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A Brief History of Memphis, The Design Group that Defined the Look of the ’80s

Whether you think of this as good news or terrible news, in the world of design, the ’80s are back in a big way. So we thought this would be a good time to do a brief dip into the history of the Memphis Design Group, an Italian design and architecture collective whose wild, colorful,

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MARY CORSE: A Survey in Light

At the entrance to Mary Corse: A Survey in Light at the Whitney Museum of American Art, a monitor plays White Light (1968), a film showing a young Mary Corse at work in her studio. In one scene, Corse holds a square of fluorescent tubing, moving it playfully in front of the camera. The square begins to glow, seemingly from within, without any apparent wires or electrical source.

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How to see a memory

Every memory leaves its own imprint in the brain, and researchers are starting to work out what one looks like.

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Huang Yong Ping, Theater of the World, 1993.

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Miyoko Ito, Tabled Presence, 1971. 

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Inside The Global Seed Vault, Where The History And Future Of Agriculture Is Stored

Seeds on Ice author Cary Fowler describes the underground tunnel near the North Pole, which stores and protects a collection of 933,000 samples of different, unique crop varieties.

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Agnes Denes, The Living Pyramid, 2015/2017, on view at documenta 14, 2017. 

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“The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife… Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.” –Rachel Carson 

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Why I Write, the essay of George Orwell. First published: summer 1946 by/in Gangrel, GB, London

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“Words, if one cares enough to find the right ones, are capable at once of taking the measure of the world and of cutting it down to size.”

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The rings of Saturn

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Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone, 1973.

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100 Diagrams That Changed the World

A visual history of human sensemaking, from cave paintings to the world wide web.

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“This view, a super close-up of sorts, has less to do with geology or science but, as we see it, much more to do with the “aesthetic” [...] We are proposing a new aesthetic vantage point that can be thought, articulated, and described from the very position where we reside, by exploring and researching the here and now, listening to the myths and narratives of earthly cultures, recording and interacting with the voices of our cohabitant species (humans, animals, and plants alike), and by sharpening our “supersensitivities” to their needs and wants. This place of concern is not reserved for artists; it embraces artists, geologists, scientists, and thinkers alike, all those who convene to understand the effects of our doings on this sensitive ecosystem and to find novel ways to speak about them… The TBA21 Academy is devoting itself to a new culture of exploration that endorses, promotes, and facilitates research and production (scientific, artistic, intellectual, historic, speculative) that allow us to reimagine, renarrate, redraw, reverse, or at least readjust the ways in which we relate to our planet. It cultivates forms of learning and understanding, based on modes of seeing, of experiencing, of sensing that take place “in the field,” in nature, rather than in the lab or in the studio. This form of learning places the “subject of exploration” at the core of the exploration.”

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“As our lives become more and more connected to our phones and technology, we’re starting to look for more and more ways to also connect with the natural world.” That connection can take place, even momentarily, through the objects we live with, and touch, on a daily basis.”