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Alone Together
Via mnoriginal.org
Jan 22
Minneapolis-based photographer JoAnn Verburg—who recently discussed her 9/11 photos for our series Lowercase P: Artists & Politics—says much of her art comes out of “the fact that we’re alone and we’re not alone.”
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Pre-Pop Warhol
Via guardian.co.uk
Jan 22
Some 300 drawings from the 1950s have been unearthed in the Warhol Foundation’s storage. To be published for the first time in a book next week, they show “a skilled and sensitive draughtsman producing images that are more Egon Schiele than pop art.”
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Catdance
Via twincities.com
Jan 22
It was inevitable: after our first-ever Internet Cat Video Festival last summer, cats are showing up at the Sundance Film Festival. 90201 star AnnaLynne McCord hosted five films Saturday in an event dubbed “Catdance.”
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Houseprinting
Via dezeen.com
Jan 21
Universe Architecture’s Landscape House aims to be the first 3D printed building in the world. With a looping design reminiscent of a Möbius strip, it’ll be created using a giant D-Shape printer.
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Mali’s Music
Via guardian.co.uk
Jan 18
With music widely banned in Islamist-controlled areas of Mali, the Glastonbury Festival announced it’ll be highlighting Malian musicians this year, with Rokia Traoré—who played the Walker in 2004—kicking off the event.
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Passings: Balthazar Korab
Via architizer.com
Jan 17
Balthazar Korab, an architect and winner of an AIA Medal for Architectural Photography, has passed away at age 86. Subject of the 2012 book Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography, he served as Saarinen’s in-house photographer.
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Formica Turns 100
Via guardian.co.uk
Jan 17
“The brave new seamless surface of the future is officially an antique,” writes Oliver Wainwright of Formica’s 100th birthday. Designs with names like Skylark, Mayflower, and Softglow abounded in the laminate boom that shaped mid-century interior design.
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McGee Goes Big
Via laughingsquid.com
Jan 17
Barry McGee, whose first US museum solo show was at the Walker in 1998, has created a giant mural on the side of the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn. Measuring 96 by 67 feet, it includes his signature text, figures, and geometric shapes.
