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In our fourth of a series of artist interviews, Swoon discusses how the urban environment informs her work, from Brooklyn streets to Venetian canals to post-earthquake Haiti. |
This week we explored how web designers and developers can help city governments serve their constituents more effectively, particularly through thoughtful adoption of apps. Boston is one of the cities working with Code for America to do this, and some of its neighborhoods may be leading the charge. Participatory
The Architectural League is seeking individuals or teams of artists and designers to create light installation and projection mapping projects for our annual Beaux Arts Ball. Download the complete Request for Proposals here (PDF). The Ball will take place on September 25, 2010, at the American Academy of Arts
After several years obsessively following a cluster of artists, investigators, cartographers and academics interested in varied approaches to human interactions with the land, I was excited to learn that the Experimental Geography exhibition, which showcases many of these projects…
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In the third of a series of interviews with artists, Heather L. Johnson talks about how complex urban infrastructure systems inspire her explorations of movement and space. |
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In the second of a series of interviews with visual artists, Emily Henretta discusses how the process of collage and the experience of cities inform each other. |
Now on view at the Museum of the City of New York is an exhibition of original artworks by the legendary New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams. In an effort to encourage Omnibus readers to check it out, we asked another cartoonist, Amy Hwang, to review the show in the medium that made Addams famous: the cartoon.
Maybe we have art on our minds more after our featured interview with Spanish artist Roberto Mollá, but we have noticed quite a lot of noteworthy city-focused illustration, installations, and video this week. Drawn! introduced us to the work…
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In the first of a series of interviews with visual artists, Roberto Mollá discusses the influence of architecture and the urban environment on his work. |
As a design professional, I’m used to the concept that communities don’t like change. When I read that the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) was presenting an exhibit to examine how urban planning, eminent domain, and real…
