest’s 100-year-old houses into tunnels to the sky all images © zsolt hlinka along nagykörút — a major thoroughfare in budapest built in 1896 that now forms one of the busiest parts of the city — local photographer zsolt hlinka has altered the spatial perception of the area’s historic sites. the series ‘100-year-old houses’ reinterprets the buildings as structural tunnels that lead to the infinity of the sky above. as the buildings frame the blue sky, the contrast between the geometric architectural forms and the immeasurable space overhead is exaggerated. this emphasis, in turn, draws attention to the hidden details often overlooked in buildings, like elevator shafts, window frames and brickwork. looking at the centrally-positioned photographs from the ground up seemingly symbolizes time — as the floors rise above the camera, their levels can represent the ever-growing age of the buildings. hlinka’s previous photographic series sourced ‘urban symmetry’ on the banks of the river danube. the images emphasize each structure’s uniform proportions by placing them onto homogeneous, monochromic spaces that eliminate the surrounding exterior information. 2016-04-26 19:47 Nina Azzarello

6 Luggage Company Hartmann Releases New Glider Technology More Articles By The brand’s new technology “system,” called StrideAlign, features wide-set, low-profile wheels that prevent cases from tipping over and create an ease of motion. The company patented the technology and has applied it to its Ratio and Ratio Classic Deluxe collections, with iterations called Glider cases. These designs were unveiled last month at the Travel Goods Association trade show. Widespread retail distribution is expected this month, with product priced from $525 to $650. Mark Salander, vice president of design and product development of Samsonite, parent company of Hartmann, said of the product: “Hartmann specifically developed this luggage technology, shape and style with the road warrior in mind. “I’ve traveled through countless airports and have personally watched travelers struggle in the process. No matter how luxurious their luggage is, the experience is still cumbersome. Our goal with the Glider cases was for Hartmann to provide a permanent solution to the ongoing problem all travelers have.” 2016-04-26 19:39 Misty White

7 Candy Pratts Price Named Contributing Editor at Departures To celebrate her appointment, Richard David Story, editor in chief of Departures, will host an event at the Core Club in New York on Thursday night, where they’ll discuss Lopez, what’s happening in the fashion business and Price’s likes and dislikes. “I’ve known Candy ever since I worked at Vogue magazine,” said Story, who left Vogue in 2000 to join Departures. “Price was outrageous, wonderfully eccentric and keenly intelligent. Luckily for all of us, she still is.” Price was previously creative director of Vogue.com; executive fashion director at Style.com; creative director at Ralph Lauren; accessories director for Vogue, and fashion director for Harper’s Bazaar. She edited “American Fashion Accessories” and conceived and directed the fashion content for the 1999 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards. She began her career designing store windows and displays for Bloomingdale’s. She also curated the exhibition “Manolo Blahnik…The Shoe: A Celebration of Design.” 2016-04-26 19:31 Lisa Lockwood

8 Hom Launches In the U. S. The line, which was founded in 1968, is known for its premium, fashion-forward styles that are rooted in French heritage. In 2015, the brand was acquired by the Huber Group, which also owns Hanro. The label was previously owned by the Triumph Group for 28 years. “As a premium and innovative underwear brand in France, the time has come for Hom to seduce new consumers,” said Regine Weimar, general manager of Hom. “This is a great opportunity for fashion conscious men in the U. S. to experience the extreme comfort and great quality of Hom styles resulting from the brand’s expert know-how and French heritage.” The fall 2016 collection, which will be available this August, includes underwear that retails from $26 to $49, activewear, sleep sets and lounge separates, which retail from $49 to $158, and swimwear, with price points from $72 to $120. The line will be sold on Hom’s e-commerce site and at Saks Fifth Avenue. 2016-04-26 19:18 Aria Hughes

9 Clearing the Haze: Prologue to Postmodern Graphic Design Education through Sheila de Bretteville Author’s preface: At the outset, this project was defined as an intensive effort to examine and reassess the work of Shelia Levrant de Bretteville. The initial motivation was driven by the connection of the rise of feminist voices in design, the Woman’s Building, postmodern design, and experimental pedagogy. We recognize that many female designers worked […] 2016-04-26 17:41 By and

10 Five Minutes With Hailee Steinfeld: Music, Miu and Girl Squads Hailee Steinfeld celebrated her debut as cover girl and guest editor for the sixth edition of harper by Harper’s Bazaar Friday at the aptly named Sunset Tower Hotel. With the pink-and-purple- streaked sky on the terrace providing the perfect backdrop, Steinfeld caught up with girlfriends Bailee Madison, Joey King and Kiernan Shipka and posed for photos with Bazaar’s Laura Brown. In between the flurry of activity, the 19-year-old singer and actress chatted with WWD about her new music, her respect for fashion designers and being in Taylor Swift ’s girl squad. 2016-04-26 18:20 Ericka Franklin

11 Alternate Senses of Tone and Pulse: An Interview with C. Spencer Yeh For Sound Horizon, our series of free in-gallery music performances, we’ve invited critic and Tiny Mix Tapes editor Marvin Lin to share his perspective on each installment of this three-part program. While his first two pieces were informed responses to work by musicians Mary Halvorson and Vicky Chow / Tristan Perich, he concludes with an in-person […] 2016-04-26 21:46 By

12 tokujin yoshioka's prism partition for glas italia transforms different settings into mirage reflections tokujin yoshioka's prism partition for glas italia transforms different settings into mirage reflections tokujin yoshioka’s prism partition for glas italia transforms different settings into mirage reflections ‘prism partition’ by tokujin yoshioka for glas italia is a partition panel made of faceted high-transparency mirror glass which transforms different settings into mirage reflections. the panels when placed within a natural setting, reflect plants upwards, creating a harmonious gradient between land and sky. the installation presents endless viewpoints and compositions depending on the setting and ones interaction with the piece. the design plays upon more than just the objects reflective properties but the individuals conscious perception of space. for yoshioka’s display at salone del mobile 2016, the designer used four mirrors arranged at different heights. this vertical structure projected multiple shapes that curved in and around, creating a fluid ripple across the stand. visitors could observe their figure distort and transform as they walked passed, which introduced an interactive element to the static installation. tokujin yoshioka’s used four mirrors arranged at different heights at salone del mobile 2016, multiple shapes curve in and around creating a fluid ripple across the stand visitors could observe their figure distort and transform as they walked passed image © designboom 2016-04-26 18:01 Shuhei Senda

13 Net-a-porter Hosts San Francisco Film Patrons Last night, Net-a-porter cohosted a dinner and awards ceremony during the San Francisco International Film Festival at Fort Mason. This was the second year in a row that the high-end e- tailer has sponsored the event, and it was a key chance to get in front of the lucrative, yet tricky, Bay Area market. The evening was one of the last events at the Herbst Pavilion, a former military warehouse along the waterfront, before it becomes a center for the San Francisco Art Institute. Among the honorees and guests were film industry notables Ellen Burstyn, Mira Nair, Jordana Brewster, Marcia Gay Harden and up-and- comer Olivia Culpo. Attendees included those from the local culture and style set, including Vanessa Getty, Katie Traina and Todd Traina, who is on the board of the San Francisco Film Society. Burstyn received the Peter J. Owens Award, given to an actor whose work exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity. While walking the red carpet, Burstyn said that integrity had always been an important part of her career — “the backbone of your character” — she said, and she’d always been independent. As for the brilliance, she couldn’t comment on that. Harden, whom she choose to present the award, did that for her, calling her a “goddess.” “She would,” said Burstyn with a laugh, saying that after meeting on the set of “Spitfire Grill,” the two had become very close. Harden called her a “remarkably intelligent, giving, kind woman” who had been there for many important stages in her life. “San Francisco,” although it was cosmopolitan, Harden said, “was completely upstaged by her.” Brewster, who attended with close friend and film society board member Max Boyer Glenn, said she jumps at any opportunity to come to San Francisco from Los Angeles. Newcomer Olivia Culpo, who was excited about signing her second film — an indie romance — was happy to come as a guest of Net-a-porter, which she praised for “empowering females as a company.” And that was just it, said Net-a-porter’s Lydia Williams. San Francisco, she said, was a hugely important market for the tech company and retailer, as it was an ideal blend of philanthropy, tech and the arts. Certainly a number of high-powered local executives, and festival supporters, would concur that the feeling is mutual. 2016-04-26 17:59 Maghan McDowell

14 Sotheby’s London to Host Fashion Photography Sale More Articles By The sale, which will take place May 19, will coincide with the second edition of Photo London, a photography fair that brings together the British capital’s major museums, galleries and auction houses to celebrate photography. Rare photographs from the likes of Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn and Peter Lindbergh will be sold alongside works of modern-day photographers including Miles Aldridge and David La Chapelle. Penn’s striking “Mouth” photograph taken for L’Oréal in 1986 portraying female lips smeared with numerous shades of lipstick will be included in the sale. This is only the third time the image has gone to auction and it is estimated to sell for up to 230,000 pounds, or $331,000 at current exchange. Also among the highlights is “Models,” another Lindbergh photograph featuring supermodels of the Nineties, including Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington, wearing men’s shirts and little makeup. It was a reaction to fashion photography’s fascination at the time with retouching. The photograph, which was considered too avant-garde to be used by Vogue U. S. at the time, is estimated to sell between 60,000 to 80,000 pounds, or $86,000 to $115,000. A portrait of Marilyn Monroe by Avedon stands out for capturing a different side of the actress and model. “For hours she danced and sang and flirted — she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn’t photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no,” recalled the late Avedon of the portrait he took in his studio in 1957. A nude black-and-white shot of a young Kate Moss taken by Albert Watson in 1993; Guy Bourdin’s daring photographs taken for French Vogue in the Eighties, and Newton’s classic black-and-white “Woman Into Man, Paris” photograph will also be going under the hammer. Among the other photographs in the sale are the “Money Shot” by David La Chapelle and Miles Aldridge’s “The Rooms No. 2,” which was initially showcased as part of “I Only Want You to Love Me,” a solo exhibit of his work held at Somerset House in 2013. “These works were carefully chosen for this auction and reflect the continued interest and collectability of fashion photography, an area in the market that has grown from strength to strength,” said Brandei Estes, Sotheby’s photographs specialist. “We expect these works will do extremely well and are delighted to have such a broad estimate range.” 2016-04-26 17:39 Natalie Theodosi

15 Olympia Le-Tan and Uniqlo Collaborate on Line of T-Shirts, Totes More Articles By Olympia Le-Tan and Uniqlo have linked on a limited-edition collaboration of T-shirt and tote designs, partially produced by displaced women in Malaysia and Afghanistan. While already available in Japan, the collection was released exclusively at Colette in Paris on Monday and is slated for wider international distribution at Uniqlo stores beginning next Monday. Each piece is inspired by memorable moments in Le-Tan’s design history — including fall 2014 ’s slinky ode to a deck of cards and spring 2015 ’s schoolhouse overture. The eight T-shirt designs are both screen-printed and embroidered — some to mimic Le-Tan’s cheeky handbags and others transposing drawings by the designer’s illustrator father, Pierre. “We sort of did a best-of,” Le-Tan told WWD of the collection’s intent. She’d already begun work on T-shirt designs for the Fast Retailing Co. Ltd., subsidiary when a Uniqlo representative asked her if she would like the collection to include a tie-in with UNHCR, the U. N.’s refugee agency. “We first starting working on T-shirts and then someone who specifically works in that division at Uniqlo asked me to participate in the program. I asked for it to support women specifically and selected a few geographical regions that are good with embroidery,” Le-Tan said. The collection grew to include a tote bag and key chain memento, incorporating an embroidered logo “OLT” patch, crafted by the women. “With the time we had, we did what we could according to their skills,” explained the designer. The key chains were only produced in a very limited quantity, but about 2,000 tote bags — inspired by Le-Tan’s early milk carton purses — will be distributed worldwide. Fast Retailing broke ground on its partnership with UNHCR in 2011 and in November 2015 pledged $10 million in sustained emergency aid relief over a three-year period to the cause. However, the Uniqlo x Olympia Le-Tan collection is the first case in which the company has directly supported career development among displaced individuals. Designs retail for about 15 euros, or $16.97 at current exchange. Full proceeds from tote-bag sales and a portion of T-shirt proceeds will be donated to UNHCR. To mark the collaboration’s release, Le-Tan has reissued the collection items that inspired each Uniqlo design — including the milk carton and chalk-box bags, which are available for pre-order on her Web site. “When [the collaboration] first came out in Japan, I kept seeing young girls posting pictures on Instagram and thought it would be nice for them to have the bag to match,” Le-Tan said. 2016-04-26 17:36 Misty White

16 16 Pamela Wasserstein Replacing Anup Bagaria as CEO at New York Media on May 2 After 12 years as New York Media’s chief executive officer, Anup Bagaria will be heading for the door and will be succeeded by Pamela Wasserstein as of May 2. For the past 18 months, Wasserstein has had a day-to-day role as cochair and head of strategy for the company, which publishes New York Magazine and the digital properties nymag.com, Vulture, the Cut, Daily Intelligencer, Grub Street and Science of Us. Perhaps her former role at Tribeca Enterprises as vice president of corporate development spearheading new business initiatives, including the Tribeca Shortlist subscription video-on-demand film service, speaks to the increasingly digital-minded path that New York Media is after — along with many of its competitors. In tandem with editor in chief Adam Moss and publisher Larry Burstein, Wasserstein will be ramping up such initiatives as a new branded content studio and video team, and reinvention of the live events strategy, building on the Vulture Festival and others. Next up is Wednesday’s launch of Select All, a new vertical exploring technology that aims to examine tech in the way others look at entertainment, approaching it as an obsessive fan might. A graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School, Wasserstein is the daughter of the late Bruce Wasserstein, whose family entity acquired New York in 2004. He died in 2009. Pamela Wasserstein’s experience also includes stints at Apollo Global Management and as a corporate lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP. 2016-04-26 17:36 Rosemary Feitelberg

17 Rita Ora Wears Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’ Gucci Dress Amid ‘Lemonade’ Scandal More Articles By The “Lemonade” dram a swirls on. Rita Ora is the latest to fall victim of the “Becky with the good hair” witch hunt. The 25-year-old first provoked the Beyhive on Monday after sporting a revealing, lemon-patched bikini top in a Snapchat from April 21. The conspiracy theory was furthered by what appeared to be a “J” initial necklace around her neck, though Ora fans soon came to her defense, pointing out it was the flipped over “R” chain that she’s been seen wearing recently. Rita Ora: Becky With The Good Hair! .. By now you've heard all about Beyonce's album and all the name calling that followed. Well, if you're #beyhive , then know that Rachel Roy is not "Becky with the good hair! " And no that does not exclude the possibility of Jay messing with Rachel; it just means Rachel is not as important to Jay Z as she'd like to think. .. Rita Ora is more likely to be Becky! And her picture points us in her direction. In this snapchat clip which she has deleted, Rita dons a yellow bikini embellished with lemonades! Guess whose album is named lemonade? And if you think that pendant was not intentionally flipped to look like a "J" maybe you need lesson 101 on how sidechicks roll! I don't see a twist in that chain. Rita knew what Bey's album would be called. The clues are too loud and one too many to be coincidence!.. There is a possibility that Jay is indeed in love with Rita and the bish knows her power. Too bad… Cos there aint gonna be two queen Beys! Over to you Beyhive. #lemonade #beyonce #jayz #ritaora #rachelroy #rihanna #bey #queenbey A photo posted by THE TEA ROOM NAIJA (@thetearoomnaija) on Apr 25, 2016 at 6:40am PDT Though it can only be assumed Ora was deliberately stoking the flames, she stepped out in West Hollywood on Tuesday in the same Gucci look that Beyoncé wore in the “Formation” music video. The ensemble — a $1,890 red silk print blouse and matching skirt from Alessandro’s Michele’s spring collection — was first seen post-runway on Beyoncé when she straddled a police car in the viral video. #BishStoleMyLook: Oop as the #Beyhive has chosen #RitaOra as the second #BeckyWithTheGoodHair suspect (stinging her accordingly) they may also add outfit thief to her resume! She was recently spotted in the same #Gucci silk shirt and midi pleated skirt that #Beyonce wore in her #Formation video! Coincidence or nah? Anyways you know we have to ask #WhoWoreItBest!? A photo posted by The Shade Room (@theshaderoominc) on Apr 26, 2016 at 7:49am PDT Ora is the latest star to feel the wrath of the Beyhive. First it was designer Rachel Roy — well, really, first it was poor Rachael Ray, the innocent daytime TV chef who got swept up in a case of mistaken identity — and has some strange Instagram comments to prove it. But once the Beyhive sorted their letters out, Roy was forced to make her social media private, then reopen it with a select image taken down after many interpreted her posts to be acknowledgement of an affair with Jay Z. Hours later — things are moving quickly here — Ora was the suspected “Becky.” Ora has been signed to Jay Z’s label Roc Nation and has been considered his protégé. Strangely, she sued the label in December 2015 and was then sued in return by Roc Nation in February. 2016-04-26 17:35 Leigh Nordstrom

