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hyperallergic: Pop culture fetishization of war and violence of video games are explored with vivid watercolor-based animation in Eddo Stern’s Vietnam Romance, on view at Postmasters gallery in Tribeca. Artist and game designer Stern’s multichannel game stretches 36 feet across four screens, where visitors can interact with environments set in both 2015 and 1965. Gaming…
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prostheticknowledge: antenna Conceptual art object by vtol is a police truncheon that sends a text message each time it is used by force: This device is a police truncheon equipped with a GSM-module which sends a short phone message with the text “Mom, I hit a man” every time when someone uses it to hit…
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hyperallergic: ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, New York — The original Oklahoma! musical from 1943 is set in the 1900s, during a much “simpler” time. Happiness was a field of wheat, 50 dollars was a significant sum of money, and a seven-story building was a skyscraper. Based on the 1931 play by Lynn Riggs, the musical now playing at…
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Eric Carle wrote a children’s book 10 Little Rubber Ducks inspired by the Floatees (Harper Collins 2005, ISBN 978-0-00-720242-3). At least one other children’s book has been written about the ducks, and the toys themselves have become collector’s items, fetching prices as high as $1,000. In 2004, Sandpiper published Ducky, written by Caldecott award winner…
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I worry that we’ll have two classes of transportation: We’ll have the elites, who’ll drive in Uber blacks, and we’ll have the poor, who wait longer and longer for the public buses that never come because the public system has basically become even more underfunded than it already was. That’s still working itself out. The…