For Love & Art: Sharing With Seniors

Technology and fine art collide in a device bringing museums to the elderly

A Texas-based project, For Love & Art helps the elderly living in hospices enjoy fine works of art during their last days through digital photos. A partnership between art galleries and museums brings thousands of pieces of fine art to Digital Foci‘s eight-inch high-resolution digital LCD notebooks for viewing by those who are no longer able to travel. Already NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and …

Station To Station Reissue

An online scavenger hunt kicks off the reissue of David Bowie's influential tenth album

Ground control to Bowie fans—the iconic singer today re-releases his legendary tenth studio album Station To Station with a web-based scavenger hunt to promote it. Simply gather all nine images of The Thin White Duke from around the web (starting with the one here) for access to a never-before-heard Bowie KCRW remix and a chance to win the Deluxe Edition box set, t-shirt, Bowie catalog …

Holograms

Candice Lin's sculptural illusions and videos taking on racial and gender inequalities

Artist Candice Lin‘s new exhibit “Holograms” uses video and sculpture to challenge the distribution of power among races and genders, exploring the concept of authentic identity. In her ceramic sculpture “The Moon,” Lin challenges understandings of feminine interiority by requiring audiences to peer through the vulva of a truncated female form in order to watch the animated loop inside. Dubbed “Inside Out,” the animation addresses …