18 explore persia's past with nader tehrani as part of van alen institute's online auction explore persia's past with nader tehrani as part of van alen institute's online auction explore persia’s past with nader tehrani as part of van alen institute’s online auction van alen institute has launched an online auction of art and design experiences, offering the chance for bidders to take part in 25 unique activities around the world. the encounters will be experienced alongside notable figures in the fields of art, architecture, and design — including a hands on studio session with the haas brothers, an urban hike through beijing with architect ma yansong, and a visit to donald judd’s compound in marfa, texas. the online portion of van alen institute’s annual auction of art and design experiences is now live here via web platform paddle8, and closes at 5pm (ET) on wednesday, april 27. the itinerary will take in a number of landmarks, including 17th-century heritage sites described in an old persian proverb as ‘half the world,’ the iranian city of isfahan is home to a great number of spectacular sites. as one of the experiences on offer, the winning bidder will have the opportunity to explore the region with architect nader tehrani, the dean of the irwin s. chanin school of architecture at the cooper union, and principal of NADAAA — a boston-based architecture practice. the itinerary will take in a number of landmarks, from 17th-century heritage sites — like the sheikh lotfollah mosque and naghsh-e jahan square — to isfahan’s famous bazaars and gardens. to find out more about the experience, designboom spoke with nader tehrani, who explained the nature of the tour in more detail. read our interview below, and see more about the auction here. designboom: can you describe your role in the experience and what it will involve? nader tehrani: my role is to develop the itinerary, and moreover to translate — literally and culturally — the delights of isfahan. depending on the taker, this might also require architectural translation, which is premised on traditions that are particular to the region. food will play a significant role in that promenade, so the prerequisite for the trip is a fasting period prior, independent of ramadan, to be able to earn the trip. DB: which of isfahan’s architectural features do you wish to highlight on the tour? NT: beyond the maidane nakhshe-jahan and the masjede jameh as anchors of the urban promenade, there is the bazaar that sets the main course; maybe the most important stop is azam restaurant within the bazaar, which serves beryooni, a speciality that is only available in isfahan. the promenade along the river, the bridges across zayande-rood, and the gardens of hasht-behesht, and the cafe’s along the river… these are all important to round out the couple of days. DB: what do you think makes the city so unique? NT: it is an urban artifact like no other, and it remains intact throughout the centuries. though much of the social, economic, and political framework of iran has transformed, this city’s urban fabric remains sewn together as an extended field, almost monolithic, however delicately. it is a city that operates virtually as a mat building. stunning! nader tehrani describes isfahan as ‘an urban artifact like no other’ DB: in what ways do you hope the winning bidder will find a new understanding of isfahan, and iranian culture in general? NT: there are many here in the west who know iran through the writings of arthur pope, the analysis of klaus herdeg, among a range of other scholars who have written about the jewels of the region. however, it is altogether something else to be immersed in the odor of the place, the weather, the people and its culinary culture. to that end, I see this as an opportunity to gain a more immersive understanding of the place, understood less analytically, by way of experience, pleasure, and interaction. DB: personally, what do you enjoy about the city, and how has it influenced your creative work? NT: my own work has evolved a great deal from studying the masonry logics of the seljuk and safavid periods, however abstractly: think of casa la roca, or tongxian art of the earlier period, but also some of our more recent work on large scale precast interlocking systems, from the MSD in melbourne to the compressive catenary installation in boston. I am fascinated by the emphasis on structural tectonics as part of the ornamental tradition of that era. see all of the art + design experiences up for auction here 2016-04-26 17:30 Philip Stevens

19 Fendi to Open Boutique on Rue Saint-Honoré More Articles By The Roman fashion house plans to open a 2,700-square-foot women’s only unit this fall at 265 Rue Saint-Honoré on the hot Paris retail strip, where recent arrivals include Alexander McQueen, Coach, Tory Burch and Marc Jacobs , which last week opened at 368 Rue Saint- Honoré with a new women’s collection unit. As reported, Stella McCartney is to open a 2,000- square-foot location at 231 Rue Saint-Honoré by the end of the year, doubling her Paris presence. Fendi is taking up a space with prominent frontage previously occupied by Patrizia Pepe and a stone’s throw from Rue Cambon, where Chanel is reconfiguring neighboring buildings on Rue Duphot and Rue Saint-Honoré for an expanded flagship with two storefronts. Fendi also has a flagship boutique on Avenue Montaigne, a dedicated men’s store on Rue des Archives and shops-in-shop at Printemps, Galeries Lafayette and Le Bon Marché. 2016-04-26 17:16 Miles Socha

20 Harley-Davidson’s Authenticity is a Hit With Stylists Harley-Davidson Inc. didn’t pay Rihanna to wear its latest T-shirt at Coachella and it’s that authenticity that appeals to the loyal customers of Harley’s apparel. “Sometimes we see celebrities in a retro T-shirt or engineer boots,” said Karen Davidson, creative director of general merchandise, who confirmed that they don’t pay celebrities to wear their clothes. “They just get picked up by their stylists,” she said. Davidson’s great-grandfather was the cofounder of the legendary motorcycle brand that is headquartered in Milwaukee. Harley-Davidson sold $292 million in nonmotorcycle merchandise last year. On top of that, Harley claims to own 62 percent of the female motorcycle market. Women riders in the U. S. have increased by 14 percent as of 2014 and that is a 50 percent increase over the last 10 years. 25 percent of all motorcycle riders are women and that includes passengers. This all-American motorcycle company has been in business since 1903 and has carried apparel since 1912. Initially, the clothing was functional in nature for the riders, but now the fashion side is getting just as much attention. The company’s first apparel item was a jacket with Harley-Davidson in bold felt letters. Also pictured on the Web site in the company’s archives is a woman who rode more than 5,000 miles in 1914 and wore “long-distance riding clothes” from Harley-Davidson. Davidson said the apparel varies from functional rider clothing that addresses shoulder comfort, ventilation and moisture wicking to post riding casual outfits. The Black Label line that was launched in 2008, is more stylish and less functional. It has a more discreet logo and a slim cut. The line is aiming for the younger customer that may not necessarily own a Harley. For the first time Harley-Davidson participated in New York Fashion Week in February with its counter-culture fashion show. The Harley women’s wear is very inclusive when it comes to sizes. Everything from small to tall and skinny to wide is available. Spokeswoman, Jennifer Hoyer said, “We don’t want our customer to have to settle for a wrong size.” Hoyer also pointed out that comfort is one of the overriding features of the clothes. Mostly borne out of making the clothes functional for riders. “You don’t want someone trying to ride their bike, but finding the clothes aren’t fitting, like some spots are bunching up,” Hoyer said. “The idea is that women can wear the clothes on the bikes and then also wear them after they’re done riding.” Harley is also beginning to see the value of being a lifestyle brand and not just a bike dealer. The Harley-Davidson dealership in Portland sells more apparel and non-bike merchandise. “It’s less about the bikes and more about the lifestyle,” Hoyer said. True to the Oregon culture, the store sells coffee. This dealership is unique and the company is keeping an eye on results to see if the format should be replicated. Normally, the company just provides apparel catalogues to its dealers for them to forward on to their customers. The moto style trend continues to be in style, but some stylists are opting for authenticity over designer labels for the easy rider look. 2016-04-26 17:12 Debra Borchardt

21 LEGO technic porsche 911 GT3 RS kit LEGO technic kit uses 2,704 pieces to assemble intricate porsche 911 GT3 RS image courtesy of LEGO in close conjunction with porsche, LEGO is releasing exclusive technic kits of a 1:8 scale ‘911 GT3 RS’. the model in authentic ’lava orange’, uses 2,704 pieces to create a sleek, aerodynamic replica that also has an adjustable rear spoiler. besides many authentic features, the packaging and accessories that come with this complex LEGO technic model also contribute to the building experience. among other things, the kit contains a comprehensive collector’s book with exclusive background information on the development of the model. on top of that, the elements of the individual assembly groups are packed in separate boxes for the first time and together with the detailed instructions, provide an inside into the assembly process of the actual vehicle. one particular highlight is the fully functional porsche double-clutch transmission with four gears and gearshift paddles on the steering wheel. but fans of all ages, will especially love building and playing with the six-cylinder boxer engine with moving pistons underneath the rear lid. inside, the model has a detailed dashboard, a steering wheel with gearshift paddles, racing seats and even a glove compartment concealing an unique serial number. the technic kit will be available in select stores starting august 1st, 2016. ‘when we started to discuss the idea for this new LEGO technic concept, we were determined to create more than just a great building experience,’ explains andrew woodman, senior design manager, LEGO technic. ‘we wanted every aspect of this concept to be special and drive a real desire in fans to own and build it. to do this we knew we needed a partner with the perfect vehicle that was both highly desirable and a true icon. we reached out to porsche as we dreamt of having a porsche 911 as our first model. from our very first meeting it was clear that porsche shared the same passion for the vision of this concept and together we decided upon using the latest 911 GT3 RS as the first vehicle in this LEGO technic series.’ ‘I really wanted to incorporate as many of the unique design details from the real car as possible, especially the shape of the bonnet and roof, the air-intakes and not least the low, sloping angle of the car,’ describes uwe wabra, senior LEGO designer. ‘it was also important to integrate as many of the advanced technical functionalities from the real GT3 RS as we could. the steering and suspension were difficult enough, but the biggest challenge was to create the functioning paddle-shift PDK gearing system.’ 2016-04-26 17:05 Piotr Boruslawski

22 They Are Wearing: Amsterdam Kingpins Denim was king in and around Amsterdam, which was host to both the spring edition of premium denim trade show Kingpins and Blueprint, the city’s annual festival celebrating the fabric. Cropped carrot cuts and culottes set the tone for both genders, while outerwear pieces came on strong via heavily distressed styles and arty visuals. Even the youngest of denimheads caught the bug. 2016-04-26 16:59 Paulina Szmydke

23 dror envisions cultural dome for montréal influenced by buckminster fuller dror envisions dome for montréal influenced by buckminster fuller all images courtesy of dror studio new york-based studio dror has developed a dome concept in celebration of the upcoming 50th anniversary of expo 67 which took place in montréal, canada, back in 1967. the dynamic structure was derived after a tour of the island with the buckminster fuller institute to initiate a discussion around reinvigorating seasonally-used grounds. the dome celebrates the 50th anniversary of expo 67, coinciding with the 375th anniversary of montreal’s founding the scheme would serve as enchanting cultural space that embraces the biosphere created by architect buckminster fuller. envisioned to be sited on an open area of parc jean-drapeau, the structure would be draped in a planted canopy – providing a place for reflection and gathering. presenting a hybrid framework for nature and technology, the 150-meter-wide aluminum dome, with its vegetated sound buffer, offers a backdrop for diverse events all year-round. visitors would be able to sit and gather beneath the planted canopy largely influenced by fuller, studio founder dror benshetrit suggests that the dome provides a companion to the american architect’s lonesome structure, originally built as the united states pavilion for expo 67. ‘interacting like the sun and the moon, our concept engages in a poetic dance with fuller’s design, realizing the park’s potential in a contemporary context,’ he explains. structural and landscape specialists affirm that it is an achievable construction, with capacity up to 60,000 guests the scheme would serve as enchanting cultural space that embraces the biosphere created by buckminster fuller the dome would be located in an open area of parc jean-drapeau 2016-04-26 16:18 Natasha Kwok

24 An Installation Lets You Play with Robots Long-Distance All images courtesy of 9to5 Ever since HAL asserted, “I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that,” different artists have been expressing the anxiety associated with a phenomenon that would come to be known as “the Internet of Things.” This week at The Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta, artists Andy Pruett (of interactive studio Second Story ) and Nate Turley are creating an unique environment dedicated to one question: To what extent do we control the web, and to what extent does it control us? Tomorrow, in association with interactive media space 9to5 , the artists will code custom robots that respond to different objects, lights, and sensors within a controlled space at The Goat Farm. Once the artists code the bots, the project interface then becomes completely collaborative with both viewers who are physically in the space and viewers tuned in from 9to5’s public streaming site. The robots’ environment then becomes manipulated by these outside forces, and “the bots will be public through the site where people anywhere in the world can use to activate and modify elements in the space,” according to 9to5 representative Pablo Gnecco. “For years, the majority of internet traffic is generated by non-human agents. These bots, AIs, and algorithms determine what we see and how we interact with the web. They help us find new music, serve us ads, and track our every move,” Turley’s artist statement reads. “By 2020, an estimated 21 billion internet connected devices will invite these bots into our homes, cars, and workplaces. As the 'internet of things' goes from buzzword to reality, how will these intelligent machines affect our lives when they live in such close proximity?” By merging these online and IRL spaces, a new form of interactive media is created, one that relies on the internet in spite of itself. Will you open the pod bay doors for Dave? To find out, just follow this link for 9to5.tv at 7 PM EST. 9to5 is a final competitor in the Field Experiment , a “public action competition presented by The Goat Farm Arts Center + Hambidge Center.” The winner of the Field Experiment will receive a $20,000 grant to execute their artistic vision in the fall of 2016. Learn more about the Field Experiment on their website here. Related: The Changing Face of Atlanta's Art Scene Tonight: Party Online and Offline at the Same Time Giant Painted Parachutes Touch Down in Detroit 2016-04-26 15:55 Annie Armstrong

25 130 Different People Form One Uncanny CGI Character Ed Atkins: Excerpt from Performance Capture from The Kitchen on Vimeo. As you enter the large, airy exhibition hall where Ed Atkins ' Performance Capture takes place, your eyes immediately converge on the enormous, bellowing video playing across the mostly barren room. The head—and, occasionally the disembodied arms—of a bald, white, male CGI character floats around on a neutral gray background while uttering occasionally bizarre but mostly poetic lines like “I’m basically a totally baroque conceit. The ghost of a universe of really big fleas.” On display at The Kitchen as part of the ongoing exhibition series From Minimalism into Algorithm curated by Tim Griffin and Lumi Tan, Performance Capture highlights Atkins’ ever- ingenious ability to manipulate the intended functions of contemporary imaging technology towards a more philosophical and critical direction. Ed Atkins, Performance Capture, 2015-2016. Video. Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise. Photo by Jason Mandella In this instance, Atkins uses motion capture technology not to simulate an unworldly being like Smaug , but to create an incredibly nondescript human character. And unlike the characters from the The Hobbit franchise, Atkins’ character wasn’t portrayed by a single professional motion capture actor, but instead by over 130 different people from many walks of life. Ed Atkins, Performance Capture, 2015-2016. Video. Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise. Photo by Andrew Nunes The base recordings for Performance Capture happened in 2015 during the Manchester International Festival. The participants included “Performers, including ballet dancers, comedians, and actors, but also administrators, guards, cleaners, the whole gamut,” Atkins tells The Creators Project. “The only rule was their attachment to the festival.” The script read by the participants was written by Atkins, which he states, “Was divided in sequence—no curating of what for whom, just what the next chunk to come up was.” Beyond different gestural nuances, the most jarring effect of the wide range of participants is the immense disconnect between the voice and appearance of the digital character. Every few minutes, the voice speaking to the viewer changes, but the CGI character remains a plain, bald, white, man, and more often than not, the voice emanating from the video does not seem to belong to a figure of such description. Ed Atkins, Performance Capture, 2015-2016. Video. Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise. Photo by Jason Mandella The choice behind the character’s visual appearance has a conceptual rigor behind it: “It was based on the non-neutrality of the protagonist. The process of ‘capturing’ a slew of gorgeous people, ‘rendering’ them down to some essentialized data, squeezing them all into the same white man—this is and had to be a fundamentally violent thing to do to someone,” Atkins continues. “At the heart of the script, the work, the performances—all of it—is more or less explicit critique of the tacit violence that might be inflicted by various technologies in their mediation of humans, their identities, etc.” Ed Atkins performing at The Kitchen. Photo by Andrew Nunes Accompanying the exhibition video are a series of performances by an array of musicians including C. Spencer Yeh , Marcia Bassett , and Matthew Regula. Every Wednesday and Friday at 1:30 PM for the duration of the show, Atkins himself will perform, reading his own written work, including the script to his seminal work, Us Dead Talk Love. For more information on Performance Capture and the show’s upcoming performances, click through to The Kitchen. Ed Atkins’ exhibition runs in New York until May 14th, 2016. Related: Watch 29 Days of Weirdo CGI in 71 Seconds 3D-Scanned Sculptures Create an Alternate Universe in this Short Film Abstract Paintings Bring Sculptural Data to Life 2016-04-26 15:50 Andrew Nunes

