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37 articles, 2016-07-21 18:00 1 On Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Lorna — Untitled (Blog) — Walker Art Center As evidenced by the wonderful interview between Lynn Hershman

(1.03/2) Leeson (b. 1941) and Juliana Huxtable (b. 1987) in Art Forum this summer, Hershman Leeson's pioneering media legacy continues to provo... 2016-07-21 14:55 905Bytes blogs.walkerart.org 2 360 Degrees of “Race for the Prize” — The Green Room — Walker Art Center Smoke guns and confetti cannons were out in full force during the (1.03/2) final set of Rock the Garden 2016—and videographer Chuck Olsen of Visual was there to capture the experience in immersive, 360- deg... 2016-07-21 14:53 897Bytes blogs.walkerart.org 3 Art Berlin Contemporary Reduces Exhibitor Numbers for Its 2016 Edition The Berlin-based art fair is back for its ninth edition with only 60 (1.02/2) exhibitors, and some exciting changes in store. 2016-07-21 04:05 5KB news.artnet.com 4 DAY 2 AT ARTEXPO: SPECIAL KEYNOTE, LIVE ART DEMOS & MORE Friday at Artexpo brought throngs of visitors through the gates of Pier 94 to see artwork from over 400 exhibitors from around the world, comprising more than 1,000 artists in total. The doors opened early for the event's Keynote Presentation by Pam Danziger, "Marketing Art... 2016-07-21 18:00 1KB artexponewyork.com 5 Hold your breath, dance slowly—The making of a visual identity — The Gradient — Walker Art Center Exhibition view On the exhibition Curated by Misa Jeffereis, the exhibition Lee Kit: Hold your breath, dance slowly marks visual artist Lee Kit’s first U. S. solo show. Kit invites... 2016-07-21 14:53 919Bytes blogs.walkerart.org 6 What writers of color say we all should read now In the wake of the recent shooting death in Falcon Heights of Philando Castile, Twin Cities writers, artists and teachers of color have suggestions for books that might help bridge the gap between our cultures. 2016-07-21 14:55 14KB www.startribune.com 7 How Do Black Lives Matter in MoMA’s Collection? MoMA | How Do Black Lives Matter in MoMA’s Collection? 2016-07-21 14:55 9KB www.moma.org 8 Under construction: The Walker crowdsources a fantastic house of cards Paper City is a monthlong collective construction session meant to break down divisions between theory and practice, architecture and play. 2016-07-21 14:54 874Bytes www.minnpost.com 9 the floating OFF hotel docks by the riverbank of the seine in paris moored at the foot of the austerlitz station, the off hotel seine offers a new urban river experience - the first of its kind based in the french capital. 2016-07-21 13:24 2KB www.designboom.com 10 pokemon go: the socio-cultural and economic impact the smarphone game was developed by niantic, who was part of a $30 million investment from nintendo 2016-07-21 13:20 1KB www.designboom.com 11 new york subway revamp includes open car design with WiFi + USB ports the new subway cars will include vital enhancements to their exteriors and interiors, that will reduce wait times and increase capacity. 2016-07-21 13:05 3KB www.designboom.com 12 designboom editorial internship available in milan! designboom is a studio of fun individuals, and we're looking for ambitious creatives who are not afraid to take risks to join us! 2016-07-21 12:45 4KB www.designboom.com 13 the hills by west 8 open to the public on governors island ten acres of new public space has opened on new york's governors island. the park, which has been designed by urban design and landscape architecture firm west 8, includes a variety of landscapes, public art, play areas, and 360 degree views of the... 2016-07-21 12:39 4KB www.designboom.com 14 igor sirotov architects has constructed PS1 house into alpine rock face in russia igor sirotov have constructed a private hosue titled 'PS1' into the rock face of a surrounding lake in an unknown location in russia. 2016-07-21 12:10 2KB www.designboom.com

15 world's fastest drone can outrun a cheetah while capturing 4k video it happens to be the world’s fastest production drone, capable of flying 85 mph. 2016-07-21 11:39 1KB www.designboom.com 16 Caitlyn Jenner Addresses Key Life Moments in H&M Video The interview and a separate short film mark the release of the Swedish fast-fashion giant’s For Every Victory sports collection. 2016-07-21 11:32 2KB wwd.com 17 penda designs 'san shan bridge' for 2022 winter olympics the bridge by penda forms a dynamic sculpture to the more mountainous scenery, where all major outdoor competitions at the winter games will be take place. 2016-07-21 10:30 2KB www.designboom.com 18 Yoshio Kubo Spring 2017 Show Known for his high-energy, theatrical runway shows and avant- garde street wear, the Japanese designer showed a decidedly more toned-down collection for spring. 2016-07-21 09:29 2KB wwd.com 19 British Fashion Council Releases Provisional Schedule The British Fashion Council has detailed some changes for spring 2017. 2016-07-21 08:51 1KB wwd.com 20 naruse inokuma transforms underground passageway into 'world of illusion' in tokyo inside the seibu department store, a combination of spot lights and mirrors have been installed by naruse inokuma to give it a dramatic atmosphere. 2016-07-21 08:45 1KB www.designboom.com 21 Is Alber Elbaz Joining Uniqlo? According to sources, Lanvin’s former creative director has held discussions with Uniqlo’s corporate parent about some form of collaboration. 2016-07-21 08:27 2KB wwd.com 22 Suhanya Raffel Appointed Executive Director of Hong Kong’s M+ Museum The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in Hong Kong has appointed Suhanya Raffel as executive director of the M+ Museum. 2016-07-21 07:03 3KB news.artnet.com 23 A Video Carries Hot New Yorkers to Cool Finland Read the Daily Pic on a video at Scandinavia House by Eija-Liisa Ahtila that's (almost) as good as a plane ticket. 2016-07-21 07:00 2KB news.artnet.com 24 Fledermaus at Opera Holland Park Has Star Soprano, Struggles With Magic: Review Review of "Die Fledermaus" at Opera Holland Park London says it is a musical treat with great conducting and performance by soprano Jennifer France, though it fails to capture the operatta's magic. 2016-07-21 06:23 3KB www.blouinartinfo.com 25 ekparichay designs clapton, a minimal teakwood sound system 'clapton' is constructed using conventional woodworking techniques, resulting in a compact, rustic feeling speaker for the home. 2016-07-21 06:15 994Bytes www.designboom.com 26 Ragnar Kjartansson Takes to Barbican Stage With Bands The National and Múm The Icelandic artist presented an avant-garde Eurovision-like evening of performances to coincide with his Barbican exhibition. 2016-07-21 05:23 3KB www.blouinartinfo.com 27 Sujata Tibrewala’s Creation ‘Oppression’ at Cupertino, California Indian origin artist Sujata Tibrewala is exhibiting paintings at her Cupertino, California studio. The artist marks the American Independence Day by dedicating the entire July month to the idea of freedom. 2016-07-21 05:17 3KB www.blouinartinfo.com 28 7 Shows Not to Miss at Les Recontres d’Arles 2016 We picked seven of the most intriguing exhibitions currently on view at the annual French photography festival 'Les Recontres d'Arles.' 2016-07-21 04:15 6KB news.artnet.com 29 robot3 transforms ramen bar into metallic BBQ bar hut in beijing with a total area of only 52 square-meters, excluding the kitchen, the project features narrow spaces, a limited budget and a poor location. 2016-07-21 04:05 2KB www.designboom.com 30 Shinola Previews First Women’s Luxury Watch and Jewelry Collections The brand will work with diamonds and semiprecious stones for its first foray into fine jewelry and luxury watches. 2016-07-21 04:01 5KB wwd.com 31 Birds of a Feather: Saunders, Lumley Talk Fashion and ‘AbFab’ film ”Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie” stars chat with WWD about fashion and how it’s changed since the TV show first aired in the Nineties. 2016-07-21 04:01 1KB wwd.com 32 Art Collection of Legendary Dealer Leslie Waddington to Be Auctioned at Christie’s London Works from the collection of the legendary art dealer Leslie Waddington will hit the auction block at Christie's London during Frieze Week. 2016-07-21 04:00 3KB news.artnet.com 33 New Exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute Explores the Relationship Between Visual Art and Prosthetics The exhibition "The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics" at the Henry Moore Institute explores how these two fascinating realms relate. 2016-07-21 04:00 3KB news.artnet.com 34 Student Artist Wants to Make Bag with Alexander McQueen’s Skin Central Saint Martins student Tina Gorjanc plans on creating a line of accessories using late fashion designer Alexander McQueen's skin. 2016-07-21 03:01 2KB news.artnet.com 35 Homage to Chen Wen Hsi at Chan Hampe Galleries Singapore "Monkey Business," a group exhibition featuring artworks by Justin Loke and Samuel Chen, will be showcased at Chan Hampe Galleries from July 28 to August 14. 2016-07-21 02:18 1KB www.blouinartinfo.com 36 Filipino Artists Present ‘WASAK! Reloaded’ at ARNDT Fine Art ’WASAK! Reloaded’ will be showcased at ARNDT Fine Art in Singapore from August 28 to October 1, 2016. 2016-07-21 02:16 1KB www.blouinartinfo.com 37 designers hide a lush landscaped oasis within a courtyard in montpellier for its contribution to the festival des architectures vives, belle ville atelier d'architecture has realized a multi-sensory and immersive landscape. 2016-07-21 02:15 1KB www.designboom.com Articles

37 articles, 2016-07-21 18:00

1 On Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Lorna — Untitled (Blog) — Walker Art Center (1.03/2) As evidenced by the wonderful interview between Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941) and Juliana Huxtable (b. 1987) in Art Forum this summer, Hershman Leeson’s pioneering media legacy continues to provoke and inspire contemporary artists. Here is a look at one of her daring technological accomplishments, which is part of the Walker Art Center’s permanent collection. And on […] 2016-07-21 14:55 By

2 360 Degrees of “Race for the Prize” — The Green Room — Walker Art Center (1.03/2) Smoke guns and confetti cannons were out in full force during the final set of Rock the Garden 2016—and videographer Chuck Olsen of Visual was there to capture the experience in immersive, 360-degree video. Watch as Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips perform “Race for the Prize,” off the 1999 album The Soft Bulletin. (See if […] 2016-07-21 14:53 By

