Link About It: This Week’s Picks

The world's fastest car, Antarctica's extinct forests, turning wine into fuel and more

1. NYC Gallery Showing Every Work They’ve Been Sent for a Show At NYC’s Andrew Edlin Gallery, an open call was posted for any type of artist to submit work and have it featured it the exhibition “Et Tu, Art Brute?,” with the only restriction being that the work must fit within a 16-by-20 inch envelope. Some 740 pieces later, and all the work is …

Dubai Design Week 2017: Global Grad Show

Design problem-solving from 43 countries across six continents

Sometimes graduate shows can be a mixed bag. There are great ideas but poor output or beautiful products without much to say. That said, some such shows are exceptionally interesting, and this is the case with Global Grad Show. The international showcase, now in its third year, has already become one of the main events of Dubai Design Week—on the radar of visionary companies, design …

Ruvan Wijesooriya: Explore the Expansion of Space

The talented photographer takes a meditative approach to a series of abstract images shot around the Yucatán Peninsula

If Mick Rock is the “the man who shot the ’70s,” consider Ruvan Wijesooriya the guy who snapped the aughts. You might know him as the official lensman behind the book “LCD” or the photographer who captures fashion editorials for major magazines, but there’s a quieter side to the artist as well. This is made abundantly clear in his new series, “Explore the Expansion of …