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This new art exhibit puts a human face on hard steel

The Barbican Centre, located on Silk Street in the City of London, is one of the largest performing arts centers in Europe. (The smallest is Captain Franko’s Fantabulous Flea Circus in Covent Garden.) Until January 11th, 2015, the venue is hosting an exhibit called “Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age” which, through over 250 works by 18 celebrated artists, seeks to explore the relationships that buildings develop with their surroundings, separate from the hyperfocused spreads of traditional architectural photography. Constructing Worlds removes the architect’s ego The display has been designed to communicate to people, not architects. In…
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Museum of Contemporary Art, LA is doing a YouTube series with all these awesome devs

Add The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles to the list of respected art institutes that are recognizing games as the beautiful design objects that they are. Well, at this point we don’t really need to keep a list anymore. But you should still check out MOCA’s fantastic looking, 13-part web-series that will feature conversations with notables such as Jenova Chen, Kellee Santiago (both of Journey), and Mark Essen (of Nidhogg). Plus, Kill Screen bossman Jamin Warren is in the first episode right off the bat.  Be sure to tune in.
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We are living in a terrifying sci-fi universe, says new museum exhibit

Sci-fi is the domain of Dune debates and fantasizing about the civil rights of autonomous robots, right? It’s cool and important stuff, but often studious, and not something you’d expect to find at an art gallery.  But the Science Fiction: New Death exhibit, currently showing now through June 22 at the University of Liverpool, features all kinds of art that’s inspired by sci-fi, such as creepy AI-controlled robots that peep at you through holes in sheetrock.  The motivation for the show was to point out how older visions of the future (via tech-y oracles like Orwell and Gibson) didn’t pan…
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Studio Ghibli beer, worth drinking for the whimsical label alone

The label on this bottle of beer strikes me as curious and whimsical and unlike anything I’ve seen in my lustrous beer-drinking career, which has been the downfall of many-a-beers. That’s because it comes from the hot-dog stand at the Studio Ghibli Museum in Tokyo, as snapped by a blogger over at Boing Boing. You can really sense the Miyazaki-ness of this bottle that pays tribute to Nausicaä: Valley of the Wind. Now I’ll spend the rest of the afternoon dreaming of what other Studio Ghibli-themed beers might be peddled there: a Porco Rosso saison, perhaps?  Via Boing Boing
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Space Invaders, Missile Command, and other classics painted in fresco

Just in time for Easter, these regal fresco paintings inspired by the videogames of yore are now showing at Kim Foster Gallery on 529 W 20th Street in New York. The show, called Genesis, is the artistic outpouring of Dan Hernandez, a man whose love for classic arcade games is only equaled by his love for Italian Renaissance murals, apparently.  Much of his art looks like something out of a Medieval cathedral or manuscript, but modernized with bloody, game-y pop art. On one canvas, you see a saint with nimbus throwing fireballs Mario-style, while right below him there are holy…
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Who needs iPhones when we have gigantic storytelling ribbons?

Touch-screens are pretty great for mobile phones, except when you’re typing, and cutting-and-pasting, and, well, a bunch of other stuff, but using a touch-screen at a museum takes the ritual out of running your fingers through those old archives. So The Museum of The History of Polish Jews in Warsaw commissioned this statuesque, narrative ribbon that looks like a gull with spread wings on which to present the stories of Semitic Poland. Called Macrofilm, this one-of-a-kind slide projector allows visitors to spin a hand-sized wheel to scroll through cards. It was important for them to come up with an unique experience…
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This artist is playing Civilization 24/7. You know, for art

You can find the artist Diego Leclery at a makeshift desk outside the Whitney Museum, staring at a monitor displaying Civilization, hand clutching a mouse. He has previously dressed up as a polar bear and allowed people to be photographed with him as art. His new piece is called Me Playing Civilization. His reasoning? “Since I moved to New York, I haven’t really made any art. I play a lot of Civilization. I got asked to be in the Biennial, and what am I gonna do? Make some shit? No. I’m going to transform the activity of the last year and…