3 3 Art Berlin Contemporary Reduces Exhibitor Numbers for Its 2016 Edition (1.02/2) Returning for its ninth edition from September 15-18, Berlin’s homegrown art fair abc (Art Berlin Contemporary) has announced a considerably reduced list of participants for this year’s edition, scaling down from about 100 exhibitors from 17 countries in 2015, to only 60. While the majority of the participating dealers are Berlin based, there are several returning exhibitors from further afield: Ellis King will make the trip from Dublin, Ireland; Vilma Gold is coming from London, UK; meanwhile ATHR gallery is traveling to Berlin all the way from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Related: Are the Art World’s ‘Peripheries’ Becoming the New Centers? Taking place at the traditional venue of Station Berlin—a former postal depot—the fair’s artist-friendly format focuses on solo presentations. Announcing another major change for this year’s edition, abc has launched a new partnership with the arts incubator OUTSET Germany, to inaugurate an acquisition fund. A four-member panel of experts will decide on the purchase of an exceptional work from the fair for donation to a German museum. The first recipient of this charitable fund, which aims to strengthen institutional relations, will be the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. The fair has always taken an innovative approach to its design to deliberately differentiate itself from the traditional art fair format, and this year is no different. The organizers have announced some exciting changes including a new “U-shaped” booth design developed by the architect Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge which promises to deliver a “cabinet like atmosphere,” and promote a more direct engagement with the works on display. Related: 10 Emerging Artists You Really Need To Know Showing at Art Berlin Contemporary 2015 Some highlights to look forward to include a dual presentation of Monika Sosnowska and Pieter Schoolwerth at Capitan Petzel, Berlin; Laure Prouvost at carlier gebauer, Berlin, Secundino Hernández at Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt; Erwin Wurm at König Galerie, Berlin; and Marcel Dzama at Sies + Höke, Cologne. See the complete list of participants below. Artists on show are represented in bold: Athr: Aya Haidar Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Vilma Gold: Markus Selg Galerie Guido W. Baudach: Tamina Amadyar BQ: Raphaela Vogel Buchmann Galerie : Martin Disler Galerie Luis Campaña: Dirk Skrebe Capitain Petzel: Monika Sosnowska , Pieter Schoolwerth carlier gebauer: Laure Prouvost Charim Galerie: Lisl Ponger Mehdi Chouakri: Saâdane Afif Delmes & Zander: André Robillard Dittrich & Schlechtriem: Simon Mullan Galerie Eigen+Art: Despina Stokou Ellis King: Ryan Estep Konrad Fischer Galerie : Juergen Staack Galerie Bärbel Grässlin: Secundino Hernández Grimmuseum: Alona Rodeh Galerie Karin Guenther, Galerie Barbara Weiss: Berta Fischer Galerie Michael Haas: Dirk Lange Häusler Contemporary : Roman Signer Natalia Hug: Alwin Lay Galería Isla Flotante: Mariela Scafati Klemm’s: Sven Johne Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition: William N. Copley and Dimitri Petrov KM: Simone Gilges Galerie koal: Yitzhak Golombek Christine König Galerie : Micha Payer + Martin Gabriel König Galerie: Erwin Wurm Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler: GCC Krobath : Sofie Thorsen Galerie Gebr. Lehmann: Eberhard Havekost alexander levy: Fabian Knecht Linn Lühn: Florian Baudrexel Galerie Hans Mayer: Kenny Scharf Galerie Max Mayer: Henning Fehr und Philipp Rühr Galería Metropolitana: Joaquín Luzoro Meyer Riegger : Robert Janitz Meyer Riegger, The Modern Institute: Scott Myles Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder: Daniel Knorr Galerie Tobias Naehring: Eva Grubinger Galerie Neu: Sean Snyder neugerriemschneider: Noa Eshkol Galerie Georg Nothelfer: Madeleine Dietz Piktogram: Tomasz Mróz Profile Gallery: Jarosław Kozłowski PSM: Ariel Reichman Dawid Radziszewski: Marcin Zarzeka Philipp von Rosen Galerie: Jose Dávila Aurel Scheibler : Michael Wutz Esther Schipper: Christopher Roth Galerie Thomas Schulte: Julian Irlinger Gabriele Senn Galerie : Marko Lulić Sies + Höke: Marcel Dzama Société: Sean Raspet, Timur Sí-Qin Sperling: Andrew Gilbert Sprüth Magers : Andreas Schulze galeria stereo: Roman Stańczak Galerie Fons Welters : David Jablonowski Wentrup: Miriam Böhm Barbara Wien : Ian Kiaer Zak Branicka: Joanna Rajkowska 2016-07-21 04:05 Associate Editor

4 DAY 2 AT ARTEXPO: SPECIAL KEYNOTE, LIVE ART DEMOS & MORE Friday at Artexpo brought throngs of visitors through the gates of Pier 94 to see artwork from over 400 exhibitors from around the world, comprising more than 1,000 artists in total. The doors opened early for the event’s Keynote Presentation by Pam Danziger, “Marketing Art in Today’s New Luxury Style,” during which the renowned speaker, author, and market researcher provided tips for artists and gallery owners in attendance. The day was filled with inspiring Meet the Artist events and live art demonstrations, giving attendees the chance to see featured exhibitors in action and learn about their paths to becoming successful artists. Showgoers also enjoyed mingling with exhibitors and other art lovers alike at the night’s two parties: the Meet & Greet Reception sponsored by Art Brand Studios, and the Focus on Design Friday Reception sponsored by Art Design Consultants. It was another fabulous day and evening at Artexpo —and we know Saturday and Sunday will continue the trend! Don’t forget to follow Artexpo New York on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to stay updated on all the fun happening at the show this weekend! 2016-07-21 18:00 lmullikin

5 Hold your breath, dance slowly—The making of a visual identity — The Gradient — Walker Art Center Exhibition view On the exhibition Curated by Misa Jeffereis, the exhibition Lee Kit: Hold your breath, dance slowly marks visual artist Lee Kit’s first U. S. solo show. Kit invites you to wander into soft-lighted galleries, hold your breath in quiet anticipation, and slowly sway from nook to nook to the melody of Elvis Presley’s […] 2016-07-21 14:53 By

6 What writers of color say we all should read now In her prize-winning book, “Citizen: An American Lyric” (Graywolf Press, 2014), poet and essayist Claudia Rankine tells stories of black men who have been pulled over by the police. “Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. Get on the ground. Get on the ground now,” she writes. “And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.” In the anthology “A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota,” 16 writers of color share their experiences from harassment to bigotry. And in his 2015 National Book Award-winning “Between the World and Me,” Ta-Nahesi Coates writes a letter to his son about the “racist violence that has been woven into American culture”. How does one culture understand another culture? How can one culture understand another culture? Books are one way. Last week, Philando Castile, a black man, was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcoln Heights. In the wake of his death, Twin Cities writers, artists and teachers of color have suggestions for books that might help bridge that gap. “What helps me process the events of the last couple of weeks is connecting this struggle to the larger history in the United States. My students and I find solace in James Baldwin’s ‘ The Fire Next Time.’ His work provides the background necessary to contextualize these events to show that these are part of a historical pattern. It helps my students see that this isn’t a series of random events and if we look back far enough and recognize this history, then we can change it.” — Valerie Déus “Michelle Alexander’s ‘The New Jim Crow ’ is the one book that I would point to, more than any other, for anyone looking to truly understand where we are at as a society. The book breaks down, in irrefutable detail, how the prison industrial complex destroys black lives, affirming that police brutality is simply the most visible and extreme symptom of a much deeper systemic problem that affects millions of people.” — Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre "Here are a five books that I'd recommend, with the understanding that it is no book itself that will change our conditions, but these are certainly some books I'd say offer some profound analytical and imaginative tools. As for ordering, people can send an email to [email protected] and place an order on any of these titles. We send an email invoice for our orders that can be paid online. 1. " Those Bones Are Not My Child" by Toni Cade Bambara. Bambara's last work which looks at the Atlanta Child Murders of 79 - 81 through the fictional account of one family. She spent 15 years, all the way up until her death in 95, working on this gift of love while organizing with the families affected. Bambara was a true community scribe and I think this book teaches us to not look away, to not accept as natural and inevitable that "black children of the wageless poor will just at times be subject to violence. " 2. " Revolutionary Mothering: Love On The Frontlines," edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Mai'a Williams. This is one of the most important collections I have read in some time. In the tradition of, This Bridge Called My Back , Revolutionary Mothering, looks at mothering as a revolutionary social practice, a politics of necessity, a responsibility to each other. This book is magic. 3. " This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women Of Color," edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. This book is a groundbreaking text for women of color feminism, a coalition building text born out of the coalition building practice of the women of color and indigenous women who authored it. Necessary, so necessary. 4. " Black Marxism: The Making Of The Black Radical Tradition," by Cedric Robinson. Robinson gave us a complicated reading of Marxist theory, peeling back the layers, detailing the racial nature of capitalism. He articulated for us with inspiring detail a theory of black radicalism in everyday black people. 5. " Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years Of Movement Building with Barbara Smith," edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks with Barbara Smith. Barbara Smith is one of this generations pioneering voices in black radical politics and sadly far too little know of this profound co author of The Combahee River Collective Statement. This book gleans the wisdom of Smith's life and practice through documents, interviews and articles. I want all my loved ones to read this book. — Chaun Webster "What we need to read now is ' Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings' by Joy Harjo, who tells us how to be human together: W hat a wild dilemma, how to make it to the stars, on a highway slick with fear--- " Harjo's compassion for human confusion twins with her passion for music, that great mediator. There we were as if we were music.//You cannot legislate music to lockstep nor can you legislate/ the spirit of music to stop at political boundaries---//---Or poetry or art or anything that is of value or matters in/ this world, and in the next worlds.//This is about getting to know each other. " —Heid E. Erdrich “Mychal Denzel Smith’s ‘Invisible Man Got the Whole World Watching ’ may be a difficult read for the uninitiated seeking insight into black millennial rage, but readers who can embrace its raw truth will come away with an advanced understanding of what it’s like to grow up black and male in modern America. “I often recommended ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X ’ as told to Alex Haley as a reminder that people are never just one thing. All human beings are vast and complex. All of us have a tremendous capacity for change, and often, what we’re told about a person is vastly different from who they are, vastly different from the truth of their life. “Sean Hill’s ‘Dangerous Goods’ is a great read. It offers insights on race that are, by turns, nuanced and subtle or direct and vivid. Sometimes the black experience is not the focus. Sometimes the subject is a bird or an unfulfilled crush. Still, it will leave you with an expanded sense of our awesome and terrible world and keener regard for humanity within it.” — Michael Kleber-Diggs “ ‘All American Boys’ by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely and ‘ How it Went Down’ by Kekla Magoon are young-adult novels that focus on white violence against black males; one results in hospitalization, the other in death. Different characters narrate the same situation from their respective social locations, pushing readers to consider how truth and fear are constructed. Ultimately, the novels offer a searing indictment on how whiteness and hypermasculinity operate to destroy black lives. — Sarah Park Dahlen “The great poet Nikky Finney once remarked that one of her goals as a poet was to create beauty out of the ugly. The poems in the anthology ‘Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky,’ edited by Tony Medina (Jacar Press, 2016), certainly accomplish that. This collection of work by a multigenerational, multiracial ensemble of poets addresses police violence against people of color, and is essential reading in these unbearable times.” — Bao Phi “I’d like to suggest ‘ Whorled’ by Ed Bok Lee. It’s a necessary reminder that love, too, needs to learn. It is a beautiful memory of our hurt, collective and individual, at the barrels of guns and in the words we spew, of America and the world’s long journey to each other, the falling apart so we can be together. Lee writes in: ‘If in America’: ‘If a tree falls in a forest, / does it make a sound? / If a rifle fires a shot in the woods, / whose body first hits the ground? If you believe in God, but not the good in everyone.’ There is wisdom in these pages. The poems not only identify the hurting, they arrive at a deeper understanding, fuel the hope of healing.” — Kao Kalia Yang “ ‘If Beale Street Could Talk, ’ a short but complex novel by James Baldwin, feels disturbingly contemporary even though it was published in 1974. It concerns lovers Tish and Fonny, who are fighting with their families and community to vindicate Fonny from a false rape charge, and the deadening grip of a rapacious criminal justice system. An uncompromising meditation on love and power, this brilliant novel commands the reader’s rapt attention throughout, and delivers Baldwin’s blistering insights into the psychology of American racism.” — Shannon Gibney “I recommend, in addition to the other books named, ‘The History of White People’ by historian Nell Irvin Painter. It will show, in meticulous detail and lucid analysis and powerful writing, how white people came to be invented and how whiteness evolved along with the historical flow of events in order to survive and maintain its potency. This book is liberatory. I especially appreciate its analysis of how white notions of beauty were legitimated by the ‘science of race.’ Beauty — and therefore value, what is valuable to see, what is worth looking at and regarding for pleasure, inspiration, appreciation — is important to how people of color are racialized and devalued and dehumanized. This book shows us that we see what we are taught to see — we can unlearn it.” — Sun Yung Shin “ ‘Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools,’ by Monique W. Morris. I just started reading it and already I can see that it is hugely important. We cannot ignore what’s happening to the girls. Also, ‘Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota.’ Published last year, it is an extremely relevant and important anthology of writings by Black Minnesota writers living and dead, urban and rural, about living while black in Minnesota. “Buffy Smith’s book, ‘Mentoring At-Risk Students through the Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education,’ is an important volume for folks who work in higher education.” — Carolyn Holbrook “ ‘Playing in the Dark: Whiteness & the Literary Imagination’ by Toni Morrison explores the ways canonical white American authors distort and caricature their black characters and project onto their black characters anarchy and routine dread, or conversely, ‘excessive, limitless love.’ Morrison demonstrates how these famous white authors cannot adequately depict black characters or adequately describe their consciousness. The failures of these white American authors are indicative of our society’s failure to see blacks and the continued white psychic projection that still plagues us in everything from police encounters to school systems to mass entertainment to everyday social interactions.” — David Mura “ ‘ Dreams from My Father,’ by Barack Obama. It is such a profoundly American story. It explains America, explains society, explains immigration, explains the importance of the places from where our families come, both here and abroad. It is an astute analysis of our culture and left me thinking that these insights and ideas are great but too true and cerebral for anyone like this to ever get elected to anything. “I don’t know if anyone has read David Rodiger’s ‘Wages of Whiteness.’ I have sampled it, but it is an astute understanding by a white male about privilege before the term got used like it is today.” — Clarence White “ ‘A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota,’ edited by Sun Yung Shin. This anthology contains powerful writing by many of my favorite writers. Each voice helps us step inside a different perspective, exploding assumptions and stereotypes with each page. To heal differences we have to admit they exist, then we have to listen.” — Susan Power “Bryan Stevenson’s ‘Just Mercy’ provides plain-spoken, concrete examples of what we mean when we say there is ‘systemic bias’ built into the way our justice system works, from top to bottom. Read it, absorb what it has to say, and you will understand.” — David Lawrence Grant “ ‘ Revolutionary Mothering’ by Alexis Pauline Gumbs is said to be a movement-shifting anthology committed to birthing new worlds, full of faith and hope for what we can raise up together. And it is! Radical Real Raw talk rooted in knowledge, passion, and history. Available at Ancestry Books (Minneapolis) Support Local “Below are responses from my community. I was compelled to extend the question to some of the best and brightest. What a list!” — Shá Cage The list, from Christina Ham, Beverly Cottman, E. G. Bailey, Maria Asp, Alizarin Bo Sum Menninga-Fong, Ansa Akyea, Ariah Fine, Michelle Hensley, Alan Berks, Rebekah Crisanta De Ybarra: “Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! Feminist Visions for a Just World” (anthology) and “This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color,” edited by Sherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa. “The Warmth of Other Suns,” by Isabelle Wilkerson (for understanding of The Great Migration — really important for understanding how the past century brought us to this point) “The New Jim Crow, ” by Michelle Alexander “Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance,” by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o “Wise Why’s Y’s,” by Amiri Baraka “Citizen,” by Claudia Rankine “Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates “Things Fall Apart,” by Chinua Achebe “Angels with Dirty Faces,” by Walidah Imarisha “Learning to be White, ” by Thandeka “Racism without Racists,” by Eduardo Bonilla Silva “Homegoing,” by Yaa Gyasi “The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born,” by Ayi Kwei Armah “Nickel and Dimed,” by Barbara Ehrenreich (perfect for intro-level white folks who think inequity doesn’t exist) “Strength to Love, ” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Whiteness of a Different Color,” by Matthew Frye Jacobson “Race Rebels,” by Robin D. G. Kelley “Race Matters,” by Cornel West “The Middle Passage,” by Charles Johnson “Black Skin, White Masks,” by Frantz Fanon “Killing the Black Body,” by Dorothy Roberts “The Fire Next Time,” by James Baldwin “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America,” by Kiese Laymon “Americanah,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “Just Mercy, ” by Bryan Stevenson “Sister Citizen,” by Melissa Harris-Perry “White Like Me,” by Tim Wise @StribBooks www.facebook.com/startribunebooks 2016-07-21 14:55 Laurie Hertzel

