Canopy Walk Opens May 1st

Atlanta Botanical Garden

Beginning in May, Garden visitors may tour one of the city's last remaining urban forests ­ from 40 feet in the air ­ when the long-awaited Canopy Walk opens, lending a bird's-eye view to the beauty of a woodland below.
http://atlantabotanicalgarden.org/site/involvement/canopy_walk

Legacy of Shame

Signs reading “white” and “colored” appear once more outside separate waiting rooms in a century-old train depot in Orange, VA.
The divided waiting rooms are accompanied by a plaque explaining the history of the depot and of civil rights in America. http://www.archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=4387

peter root: ephemicropolis

Artist Peter Root has sent designboom a look at his latest work ‘ephemicropolis’, a metropolis made

completely from stacks of metal staples. http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/9947/peter-root-ephemicropolis.html

ShowCase: Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art

Igor Franić of studio za arhitekturu (SZA) took into consideration the strongly stressed orthogonal matrix of Novi Zagreb, from where he continued to develop the project. http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=97851_0_23_0_M

Damaged Picasso Returns to the Met After Repair

by Carol Vogel

“The Actor,” left, by Picasso, is back on display in a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after having a rip repaired. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/arts/design/21picasso.html?ref=arts

UK Prepares to Use Human Poop to Power Homes

by Brit Liggett
Scientists in the UK are looking into creating a closed loop system using human waste that would provide electricity to the grid. http://inhabitat.com/2010/04/19/uk-prepares-to-use-human-poop-to-power-homes/

A Funky Museum Opening

BY BARRY SAUNDERS for newsobserver.com

"The Thinker" didn't get much thinking done Saturday night, not with hundreds of people milling around drinking, eating and staring at him.

Read more at the link below:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/20/445571/a-funky-museum-opening.html#storylink=addthis

You Can't Quote my Granny like That

by sabine7
Dublin artist Asbestos works with found objects like drawers, desk tops, tables and assorted bits of wood often found in city skips. The dumpster diving pays off when Asbestos embellishes his finds with mixed media that includes photography...
http://mocoloco.com/art/

Chambre d’Ami by Matali Crasset

Milan 2010: at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile last week French designer Matali Crasset presented a guest bed that folds into a coat stand for Italian brand Campeggi. http://www.dezeen.com/2010/04/19/chambre-dami-by-matali-crasset-for-campeggi/#more-75337
See it unfold!

CYPRIEN GAILLARD

By Mark Prince

These scenes are from Cities of Gold and Mirrors

(2009), a 16mm film shot in the Mexican coastal resort of Cancún. Its synthesized soundtrack comes from The Mysterious Cities of Gold, a cartoon of the 1980s. That was also MTV’s golden era, and the film itself is as flashy as a good pop music video.

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/cyprien-gaillard/

Flirting with Danger

By Suzanne LaBarre
A new elevated walkway at Morris Arboretum offers the thrill of dangling in the treetops.
http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20100414/flirting-with-danger

The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire

March 24-July 5, 2010 at the Getty Villa

The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire explores the parallels between two great empires—the Aztec and the Roman. Celebrating the 2010 bicentennial of Mexican independence, the exhibition illuminates a dialogue between the New and Old Worlds that has shaped the modern contours of Mexico. http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/aztec/index.html

Scientists Discover How to Turn Ordinary T-Shirts Into Body Armor

by Jasmin Malik Chua
A Hanes Beefy that can deflect bullets may sound like the stuff of comic books, but scientists have developed a way of bulking up an ordinary T-shirt to create wearable armor. http://www.ecouterre.com/15824/scientists-discover-how-to-turn-ordinary-t-shirts-into-body-armor/

In Focus: Leonardo Finotti

In Focus is Archinect's new series of features dedicated to profiling the photographers who help make the work of architects look that much better. What has attracted them to architecture? How do they work? What type of equipment do they use? What do they think about seeing their work in blogs?


In this feature, we talk to Brazilian-Portuguese photographer Leonardo Finotti. http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=97428_0_23_0_M

Enveloping Experience

You have a little less than a month to get over to the Pratt Manhattan Gallery. Presented there is the exhibit ‘Envelopes’ which is a wonderful and must-see exploration of new and sustainable potentials of the architectural surface both in terms of the skin of a building and as a sensorial space that envelops the body. http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/1957/enveloping-experience/#more-1957

Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People

Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People

By Emily Pilloton
Foreword by Allan Chochinov
http://www.artbook.com/9781933045955.html

The Color Green is Toxic to People, Contaminates Recycling

by Bridgette Meinhold

Green is the color of nature, the environment and sustainability, but ironically the pigments used to create the color are not all that healthy or environmentally friendly. http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/04/05/ironic-twist-of-fate-the-color-green-is-toxic/#more-101858

Libraries and the Preservation of Early Photography

By Larry J. Schaaf

Much of the important photographic record of nineteenth-century life entered libraries through books with original prints and has thus survived almost by accident. http://www.themagazineantiques.com/articles/libraries-and-the-preservation-of-early-photography/

UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010

With just one month to go until the opening of Shanghai Expo 2010, the largest Expo ever held, the UK is releasing exclusive images of its acclaimed Pavilion.
More pictures here:  http://www.dezeen.com/2010/04/04/uk-pavilion-at-shanghai-expo-2010-by-thomas-heatherwick-more-images/