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mrstsk: A Japanese friend visiting London for a workshop at the Royal College of Art reports to me that an exhibition opens today at the Design Museum entitled United Micro Kingdoms: A Design Fiction. Design theorists and educators Dunne and Raby have re-imagined England, dividing it into four zones or “super-shires” dominated by Digitarians, Bioliberals,…
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…an exhibition at the MFAH this past summer (2008-09) mounted to fill an unexpected hole in the schedule, also curated in part by Ramírez, made an unexpected and, in a way, improbable case for Torres-García’s wider influence on the course of Latin American art. North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection contained a…
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As a teacher of arts and crafts in a Montessori-style school in Barcelona, Torres-García was captivated by the innate creativity of children, and his first explorations with wood began with a project to manufacture educational toys of interchangeable wooden parts. This project never really proved successful, but in 1924 he produced a small, Cubistic wooden…