7 How Do Black Lives Matter in MoMA’s Collection? Less than a month after 49 people were killed and 53 wounded by a single gunman at a gay Latino party in Orlando, Florida, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile’s gruesome murders by police officers were captured on video and widely circulated. The two recordings of Sterling’s death were made by Abdullah Muflahi, a local store owner, and Arthur Reed, an activist, while Castile’s was made in a lucid, terrifying account by his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, under police duress as he died next to her. At least 5.4 million people have seen Reynolds’s video as of Saturday morning. Documentation of violence against black people is nothing new: it has been disseminated through photography and video since the beginnings of both media. But the fact that the recent events were streamed instantaneously and made available for mass distribution on our handheld devices has galvanized a mass response, prompting protests throughout the country as Louisiana and Minnesota’s governors have sought a civil rights investigation from the Justice Department, and President Obama reminded the nation that “we’ve got some tough history and we haven’t gotten through all of that history yet.” And then on Thursday evening a sniper, who served in Afghanistan in the U. S. Army Reserve, killed five members of law enforcement during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas. While The Guardian has documented 136 black victims of U. S. police killings since the beginning of 2016 alone, the recent fraught images have become a rallying cry for politicians, activists, and artists. Some have responded via social media and Instagram, posting images of the 1930s flag the NAACP would fly outside of its New York City office to publicly announce a lynching. These posts not only make a connection between this moment and the history of state violence against black people in the U. S. but are also meant to remind us of the organization’s anti-lynching pamphlet campaign that often redeployed lynching photographs to reclaim the power of image making as a tool to intervene against state violence. Others have posted the black monochrome square that has appeared repeatedly after police killings, as if to say there are in fact no images that can capture the scale of this crisis and that the image of the black body in pain is part and parcel of how black people are policed. In other words: Can images do anything but aggravate the problem? At their best, pictures—on Instagram or at a museum—can offer a space of both meditation and change where anger, fear, and ambivalence can coexist. Sometimes artists respond to documents of death by giving you another option than either looking away or staring at the gore of your news feed. At other times, the significance of an artwork itself can change, especially when it enters a collection or institution. As it moves from the original place it was made, it takes on added meanings, rubbing up against other artworks and adding to our public image bank as new events occur and time passes. Here are three works—all recent additions to MoMA’s collection—by contemporary artists who have responded to anti-black racism over the past 50-plus years. In Steffani Jemison’s 2010–11 video, Escaped Lunatic , a steady stream of black people run across the screen, sprinting, jumping and rolling through the streets of Houston. The video borrows its narrative structure from early 20th-century cinema—the chase genre in particular—which often depicted African Americans in scenes of flight from various forms of authority. Shooting the work with a Houston-based parkour team when she was living in that city, Jemison links a structure borrowed from early cinema to a contemporary scene, boldly linking the unjust conditions of urban life for black folks across time. Put simply: Jemison’s work reminds this viewer that black folks are perceived as fugitives whether they are running or just have their hands up. As I recently rewatched the figures move across the pixelated image, it newly reminded me of the death of Israel Leija, the subject of another high- speed chase the year Jemison began her video. When Leija, the subject of a warrant for a misdemeanor probation violation, evaded arrest by car, authorities set up a spike strip to disable his highway escape. Despite the certainty of thwarting Leija, Texas state trooper Chagrin L. Mullenix nevertheless fired six shots, killing him, and afterwards proudly boasted “How’s that for proactive?” (Last month, in an unsigned opinion, the U. S. Supreme Court decided to overturn a circuit opinion, giving Mullenix immunity; Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented in a statement that chastised the court.) While Jemison’s video depicts another black chase scene that seems inevitable, in her work one can imagine her figures’ flights as small escapes to a place out of view but no less real. At 6 x 12 feet, Faith Ringgold’s 1967 American People Series #20: Die is a monumental painting—a document of its time as well as the long stay of the issues it depicts. The final work in a series inspired by a range of modern icons, including Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, Josef Albers’s abstract geometric murals, and Ad Reinhardt’s black monochrome paintings, Die represents a culmination in the artist’s search for what she called “a black aesthetic.” A crimson bloodbath on a black-and-white checkered ground, the canvas depicts a riotous scene in which a slew of archetypical white and black men, women, and children are entangled in relationships built at once out of conflict and care. Curiously, only two subjects (one black, one white) hold weapons, yet everyone appears to be injured, implying that people on all sides of the color line are the potential victims of racial violence, which itself can take many forms. Outfitting her subjects in the business attire of the time, Ringgold’s picture suggests that racial tensions are not only the stuff of street warfare, but what we would today call microagressions—those daily, seemingly fleeting forms of verbal and behavioral discriminations that add up to create violent environments for people of color across all classes and segments of society. While the artist worried that Die would be a prophesy of her times, the work has proven to anticipate a far longer arc. Let’s be clear about how Ringgold’s work resonates today: Just as the painting indicts all of the suit-and-dress-wearing, white-collar workers in her picture, we must implicate the professional institutions in which we find ourselves as part of a broader anti-black culture. Kerry James Marshall, known for his large-scale paintings of coal-colored black subjects at the club, in love, and enjoying some of the creature comforts of African American life, completed his Untitled (policeman) last year. In it, a black cop with a Chicago insignia on his hat sits on his squad car’s hood, underneath the nighttime lights of a parking lot. He stares into his own space and away from the viewer, with one hand on his hip and the other in his lap. At once authoritative and contemplative, resolute and undecided, he is not simply a type—for example, the black policeman as a contradictory symbol of power and powerlessness. Rather, Marshall portrays this policeman as an individual whose reflective countenance reveals a subject the artist describes as in the middle of thinking of the circumstances that he is in. In watching the images of Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown holding his head in his hand during a prayer vigil on Friday, it was hard for me not to think of him as an avatar of Marshall’s rendering of a black man trying to fix an institution seen by many in this country to be structured by racism. Indeed, Brown—an African American and fourth-generation Dallas native who championed greater transparency by Dallas law enforcement before Michael Brown’s 2014 death—has his own complex personal history of police violence: He lost his former partner in the line of duty, his brother in a violent crime, and his son after he killed a police officer and another man. But what do we do that goes beyond Brown’s public grief? What happens after Marshall’s policeman’s self-reflection? What is greater than the effects of this Museum’s acquisitions? I have a certain faith that Jemison’s image of flight and fugitivity, Ringgold’s sense of the banal pervasiveness of racial violence, and Marshall’s portrait of a vexed authority figure are not just scenes of contemplation. Maybe they will intervene into our visual languages, spawning our sense of social imagination. For example: Will Marshall’s officer get up from his car to unholster and give up the gun to which his right hand points—another black rectilinear monochrome at the horizon line of the car’s hood? Can we arrive at the nearby place to which Jemison’s subjects are fleeing one after the next? If these works offer anything in this moment of crisis, it is space in which we might be undone and welcome the unknown. Analyzing and acting beside one another, perhaps we’ll continue the good fight and pursue the hard love we need right now. Thanks to Elizabeth Alexander, Morgan Bassichis, Naomi Beckwith, Jocelyn Brown, Stuart Comer, Leah Dickerman, Adrienne Edwards, Darby English, Thelma Golden, Che Gossett, Kathy Halbreich, Saidiya Hartman, Rujeko Hockley, Laura Hoptman, Ana Janevski, Steffani Jemison, Kellie Jones, Carolyn Kelly, Glenn Lowry, Kerry James Marshall, Helen Molesworth, Faith Ringgold, Lanka Tattersall, Ann Temkin, Akili Tommasino, and Andrew Wallace for their prompts, ongoing conversations, or writing about related topics. 2016-07-21 14:55 Posted Sandy