26 26 Inside Free Arts NYC’s Mission to Fight Poverty with Art Artist Richard Phillips and Free Arts NYC youth. All images courtesy of Free Arts NYC Today, it's estimated that one in three children growing up in New York City lives in poverty. In 1997, recognizing how poverty restricts the possibility of disadvantaged children, Liz Hopfan, then a second grade teacher and volunteer for Free Arts LA, decided to bring the program to New York City. Over the last two decades, Free Arts NYC has brought free arts educations to over 30,000 children living in the city's underserved communities. Annually, the program currently serves 2,000 youths in upper Manhattan, the Bronx, and the city’s Lower East Side communities. “We use art to help young people and families build the community, creativity, and problem solving skills, that serve as protective factors, to help buffer them against challenges that they run into," explains Free Arts NYC's Chief Program Officer Kai Fierle-Hendrick to The Creators Project. She adds, "Clearly there are a lot of systemic issues kids and families in our programs face. They struggle with income inequality, housing inequality, and educational inequality. Though, there are changes that need to happen, we are working in the now, and if that's their reality we [want] them to develop those skills of social and emotional coping to work through the challenges in their lives. " TAP Teens visit Urbanus Female by U-Ram Choe at The Creators Project's Dumbo event in 2011. The official mission of Free Arts NYC is to “provide underserved children and families with a unique combination of educational arts and mentoring programs that help them to foster the self- confidence and resiliency needed to realize their fullest potential,” according to the organization’s website. Free Arts NYC delivers on their mission by partnering with local community organizations to provide what Fierle-Hendrick calls “cradle-to-college” arts programming. Beginning with their Parents and Children Together with Art (PACT) program, Free Arts NYC offers children as young as three years old, as well as their parents, the opportunity to use art to enhance visual literacy, fine motor, problem solving, and communication skills. The long-term Arts Mentoring Program provides youths, ages six through 13, with regular opportunities to engage in visual arts projects at local community centers. Free Arts NYC also offers Museum Day programs throughout the city and pop-up art festivals that allow young children to explore artmaking. Students in Free Arts NYC’s Teen Arts Program visit Origin by Untitled Visual Artists Free Arts NYC’s Teen Arts Program provides students who are interested in a career in art access to museum and studio visits, arts internships, and artist-led one-on-one portfolio mentorships for students applying to arts high school or a Bachelors of Fine Art program. Last year, students in the program visited Dan Colen’s show at The Brant Foundation in Connecticut, where the artist spoke to the students about his track to becoming a professional artist. In 2015, the teen artists also visited Rashid Johnson’s studio where the artist led a discussion about his practice. Artist Christopher Wool gave Free Arts NYC teens a personal tour of his 2013 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Free Arts NYC’s current artist partners include Richard Phillips, Sara Foldenauer, Amy Park, Pablo Medina, and Paul Villinski. Mentor & Mentee making art In allowing students the opportunity to seriously engage art and a range of artmaking practices over the course of their childhoods, Free Arts NYC not only empowers students to develop the grit and character skills needed to negotiate poverty, it also exposes a diverse group of youths to the arts, an unintended effect being that Free Arts NYC kids are building visual vocabularies that make art more accessible. The children engage art in ways that could lead to careers that might ultimately help diversify the field. A family views teen portfolios at the annual Art From the Heart exhibit at the Bronx Museum. In the future Fierle-Hendrick wants to "continue to build really deep relationships with the communities we're in so we are doing that cradle-to-college work well.” She adds, "The arts are what makes us human. I think having the opportunity to live in that, to be human, and make something and put it out there in the world and say, 'I have this voice. Here it is.' And then have someone else look at it and receive it and validate that and say, 'Yes you do, and I'm listening to you.’ That's a really powerful experience that I think all young people should have. " For more information about Free Arts NYC, click here. Related: 22 Houses Preserve Black History and Culture in Houston A Private Art Collection’s Mission To Help the Homeless The Art Scene Responds To The Troubled Economy 2016-04-26 15:30 Antwaun Sargent

27 The Zone of Indistinguishability: Maneries by Luis Garay When I was young, I imagined the inside of my brain looked like a library. Rows upon rows of tall bookshelves extended farther than the eye could see; where my memories, vocabulary, learned math equations, and everything else I knew were filed away. In this library, little workers ran around like mad to pull up […] 2016-04-26 14:39 By

28 Embroidered Hip-Hop Lyric Lingerie Spins Hard Truths All images courtesy Bethanie Brady Artist Management / (C) Billy Farrell / BFA.com An installation comprised of vintage lingerie, hand- embroidered with lyrics from celebrated rappers, tackles the position of subordination women have long held in hip-hop culture. In an ingenious fashion, artist Zoe Buckman 's exhibition, Every Curve , juxtaposes the genre's often crude attitudes towards women with utterly feminine articles of dress, resulting in thought-provoking objects. In LA's Papillion Art’s main salon, soft daylight enters and casts a warm glow on the hanging undergarments. Silk slips, cone bras, girdles, garter belts and a host of other unmentionables are delicately suspended from the ceiling in this immersive installation, further complemented by sheer colored stockings modeled on various mannequin legs throughout the space. Buckman sourced the lingerie from vintage boutiques, eBay, and Etsy, intentionally selecting items from the early 1900s to the 60s—to illustrate the evolution of women’s bodies throughout the decades. Buckman, a native East Londoner investigates feminist terrain and women’s issues through photography, sculpture, embroidery and installation. Every Curve marks her second solo exhibit, but her first show with Papillion. In her 2015 debut show, Present Life , Buckman displayed her own plastinated placenta, exploring themes of mortality, beauty, and femininity in the process. “The garments have had their own lives before I've worked on them, and by embroidering the lyrics onto them in a long and often painstaking practice. I'm also drawing on a history of female and feminist expression,” Buckman tells The Creators Project. The personal significance of this three-year project is monumental, Buckman explains: “I'm an incredibly nostalgic person, so this mode or expression is also a nod to who I was in the 90s / early ‘00s. The fact that I used to wear vintage slips over jeans and would sew words into my pencil cases at school.” During the 90s, the artist’s formative years were shaped by listening to Biggie Smalls and Tupac, yet her unresolved feelings connected to the sexist overtones lingered on. Ultimately, motherhood became the motivating trigger for her to address the complicated messages. Instead of humming classic lullabies to her newborn daughter, Buckman would find herself reciting verses from Biggie’s 1994 album Ready to Die. Buckman tells The Creators Project, “When you're cooing into your baby's ear lyrics like 'Bitches I like them brainless, guns I like them stainless steel,' it's hard not to find issue with the messaging and want to use your artwork to explore this dialogue.” Every Curve doesn't shy away from hip-hop's sexually explicit themes. Biggie’s lascivious line from "The What"—“Welcome to my center, honeys feel it deep in their placenta”—is visually realized on a hand-embroidered panty. Yet, there is a poetically conflicting relationship between the undergarments and the hard-edged words sewn into them. The text is softened by the dainty embroidery, as if the words somehow seem less painful set against pretty garments. These contradictions run parallel in the music as well, where in the case of Tupac, his emotionality towards women routinely wavered. He glorifies the pleasures of adultery and promiscuity in "I Get Around," yet empathizes with the plight of black women in "Keep Ya Head Up. " Buckman masterfully excels in bringing these concepts to light while simultaneously probing the viewer to seek deeper and more honest responses. The exhibition also continues Buckman’s interests in chastity belts. A neon sculpture in the form of a chastity belt hangs, an antiquated symbol long associated with the torment of women. An installation of several hanging chastity belts fashioned from smooth metal and powder, coated into an array of luscious pastel tones, draws inspiration from 50s diners and kitchen interiors. But on closer inspection, what seems to be eye candy becomes something slightly ominous: the belts have jagged vaginal openings, and no longer seem playful, but rather dangerous. Says Buckman, “They hang from the ceiling on fine thread and look almost like a baby's mobile. They even look kind of charming at first, and I like that play between what we find appealing and what we find problematic.” Every Curve will be on view through April 30 at Papillon Art in Los Angeles. Buckman is also participating in the group exhibit March Madness , curated by Hank Willis Thomas, currently on view through May 1, 2016, at Fort Gansevoort in New York. Related: Nina Simone’s “Young, Gifted and Black” Inspires an Exhibition in South Africa Ok, Now We Really Know Who Has The Largest Vocabulary In Hip-Hop Boombox Sculptures Color the History of Hip-Hop 2016-04-26 14:45 Jasmin Hernandez

29 Satellite's Gorgeous 'Earth as Art' Photos No, these wildly-colorful images aren't abstract paintings. The US Geological Survey has released the fourth installment in its stunning " Earth As Art " series, selected from the very best of the 700-odd daily images taken by Landsat 8, a satellite that makes its way across the world every 16 days. Related: NASA Photographs Reveal Unbelievable 'Alphabet in the Sky' "At first glance, science and art might seem like an unlikely pairing. Yet throughout history, the intersection of these two fields has often resulted in science-based works of sublime beauty," wrote the USGS in an announcement about the 37 new photographs. Since 1972, the Landsat satellites have kept a visual record of the planet's changing landscape, showing how our coastlines, continents, and islands have been altered over the years, both through natural and human impact. The "Earth as Art" series began in the late 1990s, when staff at the USGS's Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center began collecting the best images beamed back from the satellite. Related: Behold Fantastic Space Photographs on the Hubble Telescope's 25th Anniversary "Every once in a while we'd see an image that was so amazing, so remarkable, that we started squirreling them away," said EROS engineer Jon Christopherson in a statement. "It wasn't long before we had a drawer full of spectacular images. " Taken from the far remove of space, Landsat images offer a unique perspective on the Earth and its geological features, which can appear strikingly beautiful from above. The unexpected patterns and vivid colors featured in Landsat photography could just have easily sprung from the easel of a great artist. Related: Photographer Astronaut Captures Stunning Painterly Views of the Earth The first "Earth as Art" photo set was released in 2002, and the images were printed and displayed across the world, including at Capitol Hill and the Library of Congress. The current Landsat 8 satellite was launched in 2013, and the latest batch of photographs were released by the USGS in March. The photos will be the subject of a travelling exhibition, which will first be displayed at the USGS Headquarters in Reston, Virginia. See images from the fourth installment of "Earth As Art" below: Follow artnet News on Facebook. 2016-04-26 14:06 Sarah Cascone

30 Moscow and St. Petersburg, Then and Now [Photos] Mauro Restiffe. Inside Out Window, 1996/2015. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy Mauro Restiffe. Galeria Fortes Vilaça Brazilian photographer Mauro Restiffe was worried about how the Russian public would respond to his depictions of their country. A show of his photographs, Post Soviet Russia 1995/2016 , opened on April 7 at Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. “I’m a foreign artist looking at a culture and then showing a body of work that was commissioned in a country that is not mine,” he tells Creators Project. The exhibition features two series of black-and-white photographs, the first taken in 1995 in Moscow and St. Petersburg, when Restiffe lived in the country. He photographed the second series over the last two years—Garage invited him to document the transformation of an old Soviet-era restaurant into their new building, a project conceived by renowned architect Rem Koolhaas. Restiffe Skyped with The Creators Project from Sao Paolo. His careful consideration of Russian culture is as evident when he speaks as it is in his photographs, many of which focus on the details of both the landscape and more intimate interiors. Unsurprisingly, Restiffe had nothing to worry about—Moscow received his work quite well. Mauro Restiffe. Brutal Mirror, 2015. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy Mauro Restiffe. Galeria Fortes Vilaça The Creators Project: How is the exhibition set up? Mauro Restiffe: There’s one room. The display is very cinematic in a way that has modulations. You read from one thing into another. Things are interconnected in a way that becomes very fluid. You mention the cinematic. In a film there’s some plot, some climax. Does this come through when you see the show? I don’t think it happens that way. But there are some big variations in scale. There are only three large photos in the show, and maybe those create this climax aspect. But this was not my intention. It was more to modulate and to break with a rhythm that was already established. In my current practice, I present more large-scale photos, but the early Russian photos were very intimate and smaller scale. I wanted to keep that and at the same time refer to what I’m doing now. You see two moments in my career and technique. Mauro Restiffe. Corner Theatre, 1995/2015. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy Mauro Restiffe. Galeria Fortes Vilaça Why photograph architecture instead of people to get a sense of a society? I’ve always been interested in architecture. Not necessarily photographing a building itself, but in contextualizing it. To have it framed within our time or to an event or to something that connects architecture to daily life. I always try to consider it as a background to something happening in the foreground. It’s not a direct way of looking at things. I’m always trying to deviate a bit. I’m very interested in the mundane aspect of places. Mauro Restiffe. Interior Perspectives. 1995/2015. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy Mauro Restiffe. Galeria Fortes Vilaça How have your connections with Moscow and St. Petersburg changed? In the 90s, I lived in St. Petersburg. It was very small, very nostalgic, and very different from my experiences in big cities like Sao Paolo and New York. When I went to Moscow in the 90s it appeared to be very connected to my experience in big cities. When I went back to Moscow for this project, I fell in love. It’s very intense, very dynamic. Moscow has this amazing energy. When I went back to St. Petersburg, my connection was more related to the time I’d spent there. I stayed in the same apartment where I lived in the 90s. I connected with the woman who hosted me for eight months. She and the apartment are in photos in the show. Post-Soviet Russia 1995/2015 is on view at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art until June 26. Related: It Is About Leaving a Mark: A First Look Inside Russia's New Contemporary Art Museum Ping Pong, Dumplings, and DIY T-Shirts as Art Nuclear Waste Is Art in the Work of Taryn Simon 2016-04-26 14:05 Alina Cohen

31 Layer by Layer Reconstructions of Old Master Paintings | Conservation Lab Reconstruction (progress image at left, final image at right) of Portrait of a Lady by Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1460, completed by Kristin deGhetaldi, painting conservator and PhD candidate at the University of Delaware In art institutions across the globe, time machines and investigation rooms exist behind closed doors. Dusty artworks go in and come out looking centuries younger; artists’ secrets are brought to light; and hidden, unfinished images emerge from behind famous compositions. Every week, we'll peek beneath the microscope and zoom in on the art of preservation, where art meets science and just a little bit of magic: this is Conservation Lab. To reconstruct an Old Master painting, you first have to deconstruct it. In the art conservation program of the University of Delaware , students gather as much forensic evidence as they can to peel back the layers of museum masterpieces, then set to work replicating their artists’ gestures, producing historically accurate reconstructions. In the process, they revive archaic studio practices: grinding raw pigments, preparing animal glue, and separating egg yolks to form tempera. Egg tempera was the medium of choice for many artists of the early Italian Renaissance. The yolk sac was pierced and drained, and mussel shells were used as palettes to mix egg yolk, pigment, and water. View the full process here. The point of a reconstruction is not to produce a copy of the painting as it appears today, but rather to extrapolate how the painting would have looked upon completion. According to assistant professor Brian Baade, himself a graduate of UD’s art conservation master's program, this type of exercise was a large part of American students’ training in the early 20th century, and then fell by the wayside as focus shifted towards new technologies. “That’s all really essential,” Baade tells The Creators Project. “But if you want to talk about paint handling, you need to reconstruct historic recipes and see how the paint moves. None of the paint materials we have today resemble historical paint materials at all. It’s all synthesized, and the pigments are very different. I thought it was important to introduce reconstruction in the training.” Painting steps in the reconstruction of Caravaggio’s The Musicians , c. 1595, by undergraduate student Narae Kim. While working on a 14th century painting, for example, a student might use pouncing, an underdrawing method common in that period: After sketching the composition on paper, the outlines are perforated, then transferred onto the final panel by pushing charcoal through the pierced holes. A Rembrandt reconstruction would likely require the preparation of a double ground popular in the 17th century, consisting of an off-white layer atop an earth-colored layer. To make ultramarine blue, brace yourself: the multi-step process of extracting the pigment from the lapis lazuli stone is a slow return on investment. Artists used several layers of animal glue to reduce the absorbency of wooden panels. The glue was obtained by extracting collagen from boiled fish bladders, bones, and leather/parchment clippings. View the full process here. Before any raw painting materials are manipulated, however, careful study of existing research is required. X-rays of the artwork might have revealed compositional changes or relevant information about its construction. An infrared photograph may have captured a preliminary sketch or underdrawing, and examination of the painting in UV light could have led prior scholars to identify surface coatings and materials. Microscopic cross-sections extracted from the painting might also exist, exposing paint layers and pigments. Beyond that, published research about the artist’s other work, and about traditional painting practices of the time, can help complete the picture. Reconstruction of Giotto’s Madonna and Child from c. 1320/30 (with each step of the process laid out in cross-sections), and embellishments being added with a metal stylus and metal punch on top of the gilding (at left). View the full process here on the Kress Reconstruction Project website. Baade’s passion for spreading knowledge of historic techniques extends beyond the classroom. Since 2009, he has spearheaded the online Kress Reconstruction Project with conservator and doctoral candidate Kristin deGhetaldi, documenting their eight reconstructions of works by Giotto, El Greco, Hans Memling, and others, and several more virtual reconstructions. “We both thought that one of the things we don’t see out there in the museum world is enough education about the materiality of artwork,” comments Baade while explaining the origins of the project. Whether you’re browsing the website or lucky enough to take one of Baade’s classes, you’re sure to come out with a better appreciation for the craft involved in producing a painting circa 1320, and beyond. Related: Vivid Color Projections Revive Faded Works of Art | Conservation Lab Microscopic Slivers of Artworks Reveal Hidden Truths | Conservation Lab [Exclusive] Watch A Clip From "Art And Craft," A Documentary On One Of America's Most Prolific Art Forgers 2016-04-26 13:30 Noémie Jennifer

