Spaces create stories. In the late 1970s, Sydney’s underground walkways and parking stations were the places where you could experience the stark, modernist spaces of the era’s science fiction movies.
“A beguilingly simple, yet fatal problem…”
“It’s 2025, and 800,000 tons of used high strength steel is coming up for auction. “The steel made up…
Archibald 2017: a cup of tea and a good lie down
The tension between traditional portraits and works that sit at the limits of what most people consider a portrait is the friction that fires up the whole engine of the prize.
Man-Mediated Minerals
“Robert Hazen, a mineralogist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, and his colleagues tallied up the number of minerals on…
“Where is this information?”
“Millions of years ago, a few spiders abandoned the kind of round webs that the word “spiderweb” calls to mind…
New Equations of Meaning
“A pioneer of “Afrofuturism,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his…
The Production of Space
“[Agree To All] offers an immersive but unsettling glimpse of how the future urban experience might look like for some,…
Novel, but not too novel
“Now and then, a painter like Claude Monet or Pablo Picasso comes along and turns the art world on…
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