8 Under construction: The Walker crowdsources a fantastic house of cards Bill Lindeke, Ph. D., is an urban geographer and writer who focuses on how our environments shape our lives. He has taught at the University of Minnesota and Metro State University, blogs at Twin City Sidewalks and streets.mn , and is a member of the Saint Paul Planning Commission. Follow Bill on Twitter: @BillLindeke. 2016-07-21 14:54 About The

9 the floating OFF hotel docks by the riverbank of the seine in paris the floating OFF hotel docks by the riverbank of the seine in paris with the plethora of hotels, hostels and accommodation available for visitors to paris, the recently opened OFF hotel offers people a different experience due to its unique location and concept. based on the seine – 21st arrondissement – the floating craft is docked at the foot of the fare d’austerlitz between the charles de gaulle bridge. the plunge pool sits at the same level as the river all images © céline demoux the OFF paris seine is designed by gèrard ronzatti / seine design; comprised of 58 rooms including four suites, a tapa and cocktail bar, a plunge pool and summer terrace area. the vessel-like structure is topped with a slanting zinc roof that opens the façades outwards to the water, while a central glass ceiling invites natural light into the interior. set 10 meters out from the riverbank via walkways and a marina, sections of the façade can be accessed by the public; this celebrates the transparency of volumes, while the areas belonging to the hotel is marked with a silver-wood finish which blends naturally into the environment. 58 rooms including four suites, a tapa and cocktail bar, a plunge pool and summer terrace area moored at the foot of the austerlitz station, off is the first hotel and bar on water in paris the rooms are oriented from atypical view of the seine riverbanks to the historic paris austerlitz railway station. two of the suites feature a double panoramic view of the water, while the two monochromatic designer suites were realized by designers maurizio galante and tal lancman. OFF was designed by gérard ronzatti from seine design the vessel is docked on the seine, paris’ 21st arrondissement rooms face onto the water or into the city a glass ceiling runs the length of the vessel, inviting natural light into the core space 2016-07-21 13:24 Natasha Kwok

10 pokemon go: the socio-cultural and economic impact pokémon go: value of nintendo stock doubled due to its augmented reality game — the socio- cultural and economic impact pokémon go: value of nintendo stock doubled due to its augmented reality game — the socio-cultural and economic impact just as everyone had expected nintendo to change so that their technology could fit into the smartphone gaming industry. instead, the smartphone gaming industry was changed so that it could fit in with nintendo and their characters. of course, there are plenty of analysts questioning how much nintendo has had to do with the latest craze. pokémon go was developed by niantic, who was part of a $30 million investment from nintendo, and has always had a stake in the pokémon company, which manages every aspect of the brand. nintendo refers to the development of the app as a partnership with niantic, so is likely to have had creative input too. all the while it remains unclear what nintendo’s exact involvement is at this stage, what is clear that the game will boost their revenue stream from the period of decline they were suffering from the wii u’s lackluster performance. it signals the video-game giants’s wish to progress towards spontaneous, social gaming experiences that will bring players together. it could only be a matter of time before mario, zelda, metroid or donkey kong also find themselves on smartphones. 2016-07-21 13:20 Martin Hislop

11 new york subway revamp includes open car design with WiFi + USB ports the metropolitan transit authority and the governor of new york, andrew m. cuomo, have unveiled plans to amplify the city’s subway system. the overhaul seeks to bring forth 1,025 new subway cars that will include vital enhancements to the exteriors and interiors of their regular carriages, such as: wider doors, and up to 750 ‘open car end’ designs that will reduce wait times and increase capacity; as well as the implementation of new standards for subway stations. the re-imagined and improved subway cars have been developed in collaboration with antenna design, and established after reviewing the best practices of a number of major metropolitan areas around the globe. the following key elements have been identified for the new york system: open car end design: the MTA anticipates that out of 1,025 new cars, up to 750 will feature an open car end design that will replace the door between carriages with an accordion-like connector in order to create longer, open spaces. this will allow for greater passenger flow and increase commuter capacity in the process. these types of cars have become an international standard: in london 31 percent of cars will be open car end by the end of the year; in paris the figure climbs to 37 percent; and in toronto to 56 percent. wider doors: the door width of the new cars will be expanded from the current MTA standard of 50 inches to 58 inches. wider subway doors can reduce delays by allowing customers to enter and exit more quickly, and have become an international standard. according to a computer simulation of passenger flow conducted on behalf of the MTA, in crowded scenarios wider doors can reduce a train’s ‘dwell time’ in the station by 32 percent. customer amenities and security: the interiors of the new carriages will host a range of new amenities, including: WiFi, USB chargers, full color digital customer information displays, digital advertisements, illuminated door opening alerts and security cameras to promote passenger safety. exterior features: design elements for the exterior of the new subway cars include a new blue front with large windows, LED headlights, and a blue stripe with gold accents along the sides. along with the announcement of new subway cars, the development also also looks to improve the design standard of subway stations. thirty-one stations from across the city’s five boroughs will undergo extensive renovations (with component and renewal work at more than 170 others) that will build upon a larger campaign that is set to heighten customer experience. the major elements that will be integrated will encompass: - enhanced lighting throughout all stations; - improved signage to make it easier for customers to navigate stations, including digital, real-time updates on on-time performance at subway entrances, before customers even enter the station; and - inclusion of amenities, such as count down clocks, improved cellular connectivity, Wi-Fi and new art. the renovations will also consider the architectural legacy of each space, and remain sensitive to the historical elements of the selected stations. 2016-07-21 13:05 Andrea Chin

12 designboom editorial internship available in milan! are you knowledgeable about art, architecture and design? passionate about writing and digital media? want to make a meaningful contribution to contemporary culture? designboom is currently seeking a candidate to join our team in milan, italy! we’re currently accepting applications for: a team of professional designers and architects ourselves, we work on a daily basis with creatives from around the world. by publishing the latest news and key issues in the fields of architecture, design, technology and art, our mission over the past 17 years has remained the same: unearthing the best projects and curating a selection of the most interesting aspects of contemporary culture. today, designboom is a comprehensive source with over 43,000 articles worth of useful information and insightful interviews, studio visits, documentation of new products, reviews of exhibitions and books, and historical surveys. as an intern at designboom, you will be given responsibilities that are essential to the management and continued success of our publication. during your time with us you will learn a lot, and quickly become experienced in a variety of creative topics. there is never a dull moment at designboom — we are continuously on the go! as an active member of our team, you will have the opportunity to travel and represent designboom at a range of exhibitions and events. and of course living in milan, one of the global epicenters of design! you will be in a city full of established ateliers, surrounded by a strong creative history and contemporary style. we’re looking for someone who: • has a background in architecture or journalism (preferred) • informed and interested in art, architecture and design • experience with graphic design • passionate about contemporary culture • enjoys writing and digital media • has the initiative to perform under deadline pressure • highly organized and efficient • a fluent english speaker we’re looking for a creative and enthusiastic individual who is interested in developing his/her experience by working directly alongside designboom’s editor-in-chief. the young candidate with an architecture or journalism degree/background (preferred) will assist with communication and correspondence, coordinate special cultural projects, arrange travel and events, and collaborate with members of our editorial staff. therefore, you should have strong verbal and written communication skills, posses a great ability to organize and prioritize tasks, and be efficient and perform under deadline pressure. familiarity with social media, graphic design, and a developed knowledge of (photoshop) image and video editing is strongly encouraged. this position is 8 months long in duration, from september 2016 – april 2017. you will work in designboom’s office in milan, italy. you’ll be an essential member of a small international team of smart people focused on publishing the latest news and key issues in the fields of architecture, design, technology and art. you will report directly to designboom’s editor- in-chief. working hours are monday to friday, 9am – 6pm (except in circumstances where we may have to work extra to meet deadlines). you will receive a monthly stipend to help cover the cost of your living and work- travel expenses. as part of your internship, you will experience the life and culture of milan. applications should be submitted via email to: [email protected] with the subject line: ‘designboom EDITORIAL ASSISTANT internship’ • a statement of interest • resume (CV) • links to examples of your writing • links to examples of your social media outlets (if applicable) • a portrait picture due to the amount of applications we receive, only successful candidates will be contacted. * the designboom internship program is based on a tradition of mentorship. we have had many talented interns from all across the world. interns from countries outside of the EU (european union) would need to prepare the necessary paperwork enabling them to stay in italy for 8 months. designboom will provide a letter stating its offer of internship and consult with you on different strategies related to your country of provenience in obtaining a student / holiday working VISA. 2016-07-21 12:45 Nina Azzarello

