Buckminster Fuller

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Aaron Stephan's sculpture takes center stage
The centerpiece, conceptually and physically, of Aaron Stephan's show at Whitney Art Works is "Flat World/Round Map," a cast-iron sphere about six feet in diameter. While not exactly the largest ( "18 Columns" covers more ground and "The Burden Crates" is taller) it creates a center of gravity around itself.
By KEN GREENLEAF | June 17, 2009

Losing common ground

A rift between science and activism is undermining progress in the fight against AIDS
Among the chaos of fractious voices at the 17th International AIDS Conference, it’s hard to discern a clear message, and even harder to know who might be receiving it.
By DAVID KISH | October 03, 2008

Selected and otherwise

A sheaf of post-April poetry and poets
Simic is a poet not of big gloomy poems but of small glooms and fears that haunt our waking lives and disturb our sleep.
By WILLIAM CORBETT | May 13, 2008

For the birds

Artful lodger comes to MIT
Buckminster Fuller was an odd duck, one who routinely tackled concepts foreign to him.
By IAN SANDS | April 23, 2008

Myth-making

Constructing images in a fantasy world
The infusion of a personal panoply of mythological motifs allows Kinsella to create highly decorative pieces that still speak to the soul.
By IAN PAIGE | April 23, 2008

Mapping the mind

Deborah Aschheim’s deep cartography
Consider the countless processes your body is performing in order for you to read these words.
By IAN PAIGE | February 14, 2007

Design time

Mitchell Rasor on Percy Cycles, the Eastern Waterfront, and the contemporary city
Mitchell Rasor is changing the way your city looks.
By IAN PAIGE | August 09, 2006

Motion pictures

“Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling” at the ICA
Like countless others, when I was a student and moving each year from dorm to apartment and then to another apartment, I made bookshelves out of bricks and planks of wood.
By MARK FAVERMANN | February 22, 2006