32 zaha hadid architects wins competition to build vast technopark in moscow it has been revealed that zaha hadid architect’s competition proposal to build the technopark for russian bank sberbank has beat out schemes submitted by firms such as foster+partners and fuksas. to be located at the skolkovo innovation center – russia’s equivalent to silicon valley – in moscow, the vast facility will be home to the laboratories and campuses of russia’s growing IT, biomedical, energy, nuclear and space innovations. sberbank is the market leader of the russian banking and economic circulatory system the total area at 131,000 square meters will become the russian bank’s headquarters for developing IT and accommodate around 10,000-12,000 people working in the departments of information technology and marketing. ‘the necessity to innovate and collaborate is fundamental to sberbank’s operations. our research into interconnected, multi-function environments has driven the sberbank technopark design. it responds to the bank’s requirements for enhanced communication, interaction and diversification. the design reconfigures working relationships and adopts a holistic approach to creating an engaging environment that offers a diversified range of facilities both internally and externally.‘ comments christos passas, project director at ZHA the 131,000 sqm facility will become the bank’s hub for IT innovations, accommodating the 10,000-12,000 people the large-scale development has been given the go-ahead with construction to begin in 18 months time and estimated to take two years to complete. ‘the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted zaha hadid to the Russian avant-garde. she realized how architecture can enrich creativity; how space itself can enhance dynamism, complexity, coherence and continuity. these principles are embedded within the sberbank technopark design,’ continues passas. zaha hadid architects continues to unveil completed and prospective projects since zaha hadid’s passing such as the recently opened salerno ferry terminal in italy which was inaugurated by italian prime minister matteo renzi. 2016-04-26 13:25 Natasha Kwok

33 klafs S1 retractable sauna system forget everything you already know about where saunas can be installed. german company klafs now wants everyone to enjoy the calming experience (even in tiny apartments) with the ‘S1’ – a retractable sauna roughly the size of a bookcase. when it came to it, there was always one drawback to private saunas – space. with that in mind, the designers at klafs created a completely self-contained, mobile system that can be moved just like a closet. after about three years of intensive development work and a whole range of technological developments, the sauna is only 60 centimeters deep fully retracted. by pressing a button on the front control panel, the ‘S1′ extends in just 20 seconds. the ‘eMove’ technology consists of three elements which can be completely fitted into each other virtually silently. inside, a reclining bench can be easily pulled forward after the cabin has been extended offering additional comfort. an extremely robust wood sandwich wall construction is 40% lighter than the one used in a conventional sauna. the company provides trims in either knot-free eastern hemlock or waxed walnut as well as swiss pine. ‘eMove’ consists of three elements the compact ‘varius’ heater features an elegant flock finish that automatically moves out of its ‘garage’ under the bench when the sauna is opening. to provide a full service experience, klaf also introduced a flush-mounted LED lighting system with six preset colors and loudspeakers that connect to a smartphone via bluetooth. inside, the wooden benches fold in different variations the ‘S1′ sauna is a great addition to a workout room or office 2016-04-26 13:10 Piotr Boruslawski

34 Cevdet Erek Will Represent Turkey at the 2017 Venice Biennale Cevdet Erek. Volkan Kızıltunç. COURTESY İKSV, ISTANBUL. The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Art (İKSV) announced earlier today that artist, musician and academic Cevdet Erek will represent Turkey at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Erek’s work builds on his interest in architecture and sound design through the creation of site- specific immersive environments that seek to challenge perceptions of space and time. He’s called his series of studies “A Room of Rhythms.” Born in Istanbul, Erek created his first installation in 2012 for Documenta 13. Since then, “A Room of Rhythms” has appeared in various forms at several international festivals including last year’s 14th Istanbul Biennial and this past March on Cockatoo Island for the Biennale of Sydney. When Erek isn’t creating his art or teaching, he plays drums for a Turkish prog-rock and metal band called Nekropsi. Erek’s production and curatorial team for his Venice installation have yet to be selected. 2016-04-26 13:10 Robin Scher

35 Dealer Spotlight: David Totah from TOTAH Gallery TOTAH gallery is a relative newcomer to the Lower East Side art scene, and brings with it a breath of fresh air. Offering a collaborative space between artist and dealer, its founder David Totah describes the venue as a “cultural hub harboring a variety of projects which transcend the typical definition of a gallery. " Its current exhibition, “Verba Volant Scripta Manent," features the work of heavy-hitters Mel Bochner and Alighiero Boetti , but the gallery also represents a variety of work by emerging artists as well. Here, David Totah explains what brought him to the world of dealing, and what art—in particular, the work of Edward Hopper —means to him. You don't come from a traditional art background. Tell us about your time in finance, and what led you here. I grew up surrounded by art and artists. Coming from a family of gallerists and collectors, choosing that career early on would have been the most traditional thing to do. After graduating from college, I entered my professional life in finance in order to gain my independence and live in my city of choice, New York. At 29, I started my own business: a boutique firm specializing in hedge funds investments. Seven years later, however, I was running out of steam. My heart was no longer in it, and I realized that I was ready to do what I was always meant for. I started using our offices as a showcase for the art I was collecting, and gradually transitioned my activities away from finance. All along, art had been my refuge, a place where I sourced inspiration and passion, an escape from my professional life. My active involvement with art started when I was 19. Not being much of an academic, I decided to educate myself on my own terms, and opening the gallery was the natural next step on my path from art observer to collector, then private dealer. I needed to express my creative side more actively. It is my intention to create a space where creativity and inspiration are in constant dialogue. How do you select the artists that you represent? How much of the selection process is your personal taste? I always let myself be guided by my instinct. My selection process for the gallery will be the same as the one I have employed since I started collecting. For me, collecting is forming a conversation with artists who stir the soul; a subtle dialogue where words aren't always necessary. It's about surrounding yourself with a familiar energy that makes you feel at home and that sometimes, paradoxically, takes you out of your comfort zone, opening new windows within your subconscious. The choice of artists will be orchestrated by a mutual and equal convergence towards each other. Good alchemy is the essence of a successful collaboration, and we will build our program gradually and organically based on these principles. What has been your most memorable experience in the art world? There have been a few, but the one I'd like to talk about is my connection with Edward Hopper that led to a connection with Wim Wenders. I have always been in love with Edward Hopper's paintings, and have been drawn towards artists who were able to emulate mystery, solitude, and metaphysical perplexities. A few years ago, I was offered several photographs by Wim Wenders by a friend working in a London gallery. His work resonates with that Hopper-like feeling. One day, I saw one of his photos in an art magazine— Street corner, Butte Montana —so I contacted that London dealer, and asked about that photo. Her answer was that the gallery didn't have it, but when she saw my determination she was able to obtain one of the two artist's proofs for me. I was very excited until she called a few hours later apologizing, and saying that I wouldn't be able to have the photo until February—we were in August. When I asked why, she said that she had just found that the photos had been selected to introduce the retrospective of Edward Hopper at the Grand Palais in Paris in October 2012. When I walked into the exhibition, the first room had Hopper's biography on one wall, and Wender's photo on the opposite wall. That episode led to a conscious recognition that my quest within the arts had to do with soul connections. If you could own any artwork, what would it be and why? I would want to own two: One would be Edward Hopper's Soir Bleu. Although I am typically extremely drawn to the very explicitly American atmospheres in Hopper's work, this painting—a coffee shop scene in Paris—is one that strikes me deeply. The alienation of the clown is underscored by being in the midst of a festive crowd with whom he shares very little. His loneliness among people surpasses any feeling of solitude one can experience in nature, surrounded by no one. There is something otherworldly about him, a melancholic angelic figure who has to cope with being on earth, surrounded by beings he is unable to connect with. The second one is a Barnett Newman zip painting, more specifically, Onement VI. Its silent strength and rigor eradicates any excess of sentimentalism, an antidote for melancholia despite the blue color. The lack of ornament and its bold simplicity in transmitting a message that needs no explanations makes it monumentally powerful. Despite the abstract nature of the painting, Newman is able to express a metaphysical statement and enable us to wonder through this vertical aperture, like a portal towards another dimension, plunging us into the immensity of the infinite. The artnet Gallery Network is a community of the world's leading galleries offering artworks by today's most collected artists. Learn more about becoming a member here , or explore our member galleries here. 2016-04-26 13:02 artnet Galleries

36 Artist Matt Moore and Olympic Gymnast Shannon Miller Help Hershey’s Countdown to Rio Games To rev up Olympic fans before this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Hershey’s is retooling the Times Square location as Team USA Celebration Central with Team USA themes and products. Five-time Olympic gymnast medalist and Hershey’s brand ambassador Shannon Miller, a standout at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics, will talk up the first-year partnership with Team USA at an event in the store Wednesday morning. Artist Matt Moore helped create the set of athlete illustrations featured to commemorate Hershey’s partnership with the USOC in a large canvas at the store. The painting is meant to mark Team USA’s 100-Day Countdown to the Games. There will be Hershey- branded Olympic apparel at the kickoff event, but it will not be available for sale, according to a company spokeswoman. (Miller also has her own activewear collection with Alpha Factor.) Moore, whose portfolio includes work for Nike, New Balance, Apple, Gravis and Ray-Ban among others, also has his own action-sports inspired line, Glyph Cue, as well as a home line called Core Deco. For his Hershey’s endeavor, he helped out with the early packaging designs for Hershey’s senior director of global design Ron Burrage and the Cincinnati-based creative agency GoDutch. 2016-04-26 13:00 Rosemary Feitelberg

37 Latest Canada Goose Campaign Features Ultra-Distance Runner More Articles By The film features a voiceover by Zahab, and reveals that when he “completed his 111-day run across the Sahara Desert, he unearthed a passion for ultra-long distance running,” the company said, adding that the “photo diary video explores what motivated this life-changing feat” and how Zahab’s “relentless endurance has inspired a new generation of adventure-seekers.” The “Out There” campaign was launched last fall with a film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker and director Paul Haggis. 2016-04-26 12:57 Arthur Zaczkiewicz

38 CASE REAL renovates and extends traditional kyoto dwelling CASE-REAL renovates and extends a traditional japanese dwelling in kyoto all images by takumi ota in gosho-higashi, a small japanese town located in the vicinity of kyoto, architecture firm CASE- REAL has renovated and extended a building in a residential neighborhood. the project was completed for a couple: a creative director involved in many food related projects, and a gallerist who has a strong interest in traditional japanese craftsmanship. consequently, the design team sought to create a sequence of spaces that combined these passions — a place where a range of different functions influenced one another. the scheme is located in a small japanese town in the vicinity of kyoto existing elements of the building have been repaired or partially renovated, with the exception of a completely new tearoom and a guest facility that is contained within an elevated white volume. this technique ensures that the structure’s spatial characteristics are maintained, guaranteeing a traditional, yet comfortable living environment. the tearoom features an elongated table capable of hosting six guests, and borders an adjacent gallery that exhibits a selection of pottery. a work room and storage area has also undergone renovation, oriented to face the garden at the rear of the plot. access is provided from the adjacent street existing elements of the building have been repaired or partially renovated a new palette of materials and colors has been introduced the tearoom features an elongated table capable of hosting six guests locally sourced timber has been used throughout the project the home is oriented to face a garden at the rear of the plot design: koichi futatusmata, yasushi arikawa construction: nakatani building firm lighting design: shoji hiroyasu plants design and construction: keisuke kanto manufacture of furniture: koichi touji, yuji yamamoto manufacture of fixtures: bernhard lutzenberger, konbu ironmonger photography: takumi ota 2016-04-26 12:45 Philip Stevens

39 nendo's ki kitchen + bathroom schemes for scavolini structured on containers and wooden shelves nendo's ki kitchen + bathroom schemes for scavolini structured on containers and wooden shelves the ‘ki’ collection combines the prestigious italian craftsmanship of scavolini and the distinctive approach of nendo. in japanese, ‘ki’ simultaneously means container and wood, thus nendo’s kitchen and bathroom environments take these elements to create an expressive system — generous white basins arranged along wooden shelves — that can be repeated infinitely, in a pure and essential way. through ‘ki’, scavolini and nendo envision new ways of inhabiting space. the result is a storage network that creates dominating compositions that come in an exclusive range of decorative finishes specifically created for scavolini, including two wood-effect nuances that blend artisan know-how with advanced technologies. the container element can also be defined as a wash basin the ‘ki’ bathroom environment sees the container replace traditional wall units, as well as being defined as a wash basin, offering both lay-on, semi-recessed, under-top and free-standing versions. mirrors, rigorous slabs that rest on counter tops and against walls, conceal a practical LED lighting system that comes in pendant or wall-mounted options. the latter is an additional furnishing element and has been specifically designed for the collection. similarly, freestanding towel racks can house a container for extra storage. the ‘ki’ kitchen is characterized by linear, island and peninsula composisions the ‘ki’ kitchen space is characterized by linear, island and peninsula compositions. here, containers rest on shelves and function as wall units; or reappear in the sink and hob units. doors, profile handles, up stands, back panels, plinths and tops come in a single finish. base units and baskets can be opened using a door — with a shaped handle and a top with a 45° slanted profile — developed especially for the model. nendo has also designed a hood to complete the entire scheme. nendo’s ‘ki’ kitchen and bathroom for scavolini were presented at eurocucina and salone internazionale del bagno during salone del mobile 2016. the ‘ki’ kitchen scheme sees containers rest on shelves and function as wall units ki: a new kitchen and bathroom concept by nendovideo courtesy of scavolini 2016-04-26 12:30 Andrea Chin

40 Do Artists Share Traits with Psychopaths? If you consider yourself a creative person, you just might have more in common than you think with psychopaths. According to a new study in the journal Personality and Individual Differences conducted by a psychologists at De La Salle University in Manila, led by Adrianne John Galang, artists, actors, and musicians often share key personality traits with individuals who have "psychopathic traits. " Based on their findings, reports the Daily Mail , it appears that creative individuals tend to have higher levels of emotional disinhibition, and to be prone toward dishonesty and risk taking. Luckily, artists don't appear to share psychopaths' attitudes toward cruelty, although the findings do seem to explain the stereotype of the arrogant artist or the narcissistic musician, prone to pitching a fit over the smallest issue. "Emotional disinhibition, in the form of psychopathic boldness, is actually integral to some creative personalities and functionally related to the creative process," according to the study. "A creative field might not just shape a person into a more arrogant or dishonest personality, it might be actively selecting them, not for the sake of having disagreeable traits, but because such traits meaningfully co-vary with creativity itself. " The results back up some of the existing stereotypes that tend to follow creative types. "Stories of artists who struggled through a series of failed relationships and were even cruel to those around them have also helped to fuel suspicions that creativity may have roots in psychopathy," notes the Daily Mail. Other recent scientific studies have found that our brains are hard-wired to appreciate art , and that our ability to do so has evolved over time. Meanwhile, artists' brains may be more fully developed , and creating art has even been found to improve brain function. As for Galang, he believes that the results of his study might help foster creativity "in both educational and professional settings" by promoting the "cultivation of forms of boldness, while seeking to mitigate the more harmful forms of disinhibition. " Follow artnet News on Facebook. 2016-04-26 12:11 Sarah Cascone

41 -Worthy Gaming Comes to Life in Iceland Screencap by the author The virtual reality experience, as it exists now, is fairly passive. Viewers look around through the headset, interacting by turning in 360 degrees and manipulating objects with controllers. But the Iceland-based video game company CCP Games has a very different idea for virtual reality. They want to give players an active, full-body experience. At Fanfest 2016, the company’s annual gathering in Reykjavik, CCP premiered new footage and gameplay for Project Arena , a Tron-like VR game where players hit glowing virtual discs back and forth at each other. The version of Project Arena seen at Fanfest, which works with the Oculus Touch and HTC Vive controllers, has two modes. In the first, Road to VR’s Dominic Brennan reports , players use a virtual paddle to hit the disk into a central net with gravitational properties. Once the disc passes through the net, it is accelerated toward the opponent. In the second, “brawl mode,” players use a shield to deflect the disc back at their opponent. The opponent can either do the same or dodge the disc. New mixed reality test footage shows off a player in “brawl mode,” which gives it a spectator-sport quality, which is reportedly what CCP would like to eventually see. Now word yet as to exactly how the company will make Project Arena an eSport for others to watch. But if they can pull it off, welcome to Final Fantasy. Click here to check out more VR games from CCP. Related: A Tron Lightcycle Rollercoaster Is Coming to Disney Shanghai Virtually Climb a Giant California Redwood in This 360° Video Explore Salvador Dalí's World in Virtual Reality 2016-04-26 12:10 DJ Pangburn