13 the hills by west 8 open to the public on governors island the hills by west 8 open to the public on new york's governors island the hills by west 8 open to the public on new york’s governors island ten acres of new public space has opened on new york’s governors island. ‘the hills’, a park designed by urban design and landscape architecture firm west 8, includes a variety of landscapes, public art, play areas, and 360 degree views of the new york harbor — including the statue of liberty. the scheme is the culmination of the governors island park and public space masterplan, and phase 1 of the park and public space project. the opening marks a major milestone in the transformation of the island from an abandoned military base into a vibrant public destination. the hills on governors island open summer 2016 video by cobalt productions / courtesy of the trust for governors island rising 25 to 70 feet (8-21 meters) above the island, west 8 has constructed the hills using recycled demolition debris, general fill, and lightweight pumice, stabilized with geotechnical reinforcement and covered with shrubs, trees and grassy lawns. while the project provides important areas of recreation, is also helps protect the island against increasingly dramatic weather patterns and rising sea levels. view of outlook hill, which rises 70 feet above the island all images by timothy schenck opening nearly a year ahead of schedule, the four mounds include: ‘grassy hill’, a 26-foot high gentle slope overlooking the island’s new and historic landscapes as well as the manhattan skyline; ‘slide hill’, which, at a height of 36 feet, is the home of four slides, including the longest in new york city; ‘discovery hill’, which features a site-specific sculpture by british artist rachel whiteread; and ‘outlook hill’, which provides accessible paths and ‘the scramble’, constructed out of reclaimed granite seawall blocks. here, 70 feet above the island, visitors are afforded views of the new york harbor, the statue of liberty, and the skylines of manhattan, brooklyn and jersey city. looking towards the freedom tower and downtown manhattan ‘the hills’ are home to more than 860 new trees and 41,000 new shrubs planted in high-quality topsoil and protected from brackish groundwater by the new topography. the planting of each of the four hills has been designed according to individual micro-climates with varying degrees of slopes, exposure to sun, salty-spray, and prevailing winds. the lawns, plantings and permeable paving also reduce erosion and storm run-off, while allowing for water collection and irrigation. visitors attend the opening of the public park ‘sculpted topography works in concert with winding pathways and trees to create ‘conceal and reveal’ vistas, choreographing the park experience,’ explains west 8‘s design director adriaan geuze. ‘it maximizes the sense of anticipation, pulling a visitor through the park or signaling a place to sit and stay just a bit longer. the topography defines the very character of the area.’ the scheme is home to more than 860 new trees and 41,000 new shrubs ‘over the past 13 years, governors island has been transformed from a relic few new yorkers knew about and even fewer visited into one of the most popular parks in our city – or any city,’ added former new york mayor michael bloomberg. ‘the hills are an extraordinary addition to the island that will inspire new yorkers and visitors for many generations to come – and they are a powerful testament to what can happen when public servants, architects and artists, and generous supporters all work together to bring a common vision to life.’ see designboom’s previous coverage of the project here. the hills have been built using recycled demolition debris view of the scramble on outlook hill from the play lawn at 57 feet long, slide hill includes the longest slide in new york city liberty moment, viewed from the top of slide hill view of the statue of liberty between grassy and outlook hills ‘cabin’ continues the artist’s work in producing sculptures of negative spaces looking towards the statue of liberty at sunset the project is the culmination of the governors island park and public space masterplan phase one of the development 2016-07-21 12:39 Philip Stevens

14 igor sirotov architects has constructed PS1 house into alpine rock face in russia igor sirotov architects has constructed PS1 house into alpine rock face in russia designboom has just received images from architecture practice igor sirotov, of their recently constructed ‘PS1′ house. the impressive photos reveal a private residence which has been built into the rocks in an unknown location in russia. the exterior details individual rooms which are joined through an interlinking staircase which starts at the bottom of the surrounding lake leading up to the highest point. the exterior reveals individual rooms which are joined through an interlinking staircase the overall aim of the design was to work with the existing environment, by creating an interconnected construction that mimicked the exiting landscape. this desire was implemented by igor sirotov architects, through the use of natural materials which blend effortlessly into the rock face. the individual chambers for example are highlighted by a steel frame and stone flooring which match the texture and palette of the surrounding scenery. the rhythm of the interior follows a similar pattern to the exterior, using an interdependent layout which connects different areas through the addition of ladders and large vertical dividers. the aim was to work around the existing environment the chambers are highlighted by a steel frame wood burners are located inside and outside of the building the staircase leading down to the water the pool over looking the lake the rhythm of the interior follows a similar pattern to the exterior 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. 2016-07-21 12:10 Igor Sirotov

15 world's fastest drone can outrun a cheetah while capturing 4k video teenager designs world's fastest drone that can outrun a cheetah (85 mph) while capturing 4K video teenager designs world’s fastest drone that can outrun a cheetah (85 mph) while capturing 4K video teal is an airborne supercomputing platform. the drone, which will be available later in 2016, will ship fully assembled with the onboard flight control ‘follow-me’ feature, which allows the unmanned aircraft to autonomously follow a person. plus it comes with a partially charged battery so you can immediately unbox teal and start having fun. for george matus, jr., a lifelong flight enthusiast, former teenage world champion drone pilot, and CEO of teal, fun is entirely what this project has embodied. at age 18, george rolled out his company’s first product, which happens to be the world’s fastest production drone, capable of flying 85 mph. depending on whether it is powered with the high performance battery or high endurance battery, it powers flight on the aircraft for 10, or 20 minutes. ‘teal,’ as matus put it, ‘is the realization of a dream.’ his focus is on making drones enjoyable and useful to a broad range of customers. the design is built with a wide-angle camera so enthusiasts can capture 4k video and 13-megapixel stills, both with the power of a 4GB NVIDIA TX1 behind them. teal also caters to a wide variety of people, with multiple modes for beginners and ‘hardcore racers’ alike, plus the ability to control teal from a smartphone, tablet or hobby controller. 2016-07-21 11:39 Martin Hislop

16 Caitlyn Jenner Addresses Key Life Moments in H&M Video Hennes & Mauritz has released a short film starring Caitlyn Jenner to mark the release of its For Every Victory sports collection in stores and online this week, just in time for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The nearly six-minute clip, titled “ Caitlyn Jenner : My Life’s Greatest Victories,” features the retired Olympic gold medalist talking about landmark moments including dealing with dyslexia at school, discovering sports, revealing her gender issues and having children. “To me, sports was always this wonderful diversion from myself and about who I was,” Jenner said at one point. She later added: “My kids are by far my greatest accomplishment, better than a medal.” Jenner, who publicly announced her name change from Bruce to Caitlyn in a July 2015 Vanity Fair cover story , also provides the voiceover and appears briefly in a separate short film spotlighting athletes who have dealt with adversity. They include Chelsea Warner, a gymnast with Down syndrome; Namibia Flores, Cuba’s only female boxer; and surfer Mike Coots, who lost his leg during a shark attack. “I truly believe in the power of sports to bring positive change to people’s lives,” Jenner said in a statement released by H&M. “This is why I’m so proud to be part of the For Every Victory campaign, because it reminds me of the strength and bravery of people around the world to be their authentic selves and overcome any obstacles that may come their way.” The Swedish fast-fashion giant in March announced Jenner as the face of its H&M Sport campaign . “For H&M it is important to show diversity and a range of personalities in everything we do. We have picked Caitlyn Jenner, one of the world’s most celebrated athletes, as part of this H&M Sports campaign because we want to illustrate that everything is possible — in sports and in life. It is a collection of performance sportswear made to celebrate individuality and self-belief,” a spokesman said at the time. H&M has put more emphasis on diversity lately. The runway show in Paris for its H&M Studio line on March 2 featured models of different ages, sizes and gender identities including Pat Cleveland, Amber Valletta, Ashley Graham, Andreja Pejić and Hari Nef. 2016-07-21 11:32 Joelle Diderich

17 penda designs 'san shan bridge' for 2022 winter olympics beijing and vienna-based architecture studio penda has proposed their design for the ‘san shan bridge‘ to span across the giu river and provide a gateway between the dense city of beijing to the undulating river valleys in the north. the sequence of arches form a pre- stressed double-helix and is influenced by the olympic symbol. the structure intersects and supports each other on the bottom and the top with the helix designed and engineered by ARUP to be as slender as possible and positioned to offer the best structural performance. the bridge deck is suspended from the structure by high-strength steel- cables, that connect to the arches in a cross-weaving way the construction is scheduled to coincide with the olympic winter games in 2022, the english translation of penda’s bridge is 3 mountains (三⼭山) and describes the form of the bridge seen from the side with its 3 arches connecting to its undulating backdrop. the bridge forms a dynamic sculpture to a more mountainous scenery on the way to zhangjiakou, where all major outdoor competitions at the beijing olympics will be taking place. at the same time, the area next to the bridge construction will evolve into a recreational district for the citizens and essentially, form a public link for a wider beijing expansion masterplan and integrate the new territories into capital’s urban fabric. each arch is composed of ve steel tubes connected by batten plates based on its dual helix structure, the bridge utilises 5 times less steel than a conventional box girder bridge the construction is scheduled to coincide with the olympic winter games in 2022 the main structure of the bridge is conceived as a series of rings, which connect at their highest and lowest points the bridge connects the city center of beijing with zhangjiakou 2016-07-21 10:30 Natasha Kwok

18 Yoshio Kubo Spring 2017 Show Yoshio Kubo , a Japanese designer known for his high- energy, theatrical runway shows and avant-garde street wear, showed a decidedly more toned-down collection for spring. The designer staged his show, held a full three months before Tokyo Fashion Week , at the city’s rugby stadium. Aside from a live percussionist who had to compete with the chants from fans at the neighboring baseball stadium, the event seemed a bare-bones production with uncharacteristically simple styling. Kubo sent out sporty shorts, tank tops, sweatshirts and updated suits, many of which featured metallic trim. Suit jackets featured gold tweed detailing or collarless necklines, while pants were slim fitting and cropped. Prints were scarce, but included an image of crisscrossing black electrical wires on a white or neon orange background. Hawks were another common motif, showing up embroidered onto tapered jeans, appliquéd on satin bomber jackets, and printed on blousons. “I think I had been doing well [at designing clothes] with a lot of prints and that were flashy, but in order to put more of myself out there I started thinking maybe I should make a different kind of clothes,” Kubo said. “So maybe people will think this collection is more simple, but I was thinking from the beginning about [incorporating] interesting details and I started from that concept.” While the collection was tame and lacked some of the excitement of his past shows, his signature eye for detail and use of high quality tech fabrics was still on display. One standout piece was a riff on a sporty, hooded warm-up coat, crafted from an iridescent lime green fabric. There was also an impressive flourish to the finale, when fireworks from the baseball game next door erupted as the models made their final pass down the runway. 2016-07-21 09:29 Kelly Wetherille

19 British Fashion Council Releases Provisional Schedule More Articles By MM6 Maison Margiela is set to stage a presentation in London, after having previously shown in New York. The label returns to London this season having shown its spring 2016 line last September. The latest MM6 presentation — for resort 2017 — took place in New York. The spring 2017 presentation is set to take place on Sept. 18. Burberry , which will be showing both men’s and women’s, has taken a new slot on the schedule. Its show will move from its usual 1:00 p.m. slot to 7:30 p.m on Sept. 19. Versus Versace has returned and will stage a runway show during London Fashion Week on Sept. 17. The Italian label last showcased its spring 2016 range in London last September. Meanwhile, Roberts Wood, Malone Souliers and Piers Atkinson stage presentations for the first time, while Sharon Wauchob, Huishan Zhang, Molly Goddard and Teatum Jones will present their ranges on the runway. 2016-07-21 08:51 Lorelei Marfil

20 naruse inokuma transforms underground passageway into 'world of illusion' in tokyo naruse inokuma transforms underground passageway into 'world of illusion' in tokyo naruse inokuma transforms underground passageway into ‘world of illusion’ in tokyo the underground interior circulation space in the sogo & seibu department store in tokyo has been transformed by naruse inokuma architects into a ‘world of illusion’. mirrors on the ceiling seemingly doubles the height and enriches the narrow passageway all images © kenta hasegawa prior to the renovation, the buffer space between shops was lacking vitality. therefore the tokyo-based studio decided to install a combination of lighting and mirrors to create a dramatic atmosphere. the mirrors are placed in strategic locations to reflect the surrounding stores and influence a sense of spaciously and vivacity in the narrow underground passage. each mirror has been placed in a large wooden frame to dynamically change the mood in each area, meanwhile the subtle spotlighting illuminates and guides shoppers through the space. the inner sections of the display cases have also been lined with mirrors to generate an expanse of unlimited space the reflective surfaces along the winding passage unfold an expanding space of illusions warm spotlights along the floor invite shoppers into the space 2016-07-21 08:45 Natasha Kwok

