Yes, Anish Kapoor purchased exclusive rights to the color for visual art, but the entertainment world sees numerous uses for it and has been itching to put it to work. But Vantablack's complicated application technique has been a hindrance —until a recent, surprisingly simple innovation. - Fast Company
Their stories say something deeper about Neutra’s achievement, which has less to do with stylish surfaces than with underlying rhythms—the search for a shelter that is also open to the world. - The New Yorker
An art history professor happened to be in the Church of the Holy Family in New Rochelle when he saw a painting that made him do a "double take." It turned out to be Cesare Dandini's Holy Family with the Infant St. John, dating from the 1630s. - Artnet
The Frank Gehry-designed museum, one of several starchitect-designed brand-name cultural institutions planned for the Emirati capital's Saadiyat Island, is expected to be October of 2026, 16 years after the originally planned opening and a full two decades after the project was announced. - Artnet
Their original goal was to create a paint that would effectively reflect sunlight away from a building, which required producing an extremely white pigment. - Hyperallergic
Each year, an online architecture magazine offers a list of 80-odd edifices from which readers can vote for the ten ugliest buildings in China. What's the purpose? "To provoke thinking about the beauty of and ugliness of architecture and promote architects' social responsibility." - The Guardian
Those solid, 850-year-old walls were damaged much more by the catastrophic 2019 fire than authorities realized at first. (They really could have collapsed.) Now that they're stabilized, rebuilding can begin — and could possibly be finished in time for the 2024 Olympics. - Artnet
Sebastian Smee: "Wrapping a triumphal arch is a way of creating something beautiful that also says: Enough with your delusions of grandeur. Away with your nationalist rhetoric, your dreams of world conquest. Away with all lies." - Washington Post
The proposed 22-story glass-skinned office tower would create its own bubble-like world with garden levels open to the elements on the 10th and 17th floors and an enclosed landscaped rooftop with a restaurant, all served by a funicular tram traveling up and down the sides. - Los Angeles Times
The artist says, "One of the hardest things to do when you're a graffiti artist is to scale up." An unused Boeing 777? That's definitely a bit larger than some street canvases. - BBC
The Syrian refugee children, presented with analogue cameras and film, "burst out laughing and say: 'These are cameras from my parents’ time.' ... But, when they start using them, something magical happens." - The Guardian (UK)
After an outcry, the NYPL says its Picture Collection will remain accessible to the public - still browsable, still circulating. The collection "has been used by theater and movie production designers, cartoonists and illustrators, and artists. Among its eminent devotees were Andy Warhol and Joseph Cornell." - The New York Times
Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris: "Christo overwhelms us, prods us, makes us talk. ... He plays with light, with the Paris sky that reverberates through his ephemeral work." - The New York Times
