“NSA doesn’t have much in the way of design sense,” writes Max Read of the spy agency’s Prism logo. Turns out the mark’s featured photo was taken by British TV presenter Adam Hart-Davis, who offered a free, lo-res version of it at his website.

The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has named its new director: taking the position is Caroline Baumann, who has worked at the museum since 2001 and has served as acting director since the death of former director Bill Moggridge last year.

The Smithsonian has officially scrapped plans to build “the Bubble,” a temporary architectural pavilion designed for the Hirshhorn Museum by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The cancellation means the loss of $8 million in commitments from backers.

  Here’s a project from the archives that we never got around to posting, but seeing as how we are in the process of redesigning our magazine, it seemed like a good time to exhume this. The July/August 2012 issue of Walker featured a fashion editorial shot on the occasion of the exhibition, This Will […] Here’s a project from the archives that we never got around to posting, but seeing as how we are in…

The Museum of Non Participation: The New Deal is a fictional museum by London-based artists Karen Mirza and Brad Butler. The exhibition’s multilayered text, sound, film and performance addresses peculiar evolving questions around the public institutions and the collisions of art and the political praxis. In their new act, The New Deal, the duo transforms the […] The Museum of Non Participation: The New…

“The Skyspaces, perhaps, best embody Turrell’s affinity to architecture: of the way space can be molded to heighten emotion and bend light,” writes Carolina Miranda of artist James Turrell’s work, which is on view in shows in LA, NY, and Houston this summer.

“The elder statesman of radical ideas,” Stewart Brand’s ’60s bona fides include publishing the revolutionary Whole Earth Catalog and cofounding the Well. At 74, he’s not slowing down: he’s now trying to resurrect extinct species by retro-engineering their DNA.