42 An Awards Show Pays Tribute to Virtual Reality as an Art Form Images courtesy Kaleidoscope Born in San Francisco in 2014 as a small meetup of VR enthusiasts, Kaleidoscope has become the biggest VR community for creators. It's also an international traveling showcase of the best in today's virtual reality as an art form. Kaleidoscope honors the most tech advanced VR projects today, from film and art, to games and other fully-immersive experiences. René Pinnell , the CEO and founder of the Kaleidoscope Awards, tells The Creators Project about the short-term and long-term future of this emerging technology and its implications for artists, designers, and programmers. Not only has Pinnell designed products and founded companies, he's also a filmmaker and designer who's sold a TV pilot to MTV, produced the comedy show Backpack Picnic , and directed the feature documentary King of Texas. He founded Kaleidoscope with erstwhile Industrial Light & Magic technical director Michael Breymann in order to draw more attention to the work of VR visionaries like Tyler Hurd ( BUTTS ) and Skillman & Hackett ( Tilt Brush ). "We wanted a forum to celebrate these pioneers," Pinnell says. "That was the genesis of Kaleidoscope, and is still is our guiding principle. " The debut edition of the festival visited 10 cities across North America. This year, the festival expanded to three continents and 10 international cities. It attracted more than 4,000 attendees who experienced the projects on Gear VR, the Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive VR headsets, all exhibited with Wevr Transport. Tana Pura by Mike Tucker is a visual symphony of synesthesia that won this year's Kaleidoscope Grand Prize for Excellence in Cinematic Virtual Reality. But the nonlinear Clouds by James George and Jonathan Minard, which won Best Documentary, is among the most salient of the VR presentations on the roster. Billed as a "real- time executable created with C++," the groundbreaking interactive documentary features 40 artists, designers, and hackers with algorithmically generated visuals. The user determines the course of the experience by interacting with the narrative. Equal parts game, cinema, and documentary, Clouds is a visual representation of the most up-to-date applications of VR right now. An internal review committee selects the festival winners, with judges applying specific criteria when choosing finalists. "We look for VR experiences that add something new to the evolving language of cinematic virtual reality," says Pinnell. "We also place an emphasis on projects created by independent artists. " After producing more than 20 high-profile international events, Pinnell says he and his team have discovered that independent artists are the driving force behind the VR creator movement. "The reason is because independent artists are willing to take bigger creative risks," he says. "Creative risks are how we invent a new art form. " CLOUDS - Overview from Deepspeed media on Vimeo. Given that VR is still in its infancy, Pinnell agrees that there are several challenges that accompany the advancements. "The first generation of consumer VR headsets are finally here and the quality is good enough for audiences to lose themselves in... virtual worlds," he says. "But it's still the early days. The headsets are clunky and heavy and the computers needed to run them are expensive. And as fast as the VR creator movement is growing, there is still not nearly enough content. 2016 and 2017 are going to be bumpy years for the VR industry known for wild growth, but [there’s] also frustration, as insanely high [consumer] expectations crash against the reality of VR. " According to Pinnell, these obstacles will likely be traversed with a convergence between AR and VR that will shrink the size of the clunky headsets into something Pinnell believes will resemble a pair of ordinary glasses. That’s precisely why it's important to pay attention to VR pioneers today, because they’re paving the road for the creators of the future. And despite its drawbacks, Pinnell remains optimistic about the future of VR. He says, "In five years the virtual reality industry will be on a hyperbolic growth curve with a clear trajectory to overtake film, TV, and traditional gaming as the dominant form of entertainment. " To learn more about Kaleidoscope, click here. Related: VR Takes Center Stage at Tribeca Film Festival 2016 Hieronymus Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights' Is Now a VR Universe This Guy Just Spent 48 Hours in Virtual Reality 2016-04-26 12:05 Tanja M

43 japser morrison's formal and functional 'duos' chair collection for andreu world the ‘duos’ collection of stackable chairs by jasper morrison for andreu world, are characterised by their formal posture and functionality. the design which is available as a chair and an armchair is offered in various options such as upholstered seat and back, only in wood or with wood back and self-supporting mesh seat, permitting greater adaptability, ergonomics and recovery after use. the light, timeless and very comfortable collection which was presented during salone del mobile 2016, reduces the pictorial outline of this furniture piece to its simplest form, whilst expressing an elegant, effortless sensibility. jasper morrison reduces the pictorial outline of a chair to its simplest form ‘duos’ is available both as a chair and an armchair 2016-04-26 12:00 Shuhei Senda

44 Artist Turns Bomber Jackets into Patchwork Quilts Simon Mullan, Men Down, 2015. Image courtesy of the artist Flight jackets, or, bomber jackets, depending on where you live, have long been a part of contemporary fashion, both on-screen and off— be they on the backs of skinheads or the back of Ryan Gosling. London-based Austrian artist Simon Mullan has taken this iconic jacket and turned it into quilts as part of an upcoming exhibition Die Fläche (The Surface) at new gallery PM/AM in Marylebone, London. Referencing the jacket's ties to subcultures— mods, punks, neo-Nazis—military groups and its links to the US Air Force of the mid-20th century, Mullan creates large and small textile quilts from the disassembled nylon garments. Turning, for instance, the famous orange lining into a patchwork collage. There are also "skinned" versions for a series called Naked Bomber , where the jackets appear as stripped back remants of the subcultures they were formely part of. It all forms his Alpha Series which subverts, through the more delicate act of quilting, the powerful qualities of masculinity and military prowess associated with the jackets. "For the ongoing series Alpha , the artist toys with the objects semiotics," notes PM/AM. "The familiar item of clothing, a uniform, adopted by ring wing militants, Hollywood actors and Ukrainian rebel alike—are cut up into pieces and then roughly stitched together in large fabric collages. This metaphorical stripping, destruction, and then patching back together provides an unconventional portrait of a collective identity, whilst simultaneously revealing its literal and figurative fragility. " Simon Mullan, Indian Summer, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist As well as fashion, Mullan also uses other everyday items in his work in the exhibition, bathroom tiles. For Popularis , the mundane material is used to create abstract and minimalist compositions exploring social class. "Fascinated by mechanical, industrial and construction skills, the artist transforms common bathroom ceramics into abstract wall art and sometimes alternative environments. The artist challenges the viewers preconceptions, collapsing concepts of high and low culture and blurring notions of class. " Simon Mullan, Jim, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist Simon Mullan, Marius, 2015. Image courtesy of the artist Simon Mullan, Navy, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist Simon Mullan, Heat, 2015. Image courtesy of the artist Simon Mullan, Naked Bomber, Pinks. Image courtesy of Belmacz Gallery Simon Mullan's Die Fläche runs April 29 to May 30, 2016 at PM/AM, 259-269 Old Marylebone Road, London NW1 5RA. Click here to learn more about the artist. Related: Dutch Designers Just Launched an Anti-Surveillance Coat Let the Sun Charge Your Phone in This "Solar Parka" This Camera-Studded Jacket Catches Your Assailants In The Act 2016-04-26 12:00 Kevin Holmes

45 Pablo Bronstein Fuses Dance and Design for Tate Britain Commission Related Venues Tate Britain Artists Pablo Bronstein “Historical Dances in an Antique Setting” is the title of this year’s annual Tate Britain Commission by London-based Argentinian artist Pablo Bronstein. Situated in the Tate’s neo-classical Duveen Galleries, “Historical Dances in an Antique Setting” features a continuous live performance by three dancers interacting with a site-specific performance space The work combines Bronstein’s interests in the potential inaccuracies that occur when the past is re-created and the Italian concept of sprezzatura (studied carelessness). The performance space is defined by two large scale architectural structures overlaid with images of Tate Britain’s exterior architecture, visually “turning the gallery inside out.” As they move through the galleries, the dancers will interact with the architectural elements of the installation, blending elements of Baroque choreography with minimalist contemporary dance. Pablo Bronstein said: “Grand architecture is one of the things I’m most interested in, so it was a rare opportunity to be able to create work in such a unique setting as the Duveen Galleries. “The commission also presented a perfect and challenging opportunity to work with performance on a large scale.” Describing himself as an “architectural provocateur,” Bronstein’s practice spans drawing, sculpture, video, and performance. His Tate Britain Commission reflects his ongoing interest in architecture, history, the Baroque period, social customs, and spectacle. “Historical Dances in an Antique Setting” is the latest in a series of commissions where artists are invited to develop a new work in response to the grand space of Tate Britain’s neo-classical Duveen Galleries. 2016-04-26 11:53 Nicholas Forrest

46 Call for Applicants: Walker Art Center Mildred Friedman Design Fellowship 2016–2017 The Walker is pleased to announce that its 2016- 2017 Mildred Friedman Design Fellowship is now open for applications. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE: MAY 23rd Since 1980, the Walker’s Design department has maintained a graphic design fellowship program that provides recent graduates the opportunity to work in a professional design studio environment. Selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants, fellows come from graphic design programs throughout the United States and abroad representing a diverse range of design programs, such as Art Center College of Design, California Institute of the Arts, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Eastern Michigan University, Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, NC State University, Rhode Island School of Design, Royal College of Art, Werkplaats Typografie, and Yale University, among many others. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: Ideal candidates will be firmly grounded in visual design principles and the print design process with some experience in interaction design. In addition to print-based projects such as exhibition identities, wayfinding, and collateral materials, this year’s fellow will also work on select online publishing initiatives. The fellow will join an accomplished team of professionals known for creating industry-leading work. Immersed in the Design department, which includes Editorial, Photography, and Videography, fellows gain a deeper understanding of design, work on projects with rich, interesting content, and are expected to produce work to the highest standards of design excellence. See samples of previous fellow’s work here and in this video highlighting 75 years of Walker design. The fellows will also be key contributors to the Design department’s blog, The Gradient —so an interest in the discourse of graphic design and contemporary culture is highly desirable. Fellows are salaried, full-time employees and are involved in all aspects of the design process, including client meetings and presentations through production and development. Duration of fellowship: September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2017 HOW TO APPLY: For consideration, submit the following materials by PDF attachments only: 1. a letter of interest; 2. a resume, including names and contact information of 3 references; 3. a PDF portfolio containing 8–10 examples of graphic design work (total file size can be no larger than 19 MB, otherwise your file will be rejected). Email application packets to [email protected]. If you do not receive an automatic confirmation of your application, please send another note to the same email address, without any attachments. No phone calls please. For more information, visit our fellowship page. Also check out the Walker’s job listing. April 23, 2016 2016-04-26 14:39 By

47 fabian oefner explodes iconic sports cars using thousands of photos swiss artist fabian oefner returns with a new series of exploded cars, each meticulously created by deconstructing scale-models, and photographing the components in a precise position — thus creating the illusion of a dissembled and dismantled automobile. ‘disintegrating II’ — a sequel to a previous iteration published by designboom here — comprises five images that appear to be computer-generated renderings, rather than the real photographs they are. ‘I have always been fascinated by the clean, crisp looks of 3D renderings,’ oefner says. ‘so I tried to use that certain type of aesthetic and combine it with the strength of real photography.’ the iconic sports cars in this series are: auto union type C (1936-1937); maserati 250F(1957); ford GT40 (1969), bugatti 57 SC (1934-1940); and porsche 956 (1982). the images are initially formed by a sketch, where oefner decides the placement of each of the parts. then, from the body shell to the minuscule screws, the artist disassembles the more than one thousand components in the model, placing each piece individually with the aid of fine needles and pieces of string. after meticulously working out the angle of each shot, oefner takes thousands of photographs of the individual car parts. finally, these images are blended together in post-production to create one single photo. ‘what you see in these images, is a moment that never existed in real life,’ says oefner. ‘what looks like a car falling apart is in fact a moment in time that has been created artificially by blending over 2,000 individual images together. there is a unique pleasure about artificially building a moment… freezing a moment in time is stupefying.’ ‘these are possibly the ‘slowest high-speed’ images ever captured,’ he continues. ‘it took almost two months to create an image that looks as if it was captured in a fraction of a second. the whole disassembly in itself took more than a day for each car due to the complexity of the models. but that’s a bit of a boy thing. there’s an enjoyment in the analysis, discovering something by taking it apart, like peeling an onion. however, the hardest part was actually setting up the camera, lens and light, because the biggest frustration is when you can’t get any beautiful image out of it!’ ‘disintegrating II’ is currently presented at M. A. D.gallery, dubai. 2016-04-26 11:30 Nina Azzarello

48 Minneapolis Institute of Art Names Ghenete Zelleke Head of Decorative Arts and Sculpture Department Ghenete Zelleke. COURTESY THE NEW SCHOOL The Minneapolis Institute of Art has announced the appointment of Ghenete Zelleke as the new James Ford Bell curator of decorative arts and sculpture and head of the department of decorative arts, textiles, and sculpture, effective this August. Zelleke will be replacing Eike Schmidt, who left MIA to direct the Uffizi Gallery last October. In her new role, she will head the scholarship, curatorial organization, and preservation of over 18,000 works from all over Europe and America, dating from the Middle Ages to the present day. Zelleke previously served at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she worked as Samuel and M. Patricia Grober curator of European decorative arts since 1998. During her time there, she curated a variety of exhibitions including “Charles Rennie Mackintosh,” “Eighteenth-Century French Vincennes-Sèvres Porcelain,” “Spiritual Expressions: Art for Private Contemplation and Public Celebration,” and “Arts and Crafts in Vienna: Furniture Designed by Josef Hoffmann.”Zelleke earned a master’s degree in History of European Decorative Arts offered jointly by Cooper Hewitt and the Parsons School of Design, and received a bachelor’s degree in art history from Cambridge. In a statement, Matthew Welch, MIA’s deputy director and chief curator, said, “Ghenete is widely admired for her fine ‘eye’ and demanding standards for high artistic excellence. She added many stellar examples of porcelain, furniture, silver and glass to the collection during her time at the AIC. We anticipate similarly news-worthy acquisitions in Minneapolis.” 2016-04-26 11:25 Hannah Ghorashi

49 Italy Elects Curator for Venice Biennale 2016 Curator Cecilia Alemani is making the ultimate homecoming next year. She will curate the Italian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, which runs from May 13-November 26, 2017. She is the first woman since 2009 to curate the Italian Pavilion, ArtNews , which broke the story in English, notes from Artribune 's original reporting. Alemani, who currently serves as the chief curator of New York City's High Line Art public art initiative, has previously had a hand in curating Frieze Projects, served as curatorial director for temporary nonprofit space X Initiative, and organized No Soul for Sale—A Festival of Independents at the Tate Modern in London. Alemani's husband, Massimiliano Gioni, the current artistic director at the New Museum, was the Venice Biennale's artistic director for its 55th edition in 2013—a position that Christine Marcel will fill for the upcoming iteration. Who Alemani will bring to the table is still anybody's guess. In her time as curator for the High Line, Alemani has worked with a number of notable artists, including Olafur Eliasson , who in 2015 staged a Lego installation for visitors to build the ideal city; and Elmgreen & Dragaset , who installed an unusable bronze telescope that perplexed visitors. When asked about her success abroad during a 2015 interview with Phaidon , Alemani was resigned, but optimistic, saying that the "contemporary art landscape in Italy isn't very welcoming for a new generation of curators… Maybe in 10 years it will get better! " Follow artnet News on Facebook. 2016-04-26 11:10 Rain Embuscado

50 iratzoki lizaso uses wrought iron to create the kea collection for alki iratzoki lizaso uses wrought iron to create the kea collection for alki iratzoki & lizaso uses wrought iron to create the kea collection for alki (above) the collection combines alki’s wood tradition with wrought iron all images courtesy of iratzoki & lizaso designed by iratzoki & lizaso design studio for alki, the ‘kea collection’ epitomises time-honored traditions and values of unity between the know- how of yesteryear and today by offering convivial items that subtly combine wood and wrought iron. although the main role in this new collection is played by wood, the brand’s preferred material, it now shares centre stage alongside wrought iron. faithful to this approach of reinterpreting what already is, iratzoki & lizaso have drawn inspiration not only from alki’s past but also from the history of industry in the basque country. ‘kea’ is a collection that has developed from the tale of two realities. on the one hand, the brand’s own expertise, which already combines wood and wrought iron in its products. on the other, the desire to work with an ironwork smithy located in navarre, spain, that carries on this tradition of working with iron and steel. another ingredient was the necessity of putting forward a design that, without any dramatic departure, was in line with what preceded it. the ‘kea table’ is composed of solid oak and wrought iron referencing these encounters with the navarre blacksmiths, the designers came up with this family comprising a table, shelves, coat stand and a bench, put together in an understated and practical style in oak and wrought iron. the convivial items that make up the ‘kea collection’ emerged from traditional values of unity between the know-hows. wrought iron, an organic and structuring link, is housed within the wood’s concave profile Rred-hot pieces of flame-heated metal are hand-forged on the anvil lodging the wrought iron piece in the kea bench designboom has received this project from our ‘DIY submissions‘ feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. see more project submissions from our readers here. 2016-04-26 11:00 www.designboom

