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April 2009 - Posts

• Fighting gravity and putting a price on time

  [From Hannah McCann at the Culture desk] Yesterday at Sotheby's in New York: An auction of "Important Watches," including this silver-cased pocket watch by A.H. Potter, 1857. Read the catalog describing 165 vintage and modern timepieces, Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 7:44 PM by hmccann | 0 Comments

• A diamond who wants to be coal

  [From Hannah McCann at the Culture desk] Unveiled today at the Salone Internazionale Del Mobile in Milan: Israeli designer Arik Levy's sculptures inspired by Swarovski crystal. Levy collaborated with rapid prototyping company . MGX by Materialise Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:31 PM by hmccann | 0 Comments

• A changing India

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• When the fence comes down

  [From Hannah McCann at the Culture desk] Construction may be at a standstill on sites across the globe, but there’s something else to watch: the fence. Construction-site fencing, or tapumes in Portuguese, is reconsidered in an exhibition currently Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:07 PM by hmccann | 0 Comments

• Time for fantasy, courtesy of Michael Van den Besselaar

  [From Hannah McCann at the Culture desk] Now on view at the Black & White Gallery in New York (and in a limited online gallery of images), architectural renderings that veer into fantasy by Michael Van den Besselaar. The Paris-based, Dutch painter's Read More... Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 11:22 AM by hmccann | 0 Comments

• Land massings by Andrew Rogers

  [From Hannah McCann at the Culture desk] Australian artist Andrew Rogers has spent the last decade roaming the world, convincing people—over 5,000 people in 12 different countries—to help him make giant stone sculptures called geoglyphs. These Read More... Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:34 PM by hmccann | 0 Comments