Network of eight radio telescopes around the world records revolutionary image Astronomers have captured the first image of a black hole, heralding a revolution in our understanding of the universe’s most enigmatic objects. The picture shows a halo of dust and gas, tracing the outline of a colossal black hole, Continue Reading
Five years ago, researchers spent three hours packed aboard a steamy Gulfstream-1 research aircraft as it zig-zagged between pristine air over the Amazon rainforest and polluted air nearby. It was like a trip back (and forth) through time, as scientists weaved between the two vastly different settings, snagging air samples Continue Reading
Fergus Greer, “Leigh Bowery, Session III, Look 15” (1990) (image © Fergus Greer, courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery) LONDON — Disco terrorist. Queer monster. Modern art on legs. Impossible to pin down, Leigh Bowery was a monument to his own great, self-willed perversity. He turned his hulking body into a living Continue Reading
A rendering of the BQP proposal (all images by Bjarke Ingels Group: BIG) Architecture firm BIG has unveiled a proposal to replace a decaying section of New York City’s Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) with a park. The proposal reroutes traffic to a subterranean roadway that would also include underground parking. The Continue Reading
Screenshot of the Rembrandt Reality app (all photos courtesy Capitola) AMSTERDAM — Recently I walked into a painting. I entered it and was surrounded by its enveloping darkness, its piecemeal illuminations. I walked in front of and sometimes faced each of the characters arrayed around a central figure, a corpse, Continue Reading
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (1989), installation view at Sheridan Square in New York’s West Village, organized by Public Art Fund (photo courtesy Public Art Fund and the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation © Felix Gonzalez-Torres) There are only two lines of text on the pitch-black billboard Felix Gonzalez-Torres debuted in 1989, but every Continue Reading
LA Art Book Fair 2017 (photo by Rob MacInnis) The LA Art Book Fair (LAABF) first launched in 2013 as the West Coast version of Printed Matter’s popular New York Art Book Fair. Despite the stereotype that Angelenos aren’t a particularly bookish bunch, “the truth is that there are pockets Continue Reading
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