The exhibition Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, co-curated by Catherine Morris and Vincent Bonin at the Brooklyn Museum, presents a selection of the artworks which inspired Lippard to write, curate, argue, protest, advocate, and define a movement in 1966-1972. A striking, if not surprising, aspect of the exhibition is the number … [Read more...]
Happy Birthday Lewis Fry Richardson
Thanks to the Writer's Almanac: It's the birthday of physicist and psychologist Lewis Fry Richardson, born in Northumberland, England (1881), who was the first to apply mathematical techniques to predict the weather accurately. During WWI, Richardson served as a driver for the Friends' Ambulance Unit in France. During the intervals between transporting wounded soldiers … [Read more...]
Images of September 8th NYC tornadoes
From The New York Times: Radar images / commentary from the US National Weather Service here. … [Read more...]
Field Conditions – Peter Jellitsch
Peter Jellitsch, SPWS interpreter for August 2012, is showing a new large-scale series of drawings in the exhibition Field Conditions at SFMOMA. The exhibition features works which describe "spatial experiments" and includes nearly 30 works in various media by both contemporary artists and practicing architects. Field Conditions will be on view through January 6, 2013--if … [Read more...]
Hurricane Isaac
From Rebecca J. Rosen for The Atlantic: This comes from hint.fm, a collaboration of data-visualization stars Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. Their wind map provides a nearly real-time glimpse of the wind flow around the United States, based on hourly data drawn from the National Digital Forecast Database. "So," they write, "what you're seeing is a living … [Read more...]