Open Score

The U.S. Open of art: Rauschenberg's 1966 performance pairing tennis and technology

Think branded interdisciplinary content is a recent phenomenon? In 1966 a unique project was hatched when conceptual artists and Bell Labs engineers collaborated on a series of live installations inside a National Guard Armory in New York City. One of those, “Open Score” by Robert Rauschenberg, pitted artists—including minimalist painter Frank Stella—against each other in a live game of tennis with rackets wired to switch …

Landscape Futures

Perception shifts as art and nature intersect at the Nevada Museum of Art

Promising “unexpected access to the invisible,” what exactly the Nevada Museum of Art’s current show Landscape Futures proposes isn’t immediately clear. On first blush, the work looks like the usual collection of forward-thinking designs. But here there’s a catch. The exhibit’s range of large-scale installations, experiments and devices all concern themselves less with the design itself than with the viewer’s reaction to it. Two years …

Bug Originals

USB vibrators, mealworm meals and Ford's new concept car in our weekly look at the web

The Atlantic’s Daniel Fromson has lunch with Marian Peters, the brains behind Amsterdam’s Bug Originals. Discussed over a plate of mealworm fried rice, Peters aims to make bugs a mainstream protein source through her line of insect-based meals and a cookbook with revered entomologist Arnold van Huis.