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...Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World at the V&A Dundee is a terrific exploration of the exchanges between the ways cities have been photographed and of how those images have shaped the subsequent...
...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...That finding a box of old cards prompts such a shockwave of nostalgia illustrates how they affect us without us noticing and how brief and contingent their butterfly lives are....
...The US has an installation on the longevity of plastics; outside, there are garish sculptures created from barrels and buckets, creating a rather beautiful landscape of waste....
...This leads us into the final room and its subject, the architects’ plans for the huge and nearing completion Kinderspital (children’s hospital) in Zurich....
...The term suggests that all of us are involved in making spaces: at home, in the city, around us daily, even in our dreams and fears....
...There are threads of place here that connect us deep into history, just as the art gives us a glimpse of an age when England was rising from a provincial to a global force, driven by revolutions in agriculture...
...It is also, to us at least, problematic....
...“It asks,” says Gates, whether “it is possible for us to be on Earth in the vessel and have access to the heavens . . . I just build it and hope nature’s television will show up.”...
...It is still more than capable of inspiring us....
...Can you tell us your name? Arturo ReyesOh, my name is Arturo Reyes....
...That its inhabitant is a lab rabbit complaining to us about his afflictions — inflamed eyes, skin lesions, tinnitus — increases the unease around its verisimilitude....
...Patented: 1,000 Design Patentsby Thomas Rinaldi, Phaidon £29.95 Presented here deadpan in the black and white line drawings for their original US patent applications are some of the most familiar, famous...
...The V&A’s reconstructions of shabby but infinitely layered and complex ad hoc British mosques is very striking and among the most memorable displays....
...US, British and Canadian artists accounted for 73 per cent of total sales value on the Nifty Gateway platform between February 2020 and September 2021....
...Neither did I troop along to the 1974 game-changing exhibition at the V&A, “The Destruction of the English Country House”, at which the images went on show of more than a thousand country houses, castles...
...Cars: Accelerating the Modern World Edited by Brendan Cormier and Elizabeth Bisley, Abrams, V&A, RRP£30/$45 The show at the V&A might have shut early, a victim of the lockdown, but the most fascinating...
...The latest move to address shortages could involve approving Russia’s Sputnik V inoculation....
...Muf was instrumental in the V&A’s acquisition of an apartment-sized chunk of the demolished Robin Hood Estate; it curated the British Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Biennale....
...(FT) Economists are still too upbeat Economists initially, and over-optimistically, embraced a relatively quick V-shaped recovery....
...Details Edwin Heathcote was a guest of The Stratford....
...Trump v the Squad The latest on Donald Trump (sorry)....
...Which brings us back outside again....
...Which brings us to the V&A’s next big exhibition, Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt....
...Reminiscences of a Stock Operator , by Edwin Lefevre (I am not a cyclist). Liar’s Poker , by Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short (NJT)....
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