51 vo trong nghia proposes green city hall as vertical extension of park landscape vo trong nghia proposes green city hall as vertical extension of park landscape all images courtesy of vo trong nghia architects the team at vo trong nghia architects have proposed their tower design for a green city hall located in bac ninh city, vietnam. the province in which the project would be sited is traditionally an agricultural area and is undergoing a growth in industrial factories and businesses. with this, the government is aiming to develop the city to be energy efficient and sustainable. the scheme is comprised of two buildings that lean towards each other the city hall proposal is perceived as a new symbol of the city and a catalyst to unite greenery and culture together. located at the center of the urban area, the scheme will sit adjacent to a park with flat terrain and the architecture will continue this park context by growing into a vertical tower filled with greenery. the proposal is located in the bac ninh province – a traditional agricultural area – that is currently developing to an industrial zone vo trong nghia’s scheme is comprised of two buildings that lean towards each other, ‘they represent mutual respect between the government and citizen’ comments the architects. the first tower accommodates government office whereas the second tower houses the citizen center and the office for the government party. they are linked by the towers’ cultural base, which facilities the cultural hall. additionally, an observation deck tops the highest floor for visitors to enjoy the city at an elevated level. the new city hall project proposal will serve as a new symbol of the city the first tower accommodates government office whereas the second tower houses the citizen center the towers are linked by the base, which accommodates facilities such as the cultural hall 2016-04-26 10:30 Natasha Kwok

52 Jessi Reaves Bridget Donahue / New York Anyone Knows How It Happened (Headboard for One) (2016), is the most formally straightforward work in Jessi Reaves’s solo exhibition at Bridget Donahue : two shelves flank a large sheet of plywood with a piece of raw foam stapled bottom-center. Bridget Donahue In spite of the candor of the presentation and plainspoken materials, Anyone Knows… absorbs a full abécédaire of art, design, and other vocabularies. The shelves are surreal, biomorphic protuberances; the headboard distorts International Style’s industrial planarity; the staples inscribe medieval crenellations; and a crafty faux-marble swirl decorates the foam. Or it’s trussed dolphin fins, John Chamberlain’s foam contortions, oyster lips, and a bad reaction to an oil spill. The title’s bare-all evocation (and possibly exaltation) embodies the spirit of Reaves’s furniture-sculptures. With basic, short-shelf-life materials, she imbues her Frankenstein-forms with a life-span, and like the monster, they reveal the inscrutable desires— exotic, romantic, abject and ecstatic—behind the dual acts of classification and use. The remainder of the exhibition is a showroom display of shelves, chairs, couches, cocktail tables, a lamp and an armoire. Viewers are invited to sit on a few of the pieces, which affects the try-it-out comforts of furniture retail, but the experience of any individual work playfully warps the scenario. From its exterior, the use of Night Cabinet (Little Miss Attitude) (2016), is not immediately apparent. But, if one unzips the semitransparent silk bodysock, keys and other valuables can be safely stored on the shelves that comprise its spikey internal skeleton. Night Cabinet undresses intention, its purpose performing a burlesque between object and observer. Twice Is Not Enough (Red to Green Chair) (2016), is upholstered in iridescent silk, which fluctuates along a chemical-bath gradient of red, green and orange. A square edge suggests it was cut from a loveseat, and its overstuffed plush renders its ad-hoc and unnaturally tumescent appearance pregnant with further upcycling reinterpretations. It is tempting to relegate Reaves’s furniture-sculptures to art’s systems of critique and value, but their generosity, as well as their ironies, traffic just as potently (and perversely) in other function-oriented contexts. Within Reave’s punk theatricality, there is no passive service; her furniture-sculptures free the desire to define, and let it run its course. by Sam Korman 2016-04-26 10:23 www.flashartonline

53 Cannes Film Festival’s Full Jury Is Announced PARIS — The full jury for the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival has been announced. Among those serving under the jury president George Miller, the Australian director of the “Mad Max” franchise, will be the French director Arnaud Desplechin, the actress Kirsten Dunst, the Italian actress and director Valeria Golino, and the Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, officials announced on Monday. The jury will be rounded out by the Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes, whose “Son of Saul” won the Grand Prize at Cannes last year and went on to win an Oscar; the French actress Vanessa Paradis; the Iranian producer Katayoon Shahabi; and the Canadian actor Donald Sutherland. The festival opens on May 11 with a screening of Woody Allen’s new film, “Café Society,” and runs through May 22 in the southern French resort city. In competition for the Palme d’Or this year are films by Pedro Almodóvar, Olivier Assayas, the Dardenne brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Cristian Mungiu, Jeff Nichols and Sean Penn. Jodie Foster’s “Money Monster” and Steven Spielberg’s “The BFG” will be shown out of competition. After the recent terrorist attacks in France, organizers say they have ramped up security to the highest level in the festival’s history. 2016-04-26 10:06 By

54 Celebrity Cameos Revealed for ‘Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie’ More Articles By Models including Kate Moss , Alexa Chung , Jourdan Dunn , Lara Stone, Alice Dellal, Jade Parfitt, Lily Cole, Daisy Lowe, Abbey Clancy, and Poppy Delevingne are to appear in the film alongside designers Jean Paul Gaultier, Stella McCartney, Pam Hogg, Ozwald Boateng, Giles Deacon and Anya Hindmarch. RELATED STORY: Dressing ‘ Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie ’ >> The film will also feature appearances from Joan Collins, Gwendoline Christie, Jerry Hall, Tinie Tempah , Suki Waterhouse, Chris Colfer, Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage, Nick Grimshaw and Perez Hilton. RELATED STORY: First Look: ‘Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie’ Fashion >> In addition, the following cast members from the original British sitcom will return, including Kathy Burke as Magda, Helen Lederer as Catriona, Harriet Thorpe as Fleur, Celia Imrie as Claudia Bing, and Mo Gaffney as Bo. Fox Searchlight Pictures released a teaser trailer for the film in February, and the full trailer is due to be released this Wednesday. RELATED STORY: ‘Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie’ Trailer Drops >> 2016-04-26 10:03 Lorelei Marfil

55 Westminster Rejects 'Homeless Jesus' Statue Homelessness may be a problem in London, but the issue is not one that UK officials are ready to confront outside their doorstep. A proposed installation of Homeless Jesus , a cast bronze statue that depicts a destitute figure huddled under a blanket on a park bench, has been scuttled by the Westminster council, reports the Guardian. "Some iconography is very grand and glorious. This is earthy and speaks of the fragility of the human condition," said Martyn Atkins of Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, which hoped to display the statue outside the tourist attraction, to the Guardian. "We thought it was evocative, classy and highly appropriate, especially in Westminster within spitting distance of parliament. " The application to install the artwork, by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz , was rejected by the local council because it "would fail to maintain or improve (preserve or enhance) the character or appearance of the Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square conservation area. " This is not the first time the statue has divided popular opinion, however. When it was put on display in Davidson, North Carolina, several local homeowners called the police to complain about a homeless person sleeping on the bench. Related: See the Most Controversial Depictions of Jesus in Art On the other hand, Pope Francis is a self-professed fan, calling the statue a "beautiful and excellent representation of Jesus. " To date, around 100 copies of Homeless Jesus can be found around the world, from Austin to Madrid to India. The official statement from Westminster officials also noted that the area was a "monument saturation zone" and did not meet urban planning guidelines. A city council spokesperson noted that "there is no objection whatsoever to the sculpture being located within the Methodist Central Hall itself," but that given the large number of monuments and memorials in Parliament Square, "an exception is not warranted" to the current ban on additional public statues in the area. "When I heard that there's too many monuments in the area, I just had to laugh because the size of this piece is literally a bronze park bench" that would have been installed against church wall, Schmalz told artnet News in a phone conversation. "The reality of the situation is that they're very uncomfortable with the message… that all human life is a sacred," said Schmalz, arguing that this is particularly unfortunate given the statue's proposed location between two churches. "People are supposed to acknowledge the fact that it might make one feel uncomfortable, but it's a good thing to feel. " The work is inspired by Matthew: 25, 31–46, in which Jesus likens himself to the hungry, the poor, and the sick, saying to his disciples that "as you did it to one of the least of my brothers, you did it to me. " "I imagine many people will find the council suggestion that this particular piece of public art would somehow lower the tone of the neighborhood insulting and ironic," said Atkins. Westminster has the country's largest population of homeless people, with a 2014 study finding more than five times as many people sleeping outdoors than anywhere else in England. A Change.org petition to overturn the council's decision, which has over 1,000 signatures, notes that "homelessness is an increasingly a global issue, and we are witnessing what many say is the largest ever migration of people in Europe and North Africa. London is a leading global city and the positive symbolic effect of placing ‘The Homeless Jesus' here in Westminster would be enormous. " Follow artnet News on Facebook. 2016-04-26 09:53 Sarah Cascone

56 Men’s Wear Grabs Spotlight in Hyères More Articles By The exuberant and playful men’s designs by 28- year-old Japanese designer Wataru Tominoga scored him the Première Vision Grand Prize, while Finnish duo Hanne Jurmu and Anton Vartiainen, who won the Chloé prize as well as a special mention from the jury, paraded a men’s wear collection made primarily of discarded materials including melon skin and flowers. Even the head of the fashion jury, Paco Rabanne ’s creative director for women’s wear Julien Dossena, is mulling a move into men’s wear soon. “It was one of the most beautiful editions. After the 30 th edition that was magic and royal with Chanel, this one was full of energy,” asserted festival founder Jean-Pierre Blanc. “Everyone needs to find their own path. The beauty of the fashion sector is that there are plenty of options.” Consider 34-year-old Finnish finalist, Rolf Ekroth, who started his career as a social worker before becoming a professional poker player before enrolling in Helsinki’s Aalto University and making his way to the festival with a men’s wear collection inspired by golf. Blanc said he has never seen so many recruiting executives at the festival. Chantal Gaemperle, LVMH’s group executive vice president for human resources and synergies director; Guillaume de Piédoüe, co-founder of Eyes on Talents; and Mathias Ohrel, founder of m-O, a recruitment firm in the luxury sector were among them. Indeed, the festival underlined that the fashion sector offers multiple career paths, as shown by the paths of former winners and opportunities opened by the digital revolution. Luxury firms flexed their sponsorship muscles at the festival. New patrons including celebrity hair stylist John Nollet and the online photo lab Memorieslab joined the bandwagon of patrons. The festival’s major sponsors already include Chanel, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Première Vision, Chloé, Galeries Lafayette, Mercedes-Benz, Swarovski and Petit Bateau, the latter having just renewed its commitment to the festival for three years. Blanc said he plans to introduce an accessories prize next year and a new photography prize dedicated to still life, which would be “a bridge between art and fashion photography.” Another axis of development is The Formers showroom, a platform for past winners, to better accompany them in their careers. “Once they have mined all the opportunities that the festival offers them, other prizes such as the ANDAM award and LVMH prize take over,” Blanc said. “Hyères is more beforehand,” echoed Pierre-Yves Roussel, chief executive officer of LVMH’s fashion division, who’s on jury duty for the LVMH prize and ANDAM award. “Designers here can typically apply for the LVMH prize in two or three years from now.” “It’s a nice selection,” the executive said of the 10 finalists for the Hyères competition this year. “The level of execution impressed me. It’s interesting to see the paths of the former winners: they really shows that it’s a process to conceive your project, to mature it creatively and have the necessary funds to further develop it.” “Young creation has always been part of vocabulary and it’s more and more. We continue to challenge ourselves,” said Tomoko Ogura, Barneys New York senior fashion director, also a jury member. Barneys has been stocking Dossena’s creations for Paco Rabanne since his second collection at the house. “The feedback is very positive. The reason we stock him is because he had a distinct point of view.” Despite its laid-back appearance — with the fashion crowd lounging on the lawns in their statement sunglasses at the landmark Villa Noailles — the festival has evolved into a think tank where the future of fashion is discussed at round tables organized by the French fashion’s governing body. At one on digital, there were contributions from students of the new IFM Start program, which is done in collaboration with 42, a French computer programming school and incubator created and funded by entrepreneur Xavier Niel. For example, Pia Hazoume, a student from IFM, teamed up with a data scientist from 42 on algorithms to predict what consumers will buy. “Big data is replacing trends,” said Hazoume. “The model used to be Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent, an executive and a creative. With the digital revolution we’ll see more and more fashion companies being the brainchild of a fashion profile and a programmer,” predicted Laurent Raoul, a professor at the French Fashion Institute (IFM). “If you want to attract the best talents, putting sustainability at the core of your company is a key factor,” said Marie-Claire Daveu, Kering chief sustainability officer at a round table on sustainability, which also included Carlo Capasa, the president of Italian Chamber of Fashion. During a master class, Dossena said he’d like to introduce men’s wear pieces to Paco Rabanne’s collections and also to revive his Atto label that he had put on hold when he got the opportunity at Paco Rabanne. “Now that the foundation for Paco Rabanne is laid, it’s something I would like to do,” he said of Atto, launched in 2013. He told WWD that he’s aiming at early 2017 for that. In just two seasons, his brand was stocked in around 100 doors including Dover Street Market, Saks Fifth Avenue and Printemps. “I could finance the first season and then it self-financed itself,” he said. That’s something Amanda Svart, a 28-year old Swedish graduate student at the Royal College of Art in London, would like to achieve, having won the audience award with her draped silhouettes. “When I graduate, I want to push this collection to another level but it’s a lot of struggle in London. Otherwise, I’ll apply for a job for a house,” she said. It’s not a bed of roses for young designers, stressed designer Pierre Hardy, who heads up Hermès’ shoes and was a jury member. “Many students have to deal with indigence. Without the grants, quality work is out of reach for them,” he said. “I had already launched my brand when I competed for the ANDAM. It was the first time they launched the accessories prize, and it really helped me,” recalled Charlotte Chesnais, 2015 winner of the ANDAM Accessories prize and a Hyères 2016 jury member. The 30-year-old Parisian designer who worked with Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga, where she met Dossena and Hardy, presented her new collection in March at Colette. She sells her creations to around 50 doors. 2016-04-26 09:32 Laure Guilbault