21 Is Alber Elbaz Joining Uniqlo? HONG KONG — Could Alber Elbaz – master of the hand-draped, no-seam cocktail dress – be considering a dalliance with fast fashion? According to sources, Lanvin ’s former creative director has held discussions with Japan’s Fast Retailing Ltd., parent of the Uniqlo brand. It is understood talks have centered on some form of collaboration. The likelihood of a deal could not immediately be learned. A Fast Retailing spokesman declined to comment. Elbaz also declined to comment. In recent years, Uniqlo has done collaborations with designers Christophe Lemaire and Jil Sander , and French fashion personalities Ines de la Fressange and Carine Roitfeld . Elbaz, ousted from Lanvin last October after a stellar 14-year tenure , has done a string of speaking engagements, but has yet to indicate his future career intentions. It is understood he is still embroiled in a legal battle with Lanvin over his ownership stake in the French company, held indirectly via an entity controlled by Lanvin majority owner Shaw-Lan Wang. Once source said the parties – which have already sparred in court – have agreed to an arbitration procedure to determine the value of Elbaz’s stake. While Elbaz never elaborated on his departure, sources said the rupture came following disagreements between the charismatic Israeli designer and company principals: Wang and chief executive officer Michèle Huiban. Elbaz has since been replaced at Lanvin by Bouchra Jarrar , who is to present her first collection on the runway at the end of September. Her pre- spring collection was only showed to retailers. 2016-07-21 08:27 WWD Staff

22 Suhanya Raffel Appointed Executive Director of Hong Kong’s M+ Museum The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) in Hong Kong has announced the appointment of Suhanya Raffel to the position of executive director of its ambitious museum project, M+. Raffel will replace Lars Nittve, whose notice of resignation from the post in October 2015 rattled the Asian art world. Nittve, who had been at the helm of the 47-strong team overseeing the construction and launch of M+ since 2011, stepped down in January 2016, when his contract ended. Related: Lars Nittve Steps Down as Director of Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Raffel is currently deputy director and director of collections of the Art Gallery in New South Wales, Australia, although she’s familiar with the M+ project, as she joined the team as a technical expert in 2014. Raffel is a prominent museum specialist with senior management experience in collection, research, and programming as well as a stellar reputation for her scholarship on contemporary Asian art. “Ms Raffel is an expert in Asian contemporary art, and has over 30 years of professional experience in museum management. She brings with her a wealth of museum management experience in the areas of curatorship, exhibitions and collection development,” Carrie Lam, chairman of the board of the WKCDA, said in a statement. “Her capable leadership, professionalism and vision inspire our confidence in the successful opening of a world-class M+ Museum in just three years’ time,” she added. The appointment of Raffel is hopefully the right move for M+, an institution that has struggled to keep its head above water since its inception in 2011. Related: Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Won’t Open Before 2019 Last year construction delays set back the public opening of the museum until 2019 and the resignation of her predecessor was only one in a slew of resignations from the institution’s core team. This past June, M+ associate curator Yung Ma stepped down to take a position at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The chief executive of the WKCDA, Michael Lynch, left in February 2015, shortly followed by senior curator Tobias Berger, who then took on the role of head of art at the Central Police Station art complex, also in Hong Kong. Related: Curator Yung Ma Joins Centre Pompidou in New Partnership with K11 Foundation Raffel’s will take up the post at the beginning of November, and will be responsible for management and planning, development of curation and collections, as well as fundraising for M+. “We are delighted to have Ms Raffel to join us as Executive Director for M+, a highly demanding position,” Victor Lo, chairman of the M+ board, said in a statement. “From now until the opening of M+ Museum and beyond, Ms Raffel has the exciting and daunting task to deliver on the promise of M+, to make it Hong Kong’s world-class museum for visual culture and of course to meet and surpass public expectations.” 2016-07-21 07:03 Naomi Rea

23 A Video Carries Hot New Yorkers to Cool Finland THE DAILY PIC (#1596): What could be better, on a hot summer’s day in midtown Manhattan, than to be transported to a cool autumn day in the woods in Finland. That’s what happens when you take in the video called “Horizontal,” by the wonderful Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila, that is now on display in a group show called “ Another North: Landscape Reimagined ” at Scandinavia House in New York. The piece is nothing more than a few minutes of unmanipulated footage of a giant spruce tree, as it blows in the wind on a clear day. It’s not just that the subject of the piece is autumnal and outdoorsy, although that certainly accounts for part of its effect. I think the sense of being carried away from New York, today, also depends on the particular way the work was shot. Rather than using one camera with a hugely wide-angle lens, Ahtila has assembled six different shots of the tree, taken from a scissors lift that moved to six different positions up its trunk. The psychologist Michael Kubovy has argued that when the brain takes in a realistic image, whether photographic or drawn with perspective, we get a strong (if unconscious) sense of being transported to the spot its subject was originally seen from. In the case of Leonardo’s Last Supper , as Kubovy argues, the perspective carries us high up into the middle of the room on whose wall it sits, leaving us with an almost physical sense of lofty transcendence. With Ahtila and her multiple viewpoints onto the spruce, we seem to float, unanchored, in the air in front of it, passing up and down its trunk like the wind that rustles its branches. By showing it horizontally, she further frees us from gravity’s normal pull. For a full survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive . 2016-07-21 07:00 Blake Gopnik

24 Fledermaus at Opera Holland Park Has Star Soprano, Struggles With Magic: Review Related Artists Mozart The conducting sparkles like a fountain of diamonds. There’s a superstar performance by young soprano Jennifer France as a naughty chambermaid. The score has hit tune after hit tune. So why doesn’t “Die Fledermaus” at Opera Holland Park hit the funny bone with the necessary thwack? The answer lies in the genre of operetta itself. The ingredients for any great production are surprise, slickness and silliness. It should all look like it happens spontaneously and effortlessly too: the plot of this particular operetta is about a man who puts his friend in a series of impossibly silly situations as revenge for a prank. And, of course, it should sound divine. Not much to ask, then. The magic of “Fledermaus” is so elusive that there’s no shame in the fact that this production doesn’t quite manage to conjure it up. It’s extremely rare to see a staging which has, to be honest. So it’s enough to let the individual highlights make their mark. These include John Rigby’s superb conducting, which is both rigorously accurate and full of Viennese fizz, and Jennifer France’s performance as Adele. When this flighty chambermaid (in disguise) wants to punish her master for insulting her, she uses her knee to deliver a blow to a particularly soft part of his anatomy, while delivering perfect spit-spot coloratura. It’s a beguiling mixture of charm and brutality, and utterly hilarious. Samantha Price makes a lively, luscious-sounding Prince Orlofsky too. The rest of the cast don’t quite reach the same heights, and some of the dialogue scenes (the production is performed in English) tend to drag. The set, by Romanian designer takis, creates a pleasant world of Art Deco glamour, but the set-changes take far too long. Martin Lloyd-Evans’s production rattles along, pressing some good comic buttons on the way and missing others. As an example of the latter, he ignores a theater law called “the rule of three” which states that a slapstick gag might get funnier if repeated three times, but will always crash and burn on the fourth. When a bungling Italian lover tries to enter his beloved’s bedroom window but falls off his ladder, it’s amusing. It’s even funnier the third time. The fourth time? Alas, it only proves the validity of the law. Never mind. We’ll continue to wait for the ideal production. In the meantime it’s still a great musical treat to enjoy the evergreen charms of this fabulous score. 2016-07-21 06:23 Warwick Thompson

25 ekparichay designs clapton, a minimal teakwood sound system ‘clapton’ is a handmade, burma teakwood speaker developed by indian studio ekparichay. high quality materials house hi-fidelity internals, with connection provided via bluetooth. ‘clapton’ is constructed using conventional woodworking techniques, resulting in a compact, rustic feeling sound system for the home. 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. 2016-07-21 06:15 www.designboom

26 Ragnar Kjartansson Takes to Barbican Stage With Bands The National and Múm Related Events Ragnar Kjartansson Venues Barbican Art Gallery Artists Ragnar Kjartansson To coincide with his retrospective at the Barbican , Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson presented a musical evening at the space’s theater on July 19 alongside members (and ex-members) of cult bands including The National and Múm. It was difficult to know what to expect from “An Evening with the Bel-Air Glamour Records Gang” — named after a record label founded by Kjartansson to release musical materials associated with his performance art. All of the musical pieces in the exhibition deal with lengthy durations, and many incorporate repetition. For instance, “A Lot of Sorrow” involved The National playing their song “Sorrow” for six hours straight, and in “God,” Kjartansson himself sings the phrase “sorrow overcomes happiness ” as a 1950s nightclub crooner for an hour. Would the gig follow the same structure, becoming an Erik Satie-like exercise in the lengthy repetition of minor motifs? The answer was no, although the gig did end up following the pattern of long duration. What was billed as a concert of slightly over 90 minutes ended up being three hours of drum-based stand up comedy, Icelandic hip hop poetry, and Ragnar Kjartansson smoking a giant cigar while singing a Robert Schumann song that he described as “a power ballad from the 19th century.” The setting was familiar to anyone who had visited the Barbican exhibition, with the plush pink curtain that features in their installation for “God” replicated here in gold lamé. This curtain set the tone for the evening: Kjartansson presented the acts riffing off both his persona from that performance, and the sort of strange European musical variety shows that featured such curtains in the 1950s to 1970s. At one point, he called it “a bit Eurovision,” and that is exactly what it was — albeit a parallel world Eurovision focused on classical music, poetry, and avant-garde vocal and cello performances. Although naffness was built into the deliberately stilted presentation style, complete with microphone twirls and pointing at the audience, it did not get in the way of the various performances. A highlight among these was anything featuring Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, previously of Icelandic electronic band Múm. With astounding vocals pitched somewhere between Joanna Newsom and actress Shirley Henderson, she was an odd beguiling presence both singing alone and in the finale with her twin sister Gyða and fellow twins Bryce and Aaron Dessner of The National, together playing music as a kind of alt-ABBA. In totality, it was an evening of delights that both complemented the Barbican exhibition and highlighted the wit of Kjartansson as an artistic and musical presence. If Eurovision ever does come to Iceland, let him host. 2016-07-21 05:23 Samuel Spencer

