April 10, 2019 – Five Shouts Out

Black hole picture captured for first time in space breakthrough

FiveApril 10, 2019April 10, 2019

Network of eight radio telescopes around the world records revolutionary image [caption id="attachment_64535" align="aligncenter" width="1065"] The image of a black hole captured by the Event Horizon Telescope. Photograph: EHT Collaboration[/caption]...

Earth

Researchers tap rare pristine air to reveal pollution’s impact

EditorApril 10, 2019April 5, 2019

[caption id="attachment_63538" align="aligncenter" width="1067"] Data was collected by a research aircraft zigzagging between pristine air over the Amazon rainforest and polluted air nearby. Credit: Illustration courtesy of PNNL[/caption] Five years...

Art

How Leigh Bowery Defined the Look of Gay Culture in 1980s London

EditorApril 10, 2019

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,...

Art

Architects Want to Build a Park on Top of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

EditorApril 10, 2019

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...

Art

Explore the Interior of a Rembrandt Masterpiece

EditorApril 10, 2019

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....

Art

Felix Gonzalez-Torres Billboard Returns to New York for 50th Anniversary of Stonewall

EditorApril 10, 2019

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 ©...