57 ‘You Make Publics Around The Ideas’: Martine Syms on Publishing, Self-Help, Zine Culture, and More Martine Syms presenting an Artbound episode titled The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto, after her work of the same name. VIA YOUTUBE Martine Syms is the rare artist who thinks of holding more than one job as an aspiration rather than simply a necessity. The self-proclaimed conceptual entrepreneur is just as recognized these days for her achievements in publishing as she is for creating work that deals with communication in conjunction with representations of blackness throughout film and art history. In 2007, Syms tested the entrepreneurial waters by opening Golden Age, a curated, artist-run boutique, bookstore, and event space in Chicago with the artist Marco Braunschweiler while working as a graphic designer by day. When the space closed in 2011, the Los Angeles native returned to her home city to found Dominica Publishing, an artist press that has published work by Laurie Anderson, Diamond Stingily, Hannah Black, and Syms herself. Syms’s artistic output consistently reveals a fascination with text and language. In 2013, she published “The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto” through Rhizome. The work, as per its own preamble, “[speculates and asserts] a different set of values with which to re-imagine the future” in terms of black diasporic artistic production. The declaration was an immediate critical success, and Syms has continued a prolific literary career, writing essays, autobiographical fiction, and the pilot episode of a sitcom titled She Mad , the latter of which appeared in the 2015 New Museum Triennial. Recently, Syms has had solo shows at Bridget Donahue Gallery in New York, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, and Karma International in Los Angeles. I recently spoke to Syms over the phone to hear about her publishing enterprises. An edited and condensed version of our conversation follows below. ARTnews: What were your different goals for Golden Age and Dominica Publishing? Martine Syms: [Marco Braunschweiler and I] started Golden Age right before we graduated from college. I moved to Chicago after I had lived in Los Angeles and worked for Ooga Booga, which was very influential for me as far as introducing me to new ways of recording autonomous culture. It was an outlet for artists who weren’t necessarily making work for gallery projects, and I knew that I wanted to do something similar in Chicago. At the time, there weren’t many opportunities there for alternative spaces to show younger artists. We were thinking of providing a kind of outlet for our community from the very beginning. At the same time, we were also thinking about simultaneously becoming global—we were going to do this exchange involving people from Chicago and other cities around the world. After I did Golden Age—that was from 2007 to 2012, basically—I moved back to L. A. My favorite part of Golden Age was commissioning new projects and publications and working with new artists, and that feeling inspired Dominica. I also wanted to get rid of everything that comes with having a base: I didn’t want to have hours, I didn’t want to have to be available, any of that. [laughs] Dominica was kind of going to be my baby. I put my energy into working with people I was excited about, or if someone told me an idea and I really liked it, I could help them execute it. You once said, “Making it in L. A. is what people do here.” Is that part of the reason you moved back to California? No, not really. I’m from L. A., so that was the biggest reason. The cover of Diamond Stingily’s Love Diamond. COURTESY DOMINICA PUBLISHING I also read that you once tried to become a full-time artist, but you only lasted a month. Do you view publishing as a way to diversify your output? Yeah, definitely. I think that’s basically what I was talking about—there are a lot of these hierarchies where money shoots out from. The ideal situation would be all of your money coming in from what everyone thinks—selling your art. But I think, for me, that’s not very helpful. When I was working full-time, I’d go on studio visits with people and they’d be like, “I’m feeling the pressure about this or that meeting [with a dealer].” Then I quit my job, and went to this residency just to make art full-time. Pretty quickly, I was like, “That was a really stupid idea,” because it doesn’t guarantee anything. I definitely needed one other avenue—that’s the word I’m looking for. I was just reading one of those click-bait articles about how one should ideally have several income streams. [laughs] Yeah, that makes sense. All your eggs shouldn’t be in one basket. And I definitely don’t think publishing is a money-maker. I was actually going to ask you if publishing is a profitable venture. But you wouldn’t recommend it? No, no. [laughs] I wouldn’t encourage anyone to start their own publishing company. Do you mostly sell books at your gallery shows? I noticed you were selling some at your recent show at Bridget Donahue. No, I sell them in stores, too—at Printed Matter in New York, and at Ooga Booga and L. A. MOCA here, and also internationally, at ICU London. I also sell online. I don’t have much of a website, but you can order them on there, too. How do you end up publishing people? Do you just meet people organically or do you pursue certain people you’re really interested in? I pursue people. That’s my primary recruitment technique. [laughs] Sometimes I hear about projects, though. I published [a text] called Love Diamond , which was authored by an artist named Diamond Stingily, and that sort of came about because she was posting these excerpts from her diary on Facebook. They made me laugh so hard and I was always looking forward to seeing them, so I was like, “Where are these coming from? Can you send me scans if you have them, so I can see if there’s more material?” She sent me the whole thing, I scanned it, and we ended up publishing it—albeit in a different format, because she ended up wanting to lay [her diary] out differently. The most recent publication I put out was this collection of essays by Hannah Black called Dark Pool Party. I just really loved her writing—she was writing all the stuff that I wasn’t seeing a lot, and I really loved her voice. Then I saw her read at a panel we were on together last year for Rhizome’s Seven on Seven. Just seeing her read really changed a lot for me, so I sent her an email and asked her if she wanted to do a book of this essay through my publishing imprint. So, most of the time I go and specifically ask people. I haven’t done anything that has been proposed to me. That’s not to say that I wouldn’t, but there are already so many things that I want to put out. The cover of Hannah Black’s Dark Pool Party. COURTESY DOMINICA PUBLISHING Do you see commonalities between the types of texts that you do publish? Not really. I think everyone starts their own imprint with the same idea. Like, “I’m going to have this really straight format and everything’s going to be the same size,” and you have this vision of a shelf of perfectly designed books. But, for me, it’s really about working with the person. And because of that, I work very closely with them in terms of creating the book designs and the experience of kind of holding and reading the book. Every book comes out very differently. But, as far as common threads go, I suppose there’s an element of pop [culture] in all of them, which is reflective of my own interests. Changing the subject a little, I assume you were a big reader as a child. Yes. [laughs] What kinds of books or texts do you remember being interested in when you were younger? [laughs] I was really into the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. And then I was also really into the Goosebumps series, and horror stories…. I was reading all kinds of things. This one’s a little bit obvious, but there was also The Giver! [laughs] That was my favorite book. I was so into that one. But I just read everything, really. My mom also had a lot of handy self-help books, and books like The Artist’s Way , and I read all of those too. Did you ever read How To Win Friends and Influence People? Yeah! [laughs] That’s a classic. Do you feel like you learned anything from the self-help books? Yeah, I think so. Definitely. I think I externalize a lot, which is often mentioned in the basic tenets of self-help. What are some of your all-time favorite books? Off the top of my head: Remainder by Tom McCarthy. I was really into that book, and Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy. Also, The Gray Album by Kevin Young—that’s a big one. It’s influenced a lot of my work. Those are the three that come to mind immediately, but I’m always kind of reading. I haven’t been reading actual books lately, unfortunately. There are too many good long reads on the Internet to get through. I sort of stopped reading on the Internet a year or two ago because I felt like so many times I’d be reading something and think, “Why did I just read that?” It’s so bad. I made a New Year’s resolution—I think in 2014—that I wouldn’t read anything online. I don’t totally follow it, and I still read things online sometimes. But in general, I haven’t felt like I’ve missed any news or information or anything. In an interview , you once said, “I think my main interests and ideas have always come from independent music, black-owned businesses, and the idea of self-determination through having a sustainable institution, through institutionalizing yourself.” I also saw that you also posted an altered photo of the Johnson Publishing Company Building from 1971 , when it was the first and only black-owned building on Michigan Avenue, on your website. I was wondering, when did you first think you could actually be an entrepreneur? And when did you know this was the path you wanted to take? I mean, the idea of starting your own company is a pretty scary one. I was pretty young, I think. I started a zine called Anger Thermometer when I was around 14 years old. [laughs] I don’t really remember it, and I don’t really remember what it was for. I can remember the images, though. The name came from those graphics you’d hang in your office so you could mark in how angry you were. Johnson Publishing Company Building, 1971. An altered archival photograph of the JPC headquarters. COURTESY MARTINE SYMS Like a pain thermometer? Yeah, exactly! So that was the name of my zine that I started. When I was in middle school I went to this art class that was taught by this artist I still know named Robby Herbst here in L. A. It was called “Youth Cult/Sub-Cult” and he showed us The Decline of Western Civilization , that documentary [about the late 1970s Los Angeles punk scene—ed.], and I was already into that kind of music, so I was like, “I’m going to start a zine.”I started making the zine and I’d give it away at shows and to trade people. At the time, zine culture was still predominantly male. People would put them in record stores, and you could go on zine mailing lists, but I started really small. Since I had this zine, it was a way for me to be able to talk to people I wanted to talk to. I would go to a show and I would be left to talk to these bands. I’d be like, “Check out my zine!” I remember I once went to go see the Gossip, and I gave Beth Ditto [the band’s singer—ed.] my zine and she was really encouraging about it. Then people started sending me their stuff because I was already in communication with a bunch of people and they had me on zine listings. I put my zine online, too. I always thought of zine-making as a way of building relationships with people, and that’s what I continue to do. When we did Golden Age, Marco was trying to do some skateboarding as well, and we both thought of it as a way to talk to people that we wanted to be around. That strikes me as being really different from when people are trying to write the next Great American Novel, for example. That seems to be a really isolating activity, comparatively. The cliché is that they have to lock themselves in their attics all day, alone, to get any work done. I think of publishing as making things public. As we do that we can make ideas public, and in doing that, you make publics around the ideas. Each form has its own constituency, in a way. If I make an exhibition, the people who would go to see it are the kind of people who would read a zine or a book or a website. The audience for these things is not going to change. You build your audience based on how you’re communicating with them, so, for me, publishing has absolutely always been a social thing. It was a way that I got to talk to people. You’ve talked about the importance of artists being in charge of their own careers, but I wonder if you think of that as also being a double-edged sword? Yeah, I guess there are two sides to that. I don’t think you have to professionalize your art as an artist. But I think once you start to engage with galleries, which are commercial entities, then it’s a little naïve to not be aware of these things, and it’s really easy to go broke really quickly. It depends on the situation, obviously, but if someone is giving me a contract (which museums often do) and I don’t have any idea what it says and I choose to ignore it, I kind of do so at my own risk. Some people can really afford to take that risk and others can’t. It’s a real privilege not to be aware of that stuff and I don’t have that privilege so I’m very aware of it. If I get fucked over, I can’t make any more work. Do they really make you sign the contract? Or can you just keep pretending to forget to sign it and they won’t notice? [laughs] No, they’re usually like, “Where’s our contract?” But, you know, I think professionalism, or even the term “professional,” really varies based on who is speaking, you know? You can’t really separate that term from its structures. So I think what’s going to be professional or unprofessional for one person is not going to be the same for another person. I think it’s sort of silly to pretend there’s one type of professionalizing. It really depends on who the person is and who the artist is. There are some things that some people can do that other people can’t do. Martine Syms performing Notes on Gesture, 2015. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND BRIDGET DONAHUE Would you compare Dominica to what Paul Chan is doing with Badlands? Or to what Wade Guyton and Urs Fischer are doing with Leopard Press and Kiito-San? You could even compare it to DIS, I think—they don’t have an imprint, but they’re certainly publishing things. Yeah, definitely. There’s a long history of artists publishing, from Fluxus to the Situationists. You can even go back further to the Shakespeare & Co., New Directions kind of thing. There’s definitely a tradition of publishing, and I’m a fan of the presses that you’ve mentioned. When I started working at Ooga Booga, I was coming from more of a music-zine publishing background, and Wendy [Yao, the owner] had a similar background, so it was something we shared. But that was also my first real introduction to all of these artist presses and this other history that paralleled. Now I think I sit somewhere in between the two. Have you thought about expanding Dominica into film or magazine publishing? I was wondering because you wrote “ The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto ” and then you started adapting it to different forms. Yeah, I have a lot of grand ideas. [laughs] But I think we’re just going to take it one step at a time. I’m not even sure about the role of the magazine today. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot. I think that would be fun, but we’ll see what happens. This is more of a conceptual question, but I was watching your Notes on Gesture video, and it occurred to me that you can see some of the same repetitions in publishing as you do in social gestures. Do you agree? Yeah, I draw parallels between video and publishing in terms of the way editing is key for both and also because of their sequential similarities—the way you move through a narrative regardless of whether it’s linear or non-linear. You really are being carried through the material, and the way that that happens, and what you take from that, and the form it’s presented in all have added to the meaning of the piece. I also think of the relationship between text and image, and how images can be read, maybe, or function as an image. I think maybe that’s a connection between some of the artists that I work with, because at Dominica there’s a fluidity between the two. Do you see the Internet as competition at all? It’s currently the cheapest and easiest way to publish something. No, I definitely don’t think of it as competition. I think the two are related, in terms of circulating material. I definitely think you can’t take something designed for print and just put it online, because there are inherent differences. The Internet, for example, is not financed. And on the Internet, a page should change, and you kind of have room for feedback and reaction in a way that you don’t in print. I think all of this should be taken into account when you’re putting something online, but no, I don’t see them as opposed. It’s the same regarding film versus video —to me, it’s all just kind of one thing. I’m not so caught up in the differences. It’s the same thing if you’re curious about film versus video…. To me, it’s all just kind of one thing. I’m not so caught up in the differences. You’ve talked about productive failure before, and I was wondering if this applies to your ventures in publishing at all? Have you made any big mistakes that you’ve found productive later on? [laughs] I mean, I feel like starting Golden Age as a 19-year-old should be considered a failure. [laughs] I kind of see it that way. There was a period of time when my opinion on that was reversed. But now I think that was the biggest one. Other than that, I don’t know! [laughs] The cover of Martine Syms’s Fools , a short story about a young white man’s search for decolonial love. COURTESY DOMINICA PUBLISHING [laughs] We’re making mistakes every day! Yeah! We’re always making so many mistakes. My favorite commercial is this one for Nike with Michael Jordan talking about his failures, and he’s like [adopts a pseudo-male voice], “The 25th time I was relied on to take the winning shot, I missed. Four times, I missed a pass during a championship game.” And he’s recounting all these things he’s failed at, but then he goes through these doors, and he’s like, “And all those failures are why I succeed.” And I felt like, “Sure you did.” [laughs] But I kind of feel like that. I make mistakes on a daily basis. It’s fine. Do you have any upcoming projects, Dominica-wise? Yeah. Well, the next book which should be out pretty soon—we’re going to do a launch in New York in June. It’s by an artist called Sara Knox Hunter, and it’s called There is Nothing to Divide Us If We Do Not Exist. It’s a book of what you’d call sci-fi poems. Sarah was writing it as she was reading and watching a lot of science-fiction films and literature, and she was interested in this whole community of commenting and reviewing. The book is in two parts. One part [consists of] her reviews, and some of them are fictional reviews of other fiction. The other part uses sci-fi to think about otherness. She was adopted, and some of her biological family has reached out to her in recent years and it’s kind of tracing that idea of who exactly a person is. She tells it like a biographical story. It’s a cool text—I’ve never seen anything quite like it. Can you tell me what you’re planning for Manifesta this year? Yeah, actually the Johnson Publishing Company—that photo that you mentioned—is going to be featured. The show is about ways of working, and I liken the job of a publishing company to the Ramones. They’ve talked about how they initially wanted to do a kind of ’50s-pop thing, but it came out wrong, and in my mind, I’m trying to do the same with the Johnson Publishing Company. I’m trying to do the same [operation], but it hasn’t quite worked. 2016-04-26 09:30 Hannah Ghorashi

58 Yayoi Kusama Brings Works to Glass House Yayoi Kusama is taking three of her world- renowned works to New Canaan, Connecticut to help the Glass House celebrate two big moments in its history: its tenth anniversary since it opened to the public and what would have been architect Philip Johnson's 110th birthday. According to Christa Carr, director of communications for the Glass House, Kusama has been working on her installation pieces from her studio in Japan. Narcissus Garden and Pumpkin will be the first to arrive in May, followed by a special iteration of Infinity Room that runs through September. "It's truly an honor that she agreed when we proposed an exhibition," Glass House curator Irene Shum told artnet News in a phone interview. She added: "It started with the Narcissus Garden and it grew from there… The timing was perfect. " The first version of Narcissus Garden, which featured 1,500 plastic silver balls, appeared in an unofficial installation at the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1966, with help from artist Lucio Fontana. (Kusama later represented Japan at the 45th Biennale, in 1993). For the Glass House, the Japanese artist is rendering a new fleet of steel spheres to float along the estate's Lower Meadow. According to a statement from the museum, visitors can expect "mirrored surfaces [to] reflect the surrounding Pond Pavilion, wooded landscape, and sky. " A version of her formidable steel Pumpkin will also be on view on a nearby hill. As the world's most popular artist as well as the most expensive living female artist , Kusama's success at the Glass House is almost certain. She was recently named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. On the gallery front, Kusama's year with David Zwirner has her extending her reach to new markets with an impressive (if not overwhelming) number of international shows. "It's her big project this year," says Shum, "and we're just really excited. " Yayoi Kusama 's Narcissus Garden and Pumpkin will be on view at the Glass House from May 1 through November 30, 2016. Kusama's special installation, Infinity Polka Dots on the Glass House, will be on view from September 1 through September 26, 2016. Follow artnet News on Facebook. 2016-04-26 09:28 Rain Embuscado

59 2016 American Package Design Awards Makers, sellers and marketers are challenged as never before to convey the message, promote the brand, close the deal. Think fragmented audiences, information overload, media clutter, global competition, economic dislocation, changing practices and preferences. Package design and related disciplines are increasingly the difference makers in advancing the brand and influencing the purchasing decision. The outstanding work showcased here – from 200 elite design firms, design departments and production companies – is testimony to this phenomenon. Our annual competition celebrates attractive graphics, of course, but more importantly the power of design to forge an emotional link with the buyer at the moment of truth. Beauty + Personal Care Health + Wellness Wine, Beer + Liquor Food + Beverages Electronics + Computers Music + Entertainment Home, Garden + Industrial Sports, Toys + Games Babies + Children Animals + Pets Fashion, Apparel + Accessories Luxury Packaging Sustainable Packaging Private Label Packaging P-O-P, Posters + Signs Hangtags, Labels + Shopping Bags Logos, Identity + Branding Students Click on the name of an individual firm to see their winning projects 2016-04-26 12:12 GDUSA Staff

60 Fire Destroys Delhi's Natural History Museum The irreplaceable collection of Delhi's National Museum of Natural History was largely destroyed by a massive fire last night, NDTV reports. Officials confirmed that the fire had broken out on the museum's sixth floor sometime between 1 and 2 a.m. on Tuesday, when the local fire department was alarmed. The blaze quickly spread throughout the building, and ravaged for almost eight hours before firefighters managed to extinguish the flames. The first and ground floor offices were saved, the Guardian reports. Safety equipment in the building failed to work, adding to the severity of the damage. “The water system in the building was not working, and we had to arrange for water to be brought from a nearby metro station," a spokesperson from Delhi's fire department told the Guardian. "That was the reason there was so much damage. If the water was working we could have saved a lot more of the building. " According to the paper, among the iconic and extremely rare items in the museum's collection lost to the fire was a bone from a sauropod dinosaur, estimated to be about 160 million years old. “This is an irreversible loss," Rahul Khot, the curator of the Bombay Natural History Society's collection, told the Guardian . “This is a big loss for society and the nation. Many people use museums for education. It can't be remade overnight. " Wall Street Journal India reports that the building which housed the museum in India's capital was rundown, and plans were made last year to relocate the institution. The Guardian points to a scathing report, published in 2012 by a government-appointed committee, raised serious concerns about the museum's maintenance. The environment ministry, which manages the museum and its regional branches, had been sharply criticized in the past for the “pathetic functioning" of the museum. “I have asked for an energy and fire audit of all establishments of the ministry across the country," said Prakash Javadekar, India's environment minister. “Plans will be made for how the museum is to be restored. First we have to assess the loss, then we can decide how to restore the museum. " The cause of the fire is currently being probed by the police. Follow artnet News on Facebook. 2016-04-26 09:08 Hili Perlson