27 Sujata Tibrewala’s Creation ‘Oppression’ at Cupertino, California Indian origin artist Sujata Tibrewala is exhibiting paintings at her Cupertino, California studio. The artist marks the American Independence Day by dedicating the entire July month to the idea of freedom. The month of July, according to Sujata, is not only a joyous time to reflect on the independence people enjoy but also an apt time to encourage every fellow humans to respect and give others freedom. Her acrylic on canvas work entitled ‘Oppression’, that forms the part of the exhibition, takes a magnified look at the notion of supremacy that gives rise to the idea that a person can rule over another. She talks about the vacuous sense of hierarchy that enables the powerful to subjugate the powerless. Her paintings through imagery and symbolism seem to point out that there is no such thing as power belonging to any one person. The power and the will to succeed is something that should belong to everyone. In her painting she shows that how a false ladder of supremacy seems to govern social structures. The powerful tries to wield power against the powerless; the man tries to boss over a woman, a woman tries to control another woman – the vicious cycle continues. Talking about her creations Sujata says, “For those who were born with this privilege it should be a matter of great gratitude. Because those who have struggled to gain that much deserved independence know the cost it comes at.” Sujata’s works showcased at the exhibit seem to beautifully capture what free will means to human spirit. She feels suppression is the worst form of treatment that can be meted out to anyone. If one is not free, it’s not just the spirit but also the soul that dies within. She understands that independence and sovereignty are big terms but she also wants to underline that the real freedom begins with small things. Independence is a theme that has always had a recurring appearance in artist Sujata’s work. Whether it is the independence to express, to emote or to conduct oneself, the artist has always advocated that without the freedom to choose, human existence can be banal. Sujata, a self-taught artist come engineer remarkably embodies the indomitable spirit of human existence through her works. Her works center around the theme of eco-feminism. She finds her works as a perfect metaphor to understand the world we are living in. She says just as the different colours on her canvas speak the universal language of love, longing, pain and suffering similarly every human being regardless of caste, creed and religion represents the same aspirations and emotions. She has exhibited her artworks in some of the most reputed venues around the globe such as University of Illinois, Chicago, Raw San Jose, Parallax Art Fair London, the Regional Commission of Arts St Louis, Life Force Arts Chicago, Mindworks Gallery Chesterfield, St. Louis Artists' Guild, Chesterfield Arts, Art World Association, Women's Caucus for the Arts, MySLART and Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi. 2016-07-21 05:17 Bibhu Pattnaik

28 7 Shows Not to Miss at Les Recontres d’Arles 2016 The annual Les Recontres d’Arles festival is best known for exhibiting previously unpublished photographers who oftentimes get discovered thanks to exposure through these exhibitions. The love child of photographer Lucien Clergue , author Michel Tournier, and historian Jean- Maurice Rouquette, the festival was founded in 1970 and has quickly gained international reputation, bringing in 93,000 visitors last year. Related: artnet Asks: Photographer, Filmmaker, and Author Lucien Clergue Spaces used at Les Recontres d’Arles are often fabricated specifically for the exhibitions on view, though sometimes the festival utilizes the exceptional setting of 19th century chapels and 12th century industrial buildings, which would not generally be accessible to the public. In an age of ever-changing digital and modification technology, Les Recontres d’Arles constantly finds innovative ways of delivering the photographic medium to a contemporary audience. We take a look at some of the most interesting shows and freshest photographic talents exhibiting at this year’s edition of the festival. Related: Les Recontres d’Arles Appoints a New Director 1. Sincerely Queer: Sébastien Lifshitz Collection French screenwriter and director Sébastien Lifshitz has gathered a series of amateur photographs depicting gender experimentation from the 19th century up to the 1970s. In an age where cross dressing and gender fluidity have become more openly visible, it is important to admire the brave people who shaped the rocky history of this community and made it what is it is today. During the times when individuals and communities were not able to express themselves in public, they did so privately in front of the camera, as captured in Lifshitz’s sincere collection of photographs. 2. Basma Alsharif This exhibition by multimedia artist Basma Alsharif highlights the inherent connections between the nomadic origins to her artworks. Born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, Alsharif grew up between France, the United States, and the Gaza strip. The sense of being from everywhere and nowhere is relayed in her photographs, which create environments that convey a feeling of being comfortable and foreign at the same time. Alsharif’s use of material is also sporadic as she juggles everything from photography, film, and video, to sound, language, and performance. 3. Marie Angeletti Young photographer, film maker, and installation artist Marie Angeletti understands the relationship between contemporary image circulation and individual narrative. Her work often captures a surface image, behind which lays a story that is not immediately apparent. Angeletti recognizes the rapidity of digital image consumption, and attempts to slow this process down by only allowing her audience a visual of the surface of the narrative— imitating the act of looking at the cover of a book or a still from a film. 4. Tear My Bra: Drama and Fantasy in Nollywood Movies and Their Influence on Cultural and Visual Storytelling This unusual exhibition serves as a tribute to Nollywood—a sobriquet for the Nigerian commercial film industry—which produces thousands of films and circulates billions of dollars each year. With its low budgets, Nollywood films are marked by poor aesthetics, sham special effects, and bizarre twists on classic Western plotlines. While Western movies show an ever-increasing production value with rising budgets and improved technology, the continued demand for films such as those produced in Nollywood exemplifies the interest in the globalization of aesthetics, in particular those of West Africa. The title “Tear My Bra” refers to the over-dramatic nature of Nollywood titles and scenarios, which contribute to the aesthetics of the artworks included in this exhibition. 5. Fabulous Failures: The Art of Embracing Serendipity and Mistakes Dutch artist, designer, and curator Erik Kessel has organized an exhibition that breaks up the perfection-obsessed contemporary visual landscape by eshowing art that celebrates the flawed. From filters to editing software, today’s technology assures a way to polish images until they look “just right.” In this exhibition, Kessel gathers a collection of works that challenge the concept of the flawless image, offering the possibility of beauty in imperfection, mistakes, and even in failure. Related: 5 Fabulous Art Destinations to Visit on the Côte d’Azur this Summer 6. Sarah Waiswa: Stranger in a Familiar Land Kenya-based documentary and portrait photographer Sarah Waiswa is interested in challenging the African narrative by exploring the new African identity. In this particular series titled “Stranger in a Familiar Land,” Waiswa photographs an albino African woman in order to shed light on the persecution of albinos in Sub-Saharan African. People often fear what they do not understand, and this phenomenon stands as a perfect example— albino Africans are often hunted for their body parts, which are thought to possess magical powers. This series depicts the woman in a dream-like state as a response to her forced alienation. The backdrop for the shoot is the Kibera slums, which create a double narrative; suggesting not only the subject’s sense of non- belonging, but also the artist’s uneasy feeling towards the outside world. 7. PJ Harvey & Seamus Murphy: The Hollow of the Hand This exhibition is the result of a collaboration between British singer, author, and composer PJ Harvey and Irish photographer Seamus Murphy. From 2011 to 2014, the duo traveled through the very diverse locales of Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington, D. C. During these travels, Murphy collected images, and PJ Harvey collected words for later use in poems and song. Out of these, a publication named “The Hollow of the Hand” was born, bearing the contrasting visions of destruction and conflict with those of power and fractured societies. Related: Rock Star PJ Harvey Jumps on the Art Bandwagon This exhibition of poems, photos, and films goes beyond pure reporting—it serves as an artistic gesture of communicating realities to an audience that has not experienced it. “ Les Recontres d’Arles ” will have exhibitions on view around the city of Arles, France until September 25, 2016. 2016-07-21 04:15 Carol Civre

29 robot3 transforms ramen bar into metallic BBQ bar hut in beijing architecture in china: located in beijing, ‘lucky bar’ was originally a ramen shop that has been adapted into a BBQ bar by robot3. with a total area of only 52 square- meters, excluding the kitchen, the project features narrow spaces, a limited budget and a poor location. given this, the architecture team decided to propose to switch the perspective, generating a contemporary and shiny space with an ultra low price, referencing the wormhole theory and using cheap materials. each ring road of beijing is a rough division between social classes. the invisible walls made up of power and wealth divide the city into pieces of fixed territories, some of which are inaccessible to the majority of its inhabitants. each area has a stable hierarchical structure and complicated codes that design aims to overcome and crack. with ‘lucky bar’, robot3 proposes a wormhole, or a multi dimensional tunnel connecting two distant spaces. the selection of a few uncommon and cheap materials like galvanized iron plates, PVC curtains and paint results in a metallic hut that acts as a psychological switch and with a metaphorical meaning of ‘soft metal is the power to guard out nature’. an informal dining position has been chosen, similar to the squatting one used in picnics. this generates a relaxing and intimate atmosphere that permits the diners to see the usually-neglected low dimension of the world. project name: metal hut – lucky bar design company: robot 3 studio (www.robot3.com) designers: fei pan, zhi wang location: kexing west road, no. 43, changping district, beijing, china type: restaurant area: 76 sqm design time: 2016.03-2016.04 completion time: 2016.05 contractor: beijing jingchuanjiamei decoration co., ltd photographer: xi-xun deng 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. 2016-07-21 04:05 Sunshine Pr

30 Shinola Previews First Women’s Luxury Watch and Jewelry Collections Shinola is determined to grow its women’s business by getting glitzier — now experimenting with diamonds and introducing its first evening luxury collection for women. The Gomelsky collection, which will be previewed today, includes three design families and a total of 31 styles — priced from $700 to $3,750. The entire lot is slated to hit stores in November. With the release of the new women’s watch range also comes Pamela Love’s first jewelry designs for the Detroit-based brand. To accommodate the influx of feminine designs to its stores, Shinola has created new merchandising and packaging motifs for its women’s pieces — to sit side- by-side with its original men’s offerings. “From the beginning, women’s has been a huge part of the brand. It felt like this has always been a very classic women’s brand, even though we started out in men’s. Women have always been part of the goal of how we will grow,” creative director Daniel Caudill told WWD. The brand launched its first women’s design — the Byrdie — in 2013. But it has not approached its women’s designs as a holistic offering until now. For this new assortment, “We are not just taking men’s designs and tailoring them for women. The watches are very specific feminine watches, in conjunction with fine jewelry and our leather goods. From store interiors and across the board, we want to do everything — and do it the right way. This was the right time in our growth [to introduce more women’s styles],” Caudill said. The new women’s collection is more diminutive than Shinola’s prior designs — with delicate rectangular and circular faces, intended to evoke the art of old-world evening watches. Many of the watch faces are constructed of semiprecious stones, including tiger eye, lapis, malachite and mother-of-pearl. Straps come fabricated in bracelet or stamped leather form. The aim is to boost sales of women’s watches up to the same level as men’s at the company. Presently men’s accounts for 60 percent of the brand’s watch business. “It’s a little hard [to measure] because a lot of women purchase men’s watches,” Caudill said of a gender breakdown. Gold tone watches are plated in Asia, and are assembled at Shinola’s factory in Detroit. The brand will continue to refine its assembled in the U. S. messaging in light of June’s Federal Trade Commission investigation that dictated the label be more explicit when describing its manufacturing process. For its first foray into fine women’s jewelry, Shinola creative partner Pamela Love was inspired by many of the design hallmarks of the brand’s watches. She has created a range of 55 sleek styles, including necklaces, lockets, earrings, bangles and rings, that look to the coined edge of Shinola dials and the buckles of its watch straps for design features. The jewelry is priced from $120 to $8,000, and is crafted of sterling silver, 14-karat gold, opals, tiger eye, onyx, mother-of-pearl and diamonds that the brand said are conflict free and sourced in India. All the jewelry is designed in New York and manufactured in Los Angeles. The Shinola collection is notably different from Love’s own Gothic, occult- leaning label. The clean designs recall classic mid-century American jewelry, with simple shapes, slim braided chains and a polished finish. “I started my own company when I was 22 or something insane, so I’m growing up and maturing and skewing a little more classic,” Love said. “I’m really happy with the work we’ve done. Shinola is looking for really nice pieces that play with the idea of classic sophistication and that echo memories of a cross ring or a father’s ID bracelet. I really think of these pieces as being passed down and not being a seasonal, trend-based collection. I think the customer is one who pays attention to where things are made and how they are made, and not purchasing throwaway fashion.” Shinola said Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom have signed on as third-party stockists for the jewelry and Gomelsky watches. Each piece will be available for personalization with Shinola now offering machine engraving services, to be conducted in its Detroit headquarters. For visual continuity, Shinola has created new merchandising, packaging and type font concepts for the women’s offerings. New stores, and some existing ones, have been retrofitted with women’s specific zones — boasting lighter fixtures, cream wall color and soft leather furniture. The concept will continue to expand across Shinola retail units — stocking Love’s jewelry and the new watch designs, as well as leather goods designed by Richard Lambertson and John Truex. “Product is always the hero, but it’s not just about the product — it’s also about the environment,” Caudill said. “There is a feminine side and we are trying to portray that.” A scratchy, more delicate looking type font will grace new boxes. “The new packaging for women is cream, linen and pale gray, where the men’s is wood with a lot of black. They sit really beautifully together, but they also are very different looking,” he said. Caudill said Shinola has discussed opening separate men’s and women’s units but has no present plans to do so. 2016-07-21 04:01 Misty White

