In 2008, Nicholas Carr wrote an influential essay in the Atlantic titled “ Is Google Making us Stupid” ? Since that essay’s publication the use of the Internet and its effect on our brains has become a highly divisive topic which has produced a large spat of journalistic and academic articles in its wake.
Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant in Pittsburgh that serves cuisine only from countries with which the United States is in conflict. The artist-run take-out storefront serves a rotating menu every four months to both highlight and introduce a direct, and non-polemic, understanding of these countries and their rich food cultures. Tweet
Artists Trevor Paglen and Jimmy McBride use telescopic science to look skywards and to provide a mirror upon the artistic process itself.
Exhausted from war and nearly ready to quit their revolt, the Mayan rebels of the 1850s in what is today the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, were inspired to continue their uprising by the strange instruction of an alien voice. Crossing Yucatan in an eastward retreat from Merida they were led to a Cenote
In 1968 Andy Warhol invited an experimental rock group to open for his exhibition “Screens, Films, Boxes, Clouds and a Book.” at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm. Warhol had always shown a keen aptitude for identifying musically forward-thinking artists (cf. The Velvet Underground), and when he chose Parson Sound to perform
