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Adhocracy

SolarSinter, a printer that takes sun and sand and converts to glass by Markus Kayser

The exhibition “Adhocracy” will be open at New Museum. It brings together an international group of designers, practitioners, networks, and platforms responding to epochal changes and questioning the very definition of design.

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IDEAS CITY

Cover Image: Daniel Arsham in “Let Us Make Cake” (2011). Photo: Benoit PailleyCover Image: Daniel Arsham in “Let Us Make Cake” (2011). Photo: Benoit Pailley

IDEAS CITY explores the future of cities around the globe with the belief that arts and culture are essential to the vitality of urban centers, making them better places to live, work, and play. Founded by the New Museum in 2011, IDEAS CITY is a major collaborative initiative between hundreds of arts, education, and community organizations. This year’s theme is Untapped Capital, with participants focused on resources that are under-recognized or underutilized in our cities.

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Wolfgang Laib Exhibition

Wolfgang Laib sifting hazelnut pollen, 1992. Courtesy Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York

Wolfgang Laib’s Pollen from Hazelnut will inhabit the museum’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, infusing the space with a yellow luminosity. Laib perceives the Marron Atrium as the Museum’s inner sanctum, its womb, and has created this work especially for the site. It will be the artist’s largest pollen installation to date, measuring approximately 18 x 21 feet. The exhibition by Wolfgang Laib will be held in MoMa in New York.

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Marina Zurkow “Necrocracy”

Marina Zurkow. Mesocosm (Wink, TX), 2012. Color animation, sound, custom software, computer.

bitforms gallery is pleased to announce its first New York solo exhibition with artist Marina Zurkow. Exhibited widely throughout the US and recognized recently with a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, Zurkow is known for cross-disciplinary animation work and her participatory art environments.

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“…later” by Phyllida Barlow

untitled: crater (detail), 2012 polystyrene, carpet felt, cement, scrim, paint, PVA 76 x 92 x 89.5 cm / 29 7/8 x 36 1/4 x 35 1/4 in

Hauser & Wirth New York is pleased to present …later, an exhibition of new work by celebrated British artist Phyllida Barlow.

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