31 Birds of a Feather: Saunders, Lumley Talk Fashion and ‘AbFab’ film More Articles By Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley have already turned the red carpet gold at the world premiere of “ Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie ” last month, and now they’re ready to work some more of their wacky magic in the U. S., when the film — which has received great reviews here — is released on Friday. WWD sat down with Saunders, who plays public-relations queen Edina Monsoon, and Lumley, who reprises her role as the hard-living magazine editor Patsy Stone, to talk about fashion and how it’s changed since the TV show first screened in the early Nineties. RELATED STORY: Dressing ‘ Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie ’ >> 2016-07-21 04:01 Lorelei Marfil

32 Art Collection of Legendary Dealer Leslie Waddington to Be Auctioned at Christie’s London The collection of the legendary art dealer Leslie Waddington, who passed away last November at the age of 81, will be offered for sale as a single-owner auction at Christie’s London during Frieze Week in October 2016. Related: British Art World Mourns the Death of Legendary Dealer Leslie Waddington One of the most influential art dealers of modern times in the UK, Waddington left a huge mark in the history of patronage and collecting, which is evident in the richness of his collection. With his impressive expertise he shaped the London art scene, long before the art world’s rise in popularity. The collection features key 20th century artists, such as Josef Albers , Alexander Calder , Milton Avery , Agnes Martin , Francis Picabia , and Jean Dubuffet , all of which will be included in the sale. The centerpiece of the sale is a textured canvas by Jean Dubuffet, produced during his stay in the south of France, titled Visiteur au chapeau bleu avril 1955 (1955), which has a presale estimate of £2,000,000- 3,000,000 ($2,636,023-3,954,034). Holding the auction during Frieze Week seems appropriate, as Waddington was one of the earliest supporters of the Frieze fair. The auction will serve as one of the highlights of Christie’s programme during the busy week—London’s most important one in the art calendar—featuring work by 23 artists from Waddington’s collection. Related: See What Top Dealers are Bringing to Frieze London 2015 Top lots for the auction include Francis Picabia’s painting Lampe (1923), which has a presale estimate of £800,000-1,500,000 ($1,055,294- 1,978,063), Agnes Martin’s Praise (1988), estimated between £2,000,000-3,000,000 ($2,636,023-3,954,034), and Alexander Calder’s rare wall mounted mobile Le serpent rouge (1958), which has a similar estimate as Martin’s piece. Related: Christie’s London’s Solid British Art Sale Tallies $133 Million, Led by $33 Million Henry Moore ”It is a privilege to be offering works from the private collection of Leslie Waddington here at Christie’s in October. The art dealer who pioneered contemporary art in London, long before the proliferation of galleries and art institutions in the city, Leslie introduced the art world to artists from Jean Dubuffet to Patrick Caulfield, bringing the British and European aesthetic to America for the first time, and American Abstract Expressionism to London,” Jussi Pylkkänen, global president of Christie’s said in a statement. “Leslie was generous with his advice to the younger generation and many people in the London art world, including myself, benefited from his wisdom over the years,” Pylkkänen added. The auction will take place on October 4, 2016 at Christie’s London, and will be available for preview at Christie’s King Street from September 23- October 4, 2016. 2016-07-21 04:00 Carol Civre

33 New Exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute Explores the Relationship Between Visual Art and Prosthetics It’s an age-old practice: throughout history human beings have sought to extend and enhance their bodies. From today, a major exhibition in Leed’s Henry Moore Institute will explore the relationship between visual art and prosthetics. “The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics,” curated by Lisa Le Feuvre, traces the artistic and surgical evolution of artificial body parts, gathering over 70 artworks, objects and images exploring the history of prostheses in the realms of sculpture and medical science, as well as exploring artists’ responses to the various conundrums they pose. Related: Why Do Collectors Still Love the Visceral Sculpture of Henry Moore? Prosthetics technology took off in earnest in the aftermath of the First World War, as artificial limbs needed to be developed for those wounded in war. After 1914, according to the Henry Moore Institute , over 41,000 veterans in the UK had lost a limb, and in Germany one in every 16 citizens would have sustained a major injury. Prostheses were initially uncomfortable and impractical, but surgeons worked with artists to respond to this and other problems. Sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd, for example, worked directly with surgeons to craft facial masks for soldiers injured in the trenches. As a result, prosthetic technology gradually improved with some present day versions, such as those used by para-athletes, actually exceeding natural human capability. In contrast, the artist Jacob Epstein visits the horror of a possible future where man and machine are no longer distinct. The augmented body has been represented in culture as a both a symbol for the growing possibilities of the human race as well as a potentially nefarious threat to the future of humankind. Related: See the Six Most Haunting Humanoids in Art Alongside examples of prostheses from the collections of the Freud Museum, Hunterian Museum, Imperial War Museum (all three in London), and Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds, the exhibition also features works by Matthew Barney, Yael Bartana, Louise Bourgeois , and Rebecca Horn. A new sculpture by Rebecca Warren—co-commissioned with 14–18 NOW , the UK-based arts program for the First World War centenary—stands outside the Institute. The heavy, raw bronze sculpture is made up mainly of muscled legs and is set on a rudimentary bronze wheeled platform, as if taking a giant stride. “ The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics ” is on view at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, from July 21 – October 23, 2016. 2016-07-21 04:00 Naomi Rea

34 Student Artist Wants to Make Bag with Alexander McQueen’s Skin Tina Gorjanc, who is finishing a master’s in material futures at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, has been garnering attention for her quest to create an accessory line made with the late designer Alexander McQueen’s skin. In typical fashion, the Guardian ‘s Jonathan Jones did a hot take for his fans, stating in his latest column: “The idea of making art with human bodies disturbs me…” Gorjanc applied to patent the fashion designer’s genetic information as source material for the production of human leather. For the procedure, the arts student proposes using a sample of the fashion designer’s hair to manufacture his skin through stem cells. At face value, the project, aptly called “ Pure Human ,” seems like a stunt similar to Wim Delvoye’s work tattooing pigs with designer labels, or one similar to Orlan’s body modifications. Related: French Artist Orlan Takes $31.7 Million Lawsuit Against Lady Gaga to New York But had Jones paid closer attention, he’d find that Gorjanc’s proposal operates at the heart of a much larger issue. “If a student like me was able to patent a material extracted from Alexander McQueen’s biological information, and there was no legislation to stop me, we can only imagine what big corporations with bigger funding are going to be capable of doing in the future,” Gorjanc said in her interview with the New York Times . In a statement on the artist’s website , the “Pure Human” project “aims to address shortcomings concerning the protection of biological information and move the debate forward using current legal structure.” Put simply, Gorjanc wants to shine a light on how genetic information can be patented now, and in the future. Related: Wim Delvoye Wants to Move His Entire Production to Iran “I know many people have been made uncomfortable by the work I’ve been doing, calling it Frankenfashion,” Ms. Gorjanc admitted to the Times , “but I think I am prompting the right sort of questions for this industry in the 21st century.” 2016-07-21 03:01 Rain Embuscado

35 Homage to Chen Wen Hsi at Chan Hampe Galleries Singapore Related Venues Chan Hampe Galleries "Monkey Business," a group exhibition featuring artworks by Justin Loke and Samuel Chen, will be showcased at Singapore's Chan Hampe Galleries from July 28 through August 14. The exhibition pays homage to renowned Singaporean artist Chen Wen Hsi’s "Gibbon series," in which human-like gibbons engage in anthropomorphic activities such as gambling, drinking, and fighting. Loke and Chen prescribe to the view that the question of authenticity regarding Chen’s works is moot. The exhibition displays playful gibbons which are not only a copy of Chen’s style, but a copy of the counterfeiters who have produced the fakes available in market. The irony of the project lies in copying the original, along with the double negative act of copying the copy. 2016-07-21 02:18 Ekta Marwaha

36 Filipino Artists Present ‘WASAK! Reloaded’ at ARNDT Fine Art Related Venues ARNDT Singapore "WASAK! Reloaded" will be showcased at ARNDT Fine Art in Singapore from August 28 through October 1. Exploring the Filipino contemporary art landscape, the exhibition will feature work by 17 artists, and will be accompanied by a publication that aims to shed light on the contemporary art being produced in the Philippines. The show is a continuation of a group exhibition which was presented in Berlin in 2015, and will travel to London in 2017. The artists have used this as a platform to express the social and political upheaval of the Philippines’ recent history. Most of them have grappled with natural disasters like earthquakes and floods, political unrest, corruption and briberies, longstanding bouts of poverty, and urban overpopulation. Their ́work is inspired by their own localities, even as they seek their place on a global platform. The opening reception will be held on August 27 from 12pm to 5pm. 2016-07-21 02:16 Ekta Marwaha

37 designers hide a lush landscaped oasis within a courtyard in montpellier at the 2016 festival des architectures vives — an annual program reflecting on architecture and its development within the urban context — a team from france has created a natural oasis in the heart of montpellier. as part of the event, visitors are invited to discover contemporary works in unique sites across the city, where courtyards of private hotels, typically restricted to the public, open their doors to host media art installations and exhibitions. for its contribution to the festival des architectures vives, belle ville atelier d’architecture has realized ‘thin green’ — a multi-sensory and immersive experience encapsulated within a hidden courtyard. the creative team, comprised of ilan bitoun, vincent imfeld, alexandre ferron, anthony le page and lucile nicosia, offers a private and lush retreat from the bustling city that surrounds it though an abundant expanse of greenery and vegetation. while the installation seeks to allow visitors to rediscover the landscape — even within a city — ‘thin green’ simultaneously allows them to experience a natural cooling system, made possible by the combination of plants and a water-based misting system. water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere by evaporation from the soil and transpiration from plants, allowing the temperature within the courtyard to organically cool down. 2016-07-21 02:15 Nina Azzarello

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