Fire EXIT- Mon Dieu ! Apple Store Coming the Louvre November 9, 2009Mon Dieu ! Apple Store Coming the Louvre Malin comme tout ! There’s a price for everything, even in the Louvre: Tomorrow, Apple will be opening up their very first Parisian Apple Store, and it’ll sit in the concourse right below I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid. According to Bloomberg, this’ll be Apple’s 277th store, worldwide. It […]
- Mon Dieu ! Apple Store Coming the Louvre November 9, 2009
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Mon Dieu ! Apple Store Coming the Louvre
Mon Dieu ! Apple Store Coming the Louvre Malin comme tout ! There’s a price for everything, even in the Louvre: Tomorrow, Apple will be opening up their very first Parisian Apple Store, and it’ll sit in the concourse right … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Architecture, Business, Coup de cœur, France
Haus proud: The women of Bauhaus
Haus proud: The women of Bauhaus Bobbed, geometric haircuts. Chunky jewellery. Vegetarian diets. Saxophone playing. Breathing exercises. Painting. Carving. Snapping with brand new 35mm Leica cameras. Dressing in the artiest handmade clothes. Attending arty parties. Ninety years on from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Art, Germany, History
The Freedom to Dream
The Freedom to Dream IS IT POSSIBLE FOR PUBLIC ART PROJECTS TO ADDRESS ISSUES OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL JUSTICE? YES, ARGUES ZAYD MINTY IN HIS PROFILE OF DOUAL’ART, A CAMEROONIAN PUBLIC ART ORGANISATION Ananya Roy’s injunction that a shift … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Art, Cameroon, Urban Planning
Aqueous
Aqueous New York architects The Living, mentioned in an earlier post, have completed another recent project called Amphibious Architecture. This one is an environmental monitoring station—a subtle filigree of colored lights—floating in the rivers of New York. As such, … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, US
Protected by pictures
Protected by pictures An interview with Ai Weiwei in the cellar of Munich’s Haus der Kunst, as the artist was preparing to turn the place into a battlefield. With Hanno Rauterberg What would megalomaniac modesty look like? Is there such … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, China, Human Rights
John Bulmer Retrospective
John Bulmer Retrospective A pioneer of colour photography in the 1960s, photographer John Bulmer began his photographic career in Cambridge, where along with Peter Laurie Brendan Lehane and Adrian Bridgewater they founded Image. The magazine’s aim was to provide its … Continue reading
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Tagged Photography
Ever Spero
Ever Spero Nancy Spero, who died on October 18th in Manhattan at the age of 83, was a woman who possessed immense courage, both in her art and in her life. For more than half a century, this courage propelled … Continue reading
The Geek Atlas
The Geek Atlas The Geek Atlas has rounded up 128 great candidates from around the world. The Atlas calls them “places where science and technology come alive.” I think of these destinations as places that make you think. The possibilities … Continue reading
Don Bojo de la Mancha
Don Bojo de la Mancha Boris Johnson saves woman from street attack Green filmmaker Franny Armstrong pays tribute to ‘my knight on a shining bicycle’ Boris Johnson cycling in London. Photograph: Rex Features Boris Johnson rescued a woman from three … Continue reading
L’ethnologue Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort
L’ethnologue Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort L’ethnologue et anthropologue Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort dans la nuit du samedi 31 octobre au dimanche 1er novembre à l’âge de 100 ans, selon le service de presse de l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences … Continue reading
