Read moreA nuclear bomb detonated by the French government at the Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia, July 1970.
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Read moreقلب is a new programming language exploring the role of human culture in coding. Code is written entirely in Arabic and is the basis of code calligraphy, classical algorithms rendered as traditional Arab art.
Read more“The Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow made a career of disassembling the body, of exposing its weaknesses, its many vulnerabilities, whether through the uses and abuses it’s been put to in the abattoir of twentieth-century history or at the mercy of the more mundane, if no less fatal, everyday mortality. If that sounds like a bit of a downer, worry not: Szapocznikow managed to keep a sly tongue firmly in cheek, and her work, for all its startling beauty, its nearly unbearable intimacy, its sublime evocation of pain and disease and suffering, is witty, even funny.”
Read more from Yevgeniya Traps on Alina Szapocznikow here. Her sculptures will be on display, through January 28, at the Museum of Modern Art.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 