61 GENETO presents everyday life as art in office design for aTOKYO GENETO presents everyday life as art in office design for aTOKYO all images courtesy of GENETO studio the new office of ‘aTOKYO co., ltd.’, production manager of international event art fair tokyo, has been completed by architecture studio GENETO. located on the fourth floor of a nondescript building at the intersection of ikura minato-ku, the interior is comprised of three boxes that give structure to the 100m2 space. considering the client, a concept was developed comparing the office to an event space where the everyday routines of work are put on display. the three boxes: a private workspace for the chief director, another for the president, and a meeting room for all, are where the idea comes to fruition. a range of frames — some opaque, others glass, and more containing actual images — are cut through the internal walls of each box. this creates an interesting spatial experience, that present an always-changing array of views that are the ‘art’ of quotidian existence. interior overview, employee workspaces are located in all areas besides the box insertions designboom has received this project from our DIY submissions feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. see more project submissions from our readers here. 2016-04-26 08:45 www.designboom

62 Can Sotheby's Kickstart Auction Season?— As the New York spring auction season looms, Sotheby's, which is in the midst of a major shakeup , is hoping to demonstrate its staying power. In recent years, the auction house has outpaced its main rival, Christie's, in the Impressionist and modern art category, but its upcoming sale May 9 bears a high estimate of just $236 million for 32 lots. If it achieved that high estimate, it would still rank in the lower half of the house's Impressionist and modern art sales over the last five years. (If it made only its low estimate, of $165 million, it would be in line with the worst sales during that period.) By comparison, last year's sale rang up at $368 million , led by a $66.3-million Vincent van Gogh painting. The November 2015 sale of similar material racked up $306.7 million. Here are the top five lots in the sale, which also includes market standbys like Alberto Giacometti , Claude Monet , and Pablo Picasso . 1. Andre Derain André Derain 's 1906 painting Les Voiles Rouge (shown above), estimated at up to $20 million, once resided at the Toledo Museum of Art and since then passed through New York gallery Knoedler & Co. , which sold the painting in 1951 to Texaco heir Sarah Campbell Blaffer, whose descendants are offering it for sale. If the painting reaches its high estimate, it will be in record territory. Derain's Arbres à Collioure (1905) fetched $24.2 million at Sotheby's London in 2010, according to the artnet Price Database. Painted in London, it represents the commercial boats that were known by the red sails referred to in the title, according to the sale catalogue. 2. Maurice de Vlaminck Tagged at up to $18 million, Maurice de Vlaminck 's brightly hued landscape Sous-Bois (1905) could approach the Fauvist's current high of $22.5 million, fetched by Paysage de Banlieue (1905) at Christie's New York in 2011, per artnet's Price Database. (The canvas is also on offer from Blaffer's heirs.) 3. Claude Monet Claude Monet 's Camille à L'Ombrelle Verte (1876) , showing his wife in the garden of the family home in Argenteuil, was once in the holdings of Third Reich Marshall Hermann Göring, and was later returned by the French government to the heirs of Alfred Lindon, from whom it had been seized in London. The seller paid $8.3 million for it at Sotheby's London in 2007, per artnet's Price Database. Now, it's estimated at $9 to $12 million. 4. Paul Signac Paul Signac 's Maison du Port, Saint-Tropez (1892), which the house estimates at up to $12 million, could set a new high for the French painter, whose record stands at $14 million. That price was achieved for Cassis. Cap Canaille (1889) at Christie's New York in 2007. The current painting, dominated by the yellow hue of the early morning sun on the port of Saint- Tropez, passed through the hands of famous Russian ballerina Olga Spessivtseva before being sold via Sotheby's to the family of John Langeloth Loeb, Jr., onetime US ambassador to Denmark, who are offering it for sale after holding onto it for some six decades. 5. Auguste Rodin Auguste Rodin 's marble sculpture Éternel printemps (1901-03) is estimated at $8 million to $12 million. Measuring just over two feet high, it probably won't scratch the artist's current auction high of $19 million, notched at Christie's New York in 2008 for a sculpture of Eve, per artnet's Price Database. Museums such as the Hermitage, in Saint Petersburg, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, have snapped up other examples from the same series, showing a pair of lovers in an embrace. Follow artnet News on Facebook. 2016-04-26 08:35 Brian Boucher

63 Predicting the Tony Nominations: The Plays On May 3, Patina Miller and Andrew Rannells will announce the Tony Award nominations, where a month-long campaign will then ensue, culminating in the CBS-televised awards presentation hosted by James Corden on June 12. What is shaping up to be a coronation for the much-praised “Hamilton,” is anything but in the category of non-musicals. Nine new dramas opened on Broadway this season and, in a departure from the past, six were written by American playwrights, another by a Frenchman (Florian Zeller’s “The Father”), and two by Brits (Mike Bartlett’s “King Charles III” and Helen Edmundson’s “Therese Raquin”). When the Tony nominators gather to make their choices, it’s a good bet that Americans will be well represented in the all-important Best Play category with Danai Gurira’s “Eclipsed” and Stephen Karam’s “The Humans” joining Mike Bartlett’s “King Charles III.” That means that the six remaining on the list will duke it out for the fourth and last slot. The smart money is on Richard Greenberg’s “Our Mother’s Brief Affair” to join the group, although it wouldn’t be a total surprise if Zeller’s “The Father” made the cut. Both are productions of the non-profit Manhattan Theatre Club. One shouldn’t cry for those who might be overlooked. Both David Mamet’s “China Doll,” starring Al Pacino, and David Javerbaum’s “Act of God,” recouped their investments earlier this year. The latter has announced a return engagement beginning on May 28 at the Booth Theatre with Sean Hayes taking on the role created by Jim Parsons. “Therese Raquin,” which featured Keira Knightly’s Broadway debut, was a part of the non-profit Roundabout Theatre season, and “Misery,” adapted by William Goldman from the Stephen King novel, probably made some of its money back though it never announced full recoupment. The thriller brought Bruce Willis to Broadway for the first time but apparently “Die Hard” fans could fuel the box-office only so far — and, besides, co-star Laurie Metcalf ran away with all the reviews. The big question here will be whether or not the nominators will look askance at the marquee names of the season, including Pacino, Knightly, Willis, and Parsons. While “King Charles III” won a number of awards in London, its reception in the former colonies was respectful, if a little less enthusiastic. It appears that the race for Broadway’s top honor will be between Gurira’s “Eclipsed” and Karam’s “The Humans,” which was recently a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Both plays earned across-the-board critical raves and feature top-notch ensemble work, the former headed by Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, and the latter including Jane Houdyshell and Reed Birney. “Eclipsed” is set during the Liberian Civil War and unflinchingly examines the plight of women and their thirst for survival, either as abused captives, conscripted soldiers, or activists fighting for social justice. “The Humans” is states-bound, a Pennsylvania family trying to cope with social upheaval, discordant relationships, and economic insecurity in an uneasy time. Karam, whose “Sons of the Prophet” was highly acclaimed, takes his place as one of America’s leading young playwrights with this wry and unsettling drama, currently at the Helen Hayes. Tony nominators should shower both it and “Eclipsed” with attention come next Tuesday. Also poised to get a record-breaking amount of nominations is the Public Theatre, which originated last year’s Best Musical Tony winner “Fun Home.” This year it boasts being the lab not only for “Hamilton” but also “Eclipsed.” Talk about being on a roll. 2016-04-26 08:00 Patrick Pacheco

64 Prince’s Minnesota Home To Become a Museum With millions of fans still reeling from the shocking news last Thursday that the legendary musician Prince had died , his brother-in-law, Maurice Phillips, has vowed to transform Prince's $6.6- million home in Minnesota into a museum. "We will turn Paisley Park into a museum in Prince's memory," Phillips, who is married to Prince's sister Tyka Nelson, told the Sun . "It would be for the fans. He was all about the fans —this would remember his music, which is his legacy. Prince was always private but would have wanted his music remembered," he added. Phillips also defended his brother-in-law, who is rumored to have been using the painkiller Percocet to deal with hip pain. "Folks talk mess about folks. We're too busy passing judgment on other folks than handling our own business," Phillips told the Sun. "Instead of building people up they are tearing them down —or trying to make a dollar out of them. At the end of the day it's between that man up there and the individual. " Prince's autopsy report is still not out—and won't be for at least another four weeks, according to CNN. The singer-songwriter died after collapsing in an elevator at Paisley Park last Thursday. Five days before his death, Prince's private jet had to make a sudden landing after what would turn out to be his last concert. The plane had to perform an emergency landing in Illinois at the Quad City International Airport due to an "unresponsive" male passenger aboard, according to a release from the Federal Aviation Administration, as reported by CNN. The singer was rushed to a hospital in Moline, but was later discharged and returned to Paisley Park. Prince was cremated on Friday, and a private memorial ceremony attended by his family and friends was held at Paisley Park the following day. The massive, 65,000-square-foot compound in Minnesota was completed in 1987, and doubled as Prince's residence and working studio. The production facilities of Prince's own label Paisley Park Records—including recording studios, a sound stage, and a large rehearsal hall—are located on the ground floor, while Prince's living quarters and offices are on the second floor. According to Business Insider UK , Nelson, one of Prince's four living siblings, was very close to the music star, and is thought to be the most likely to inherit Prince's estimated $300-million estate. It is hoped that Paisley Park will rival Elvis's Graceland in Memphis as a place of pilgrimage for music lovers from all over the world. Follow artnet News on Facebook. 2016-04-26 07:48 Lorena Muñoz

65 Ben Vida Makes Music With Smiles THE DAILY PIC (#1536): We all know that music can trigger emotions, but what about trying the equation the other way around? That's more or less what Ben Vida has done in a new video projection at Lisa Cooley gallery in New York. (Click on my image to watch a clip.) Vida has shot male and female actors in close up as they make unremarkable expressions in front of his camera. And then he's paired various musical tones with their different facial motions: Each time one woman blinks, a cheery “ping" sounds in the gallery; when an attractive young man turns up his mouth in a smile, we get to hear an optimistic rising tone. Vida's sitters aren't reacting to the emotional effects of the sounds, but are working in tandem with those sounds to touch us. It feels like we're watching the work of an ad man from the future who has taken manipulation to the next level. Or maybe today's ad men have got there already, but they're too skilled for us to know it. For a full survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive . 2016-04-26 06:00 Blake Gopnik

66 Meet German collector Heiner Wemhöner Standing in the impressive space of Berlin's Judin gallery, the German collector Heiner Wemhöner was pondering the etymology of the term pop-up. "I've never heard it before," he told artnet News. But that didn't stop him from adopting the format. Last week, Wemhöner celebrated the publication of a new book cataloging the paintings in his over 700-strong collection with an exhibition—installed for one night only; a pop-up show if you may—of paintings from the collection. A slew of friends, gallerists, artists, and fellow collectors gathered for the viewing, and picked up copies of the book—the fourth one published about his collection so far, with each tome dedicated to a different medium. Wemhöner is not your usual collector; he collects across mediums and relies on no-one but himself and the works' emotive character when adding pieces to his holdings. At the pop-up exhibition, curated by Philipp Bollmann, this approach was well demonstrated: A pair of selfish portraits (2013) by Tim Noble and Sue Webster hung next to Georg Baselitz 's Zweimalerich (2012), and Dutch Master (Menu) (2015) by Peter Stauss was positioned such that it would correspond with the Baselitz and an olive-green monochromatic canvas work by Liu Wei, titled No.21 (2013). "I'm not afraid of big names," Wemhöner says, pointing to the Baselitz, "but I'm not hesitant about artists who are completely unknown either. I must have a certain reaction to what I buy, be it a video, photography—nearly 50 percent of my collection is photography—or installations, I'm not fixed on one thing. " Most of the works in the show were created in the last five years. We stop in front of one of the older paintings included in the pop-up, a work from 1998 by Sandro Chia. A member of the Transavanguardia movement—which included fellow countrymen Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Nicola De Maria, and Enzo Cucchi—Chia came to Wemhöner's collection by way of his world-class winery. "I have quite a few works by him," he says, "He makes wine in the Castello Romitorio wine-making estate in Montalcino, and is a very famous Brunello producer, one of the best wines in the world. I was more interested in selling the wine when I first met him, than buying his art," he laughs. How did you start collecting? I never know really how to answer this question. The first piece was acquired in the late-mid-80s, a canvas by Michael Nowottny. I wouldn't call it the start of the collection, though, I just bought something I liked. Then I began looking at contemporary paintings from Italy, by artists whose names I didn't even know. When something I saw touched me, I'd ask for the price, and if the price was right for me, I bought it. But that wasn't the start of the collection either. I only seriously started building up a collection in the past seven to eight years. And the bulk of the collection was acquired in the last three or four year. And what is the most recent work you've added to your collection? I won't buy anything I didn't see for myself. And my other interest is to talk to the artist; I don't buy art from dead artists, I want to know them. Most recently at Art Cologne I bought some pieces, photography by Annette Kelm, and also quite a few paintings. And just the other day I bought a photograph by a Chinese artist from another collector couple here in Berlin. They liked it but it didn't fit into their collection, and since I collect a lot of Chinese art they invited me and I took it and now it's mine. So you never know. With such an unusual approach to buying, where do you usually find works, at art fairs, galleries, or directly at the artists' studios? Mostly by accident! I don't follow all the art fairs and gallery openings. I, of course, go to Art Basel, Art Basel in Hong Kong, Art Cologne, and Berlin Gallery Weekend. A big part of my collection is works by Chinese artists, which not too many people know about. The art must touch me—not necessarily only positively, it can be critical and difficult, but it has to move me. Also, I can only do it alone. I only choose works by myself, I can't have anyone talking to me or advising. It gets harder and harder because people know me by now, but I don't like to discuss my decisions with anyone. So the collection was built up following your intuition, rather than a specific focus? I have no follow ups, everything I do is by chance. I'm not retired, so going to see art is something I do in my free time, I'm not hopping from opening to opening. And I've never sold anything from my collection, why should I? Even if I see developments in an artist's work that I agree and accept are going in a different direction, if I bought something and liked it earlier on, why should I let it go? It's also a collection without a permanent space. Do you live with the works? I would like to, but I don't have this type of space. My garden in Herford [in North Rhine- Westphalia] is full of sculptures and the company's offices, too, all the spaces are used, but most of the works are in storage. I publish the books because I can't see the art! It's in storage and this allows me to revisit my collection. I'm actually looking for a permanent location for my collection in Berlin. I actually came very close to signing a deal recently, but someone else was faster. Berlin real estate is crazy at the moment! And the great locations are few and far between, as opposed to 10 years ago, so my timing is not ideal. But maybe within two years the collection will move into a permanent Berlin location. I'd like to have something with a history, like many of the city's industrial rooms. Just like in my collection, I like the unexpected. So why Berlin, why not open the collection in Herford? Art likes to be seen. We have a good museum in Herford, the Martha, but for me it makes more sense to be in Berlin where I have competition—which I like very much—and an audience from all around the world. ABOUT PAINTING, Positions from the Wemhöner Collection is published by Kerber . Follow artnet News on Facebook. 2016-04-26 05:36 Hili Perlson

67 Two Museums Dedicated to YSL Open in 2017 2017 is set to be a big year for the legacy of the legendary fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. In the autumn, two museums dedicated entirely to Saint Laurent's work and life will open in the two cities most important to the late genius: Paris and Marrakesh. The Parisian museum will be located in the former Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, which has just been closed for renovations after hosting a dazzling solo exhibition dedicated to the Moroccan fashion designer Noureddine Amir. Sited in the historical premises of 5 Avenue Marceau, where Saint Laurent designed and created his iconic collections between 1974 and 2002, the new museum will tell the story of his career through a constantly updated display of the collection. The exhibition space, which when finished will be doubled in size, has been refurbished by stage designer Nathalie Crinière and interior designer Jacques Grange, who have collaborated on numerous previous projects of the foundation. The opening of the Paris museum will coincide with the one in Marrakesh, which will host the collection of the foundation, displayed across over 4,000 square meters. Saint Laurent and Bergé discovered the Moroccan capital in 1966 and bought a property there shortly after, and the city became a key spot in their careers and lives. The museum will be located on Rue Yves Saint Laurent, near the iconic Jardin Majorelle, a garden he and Pierre Bergé saved from redevelopment in 1980 and that has now become, with its museum dedicated to Berber culture, a major cultural site in Marrakesh welcoming almost 700,000 visitors every year. Follow artnet News on Facebook. 2016-04-26 05:21 Lorena Muñoz

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