Tessa Bergan

Interdisciplinary Sculpture Journal                                                      

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The Retrofuture Shock of Post-Soviet Architecture

If you think Soviet architecture was strange — with its retrofuture angles and monolithic forms — you should see what came after the USSR's collapse. German photographer Frank Herfort has spent years traveling all over Russia and the former Soviet territories, from metropolises to remote rural zones, to capture the bizarre architecture of the post-Soviet era.

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Meditative Light Art with Dark Undertones

At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Tatsuo Miyajima uses light to reflect on the transcendent, spiritual, and experiential aspects of time.

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Unbuilt Los Angeles: the city that might have been – in pictures

From the offshore Santa Monica freeway to a mini Las Vegas with pyramids and the Parthenon, Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell look at the LA that never happened

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A Visual Homage to Brutalist Behemoths

Even while major Brutalist structures face preservation issues — like Marcel Breuer's Central Library in Atlanta, whose fate is being decided now — the aesthetic of these concrete-based buildings continues to gain in popularity.

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The End of the World as We Know It

The Nuclear Culture Source Book considers the “lived experience of the uncanny nature of radiation” ushered in by disasters such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima.

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How Art Making Is Like World Building

This group show acknowledges the art-making process as one of world building, in the sense that artists are continuously generating sets of rules to govern their work.

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New Art from China Renders Local Histories Fantastic, Futuristic, and Bloody

Each of these thoughtful, well-realized works offers an investigation into global politics, the contemporary as historical, and environmental collapse, with room to laugh, rest, and think in between.

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Visions of Pulsing Milk and Toothy Corn

The centerpiece of Monica Cook's new exhibition at Postmasters Gallery is the stop-motion video "Milk Tooth," which brings to life a vivid and dystopian alternate world.

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Jet-Age Dreams in the Vintage Posters of Pan Am Airlines

"Pan Am: History, Design & Identity," a new book by Matthias C. Hühne, retraces the distinct design history of the defunct Pan Am airlines.

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Oskar Schlemmer's Prophetic, Dancing Robots

An exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights the German artist's paintings, drawings, choreography, and costume designs that imagine the integration of humans and machines.

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An Artistic Storm Fills a Formerly Abandoned Water Reservoir

Magdalena Fernández's art installation is the first to fill the Buffalo Bayou Cistern, a formerly abandoned 1920s water reservoir in Houston, Texas.

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Michael C. McMillen, Michael C. McMillen: Outpost. L.A. Louver gallery exhibitions in Venice, California and in museums around the world.

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Setting Aluminum Animals Loose on the Streets of Detroit

On a recent frigid, polar vortex night, husband-and-wife public art duo Hygienic Dress League set out in a van with a flock of aluminum-molded animals.

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Doug Aitken's Masterful Videos and Boring Sculptures

'Electric Earth' illustrates the difficulty of a sweeping retrospective by smashing excellent video work up against shallow sculpture.

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A Photographer Visits Modern Acadia, Following Longfellow's "Evangeline"

Mark Marchesi spent several years documenting the emptiness of Acadia, which inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 epic poem.

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In Search of Bas Jan Ader, the Artist Who Disappeared at Sea

In 1975, artist Bas Jan Ader attempted to sail across the Atlantic. The discovery of his boat 10 months later sparked a fetishistic fascination with his disappearance.