Our Future Art Capitals

Inflatable jungle gyms, action images from Sochi stitched together and predictions for the next big art cities in this week's look at the web

Johannesburg and Beirut, Lagos and Bogota—beautiful, storied cultural centers, that are vastly different but unified by a new prediction. These will be four of the 10 biggest art cities of the future. According to a new book from UK’s Phaidon PRess, “Art Cities of the Future & 21st Century Avant-Garde,” the aforementioned—as well as New Dehli, San Juan, Sao Paolo and others—will surpass NYC, Paris …

Barbican’s “Momentum”

Inflatable jungle gyms, action images from Sochi stitched together and predictions for the next big art cities in this week's look at the web

In the 99 meter long Curve space within London’s Barbican gallery, United Visual Artist’s have installed 12 slowly oscillating light-bearing structures, forever shifting in the dark, smoke-filled space. Captured in a new, eerie promotional video, “Momentum” aims to call into conflict our understanding of natural and synthesized movement. Rounding out the sensory exploration, each moving element comes complete with a 3D-printed acoustic chamber, emitting a …

Sochi, Frame by Frame.

Inflatable jungle gyms, action images from Sochi stitched together and predictions for the next big art cities in this week's look at the web

Whether it’s figure skating or downhill skiing, at times it’s difficult to tell just what’s going on on a physical level. To help demonstrate the intricate body movements of each athlete, The New York Times pulled together a stellar array of stitched together images shot at extremely high frame rates. In addition to witnessing the amazing feats in greater detail, we can finally see where …