Art and Design
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This is Neurowire Daily, Art and Design, for Friday the second of October. Coming to you straight from Neurowire dot app.
El Nino threatens thousands of archaeological sites in Peru. Jackson Pollock's old apartment goes up for sale. And someone pays eight point four million dollars for a Pokemon card.
16 stories. 4 minutes. Here we go.
Art and Design.
Top of the list, theartnewspaper dot com. The strongest El Nino in decades is threatening Peru's adobe heritage, with authorities scrambling to protect more than ten thousand coastal archaeological sites, and experts accusing them of insufficient planning despite warnings.
Also today. Hyperallergic dot com profiles Max Bond Jr, the architect who lobbied for and co designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, arguing he deserves a larger place in history.
Designboom dot com reports a Dutch student built electric car concept called VENTRA, from TU slash ecomotive, that captures tire dust particles close to where they're released and reuses some inside the cabin.
News dot artnet dot com says Jackson Pollock's old loft on Carmine Street in New York's West Village is up for sale, the building where he lived as a twenty year old aspiring artist.
Staying with architecture. Dezeen dot com reports Mexican studio Chain plus Siman has completed Casa Ani, a six hundred eighty nine square metre weekend house in Valle de Bravo that connects contemporary gables to a stone clad bunkhouse.
Theartnewspaper dot com profiles a new documentary about Frank Matsura, a Japanese immigrant photographer who turned an empathetic eye on rural Pacific Northwest communities in the early twentieth century.
News dot artnet dot com reports the founders of Basel Social Club are bringing a Tokyo edition called Tokyo Jazz Club, with some sixty galleries taking over eight floors of a capsule hotel.
Now the strange one. Creativebloq dot com reports a Raincoat Pikachu card has sold for eight point four million dollars, making it the second most valuable Pokemon card in history.
Designboom dot com reports architects Hector Navarro and Arkhitekton have reworked the seafront of Comillas, Spain, with a dune inspired promenade using sand, vegetation, permeable surfaces and limestone.
Dezeen dot com reports a San Francisco exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts explores the quote radical imagination of design studio Rael San Fratello, featuring a structure made of bio based thermoplastic and recycled broom heads.
Thisiscolossal dot com reports teamLab, a collaborative of hundreds of artists and technologists, is expanding perceptions in Chicago through boundary breaking installations.
Creativebloq dot com reports Vauxhall has revealed what it calls a bold and pure new logo, dropping the brand's flag symbol for the first time since 1915.
News dot artnet dot com reports Marina Abramovic is turning eighty and still working, amid a flurry of new exhibitions, a touring performance, and a new book called Long Life, Short Stories.
Hyperallergic dot com reports Alice Neel's trial drawings from the McCarthy era Foley Square hearings, made while the Communist painter was on assignment for a Marxist magazine, are going to auction.
Theartnewspaper dot com reports a blind man is suing the British Museum over its lack of audio description for the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. The museum says in person audio descriptions are available.
Closing out, dezeen dot com reports Design Museum Gent in Belgium has completed a building revamp, set to reopen to the public this weekend.
That's Neurowire Daily for Friday. Full transcript, every source link, neurowire dot app.
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