Nature 2.0: an AI robot in a hybrid biological-mechanical body
 
Monsieur Plant’s Nature 2.0 is a robot equipped with artificial intelligence that stands before us, not as a cold, autonomous entity, but as a body traversed, inhabited, and transformed by nature. Its clothing subverts contemporary codes: baggy pants and a loose-fitting sweatshirt, both made of plant-based foam. Clothing, a cultural and social symbol, becomes an extension of life.
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Monsieur Plant explores links between nature and technology
 
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In this week's episode, Ben Luke speaks to correspondent Judd Tully on the New York spring auction results and takes a tour of the James McNeill Whistler exhibition at Tate Britain in London. Digital editor Alexander Morrison sees a frieze by Edvard Munch on display in Oslo.

Co-host Salma Hayek Pinault may be best known to the art world for her Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Frida Kahlo

You saw them here first. This summer, we spotlight the exciting new talent emerging from the UK’s leading art schools. Graduate shows are where major careers begin, offering an early glimpse of the artists and makers set to shape the future of contemporary visual culture. They also demonstrate the importance of arts education, demonstrating how creativity influences every aspect of the world around us. Discover how the class of 2026 is responding to the defining issues of our time across a wide range of disciplines. Arts University Plymouth: Graduate Shows 2026 | 21 May – 30 July In Plymouth, this season is dedicated to propelling the designers and makers of tomorrow into the creative industries. The...

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Monster Chetwynd’s Salamander Portal
 
Monster Chetwynd’s Salamander Portal (2026) has three massive, fuschia salamanders crawling across its arc. Their padded toes cling onto a monolithic ring of what looks like to be inscribed stone carrying heavy water marks at the on set of humidity. It appears as if the arc was there for a very long time, or at the very least, pulled out of a Tomb Raider film. Their large black eyes look upon those who enter and exit the portal. It invokes Julio Cortázar’s experience writing about the eyes on an axolotl, a very ancient looking type of salamander, writing that their eyes, “spoke to me of the presence of a different life, of another way of seeing.”
 
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Work by artists and activists including 10 Foot, Matt Bonner and Gemma Lees shows how land enclosures and early colonial expansion began to change how unhoused people were treated

GINZA SIX MELDS ART AND URBAN LIFE IN TOKYO 
 
GINZA SIX evolves as a dynamic cultural platform where art and urban life collide. Under the guiding theme ‘From the Ginza to the World’, the hub presents high-level sensory stimulation with a global creative exchange. The intervention featuring the contemporary artist Julian Opie debuted on September 11, 2025, marking the first time a dynamic, film installation has ever been presented within the building’s central atrium, which was designed by Gwenael Nicolas of Curiosity. This large-scale, floating LED installation, named ‘Marathon. Women.’ invites visitors to experience immersive art while shopping.   Julian Opie’s ‘Marathon. Women.’ figures...

Harvard Medical School describes scents as “like a key being inserted into a lock” when it comes to our memory. Smells can trigger an emotional response, a vivid recollection or a specific feeling. Consider getting a whiff of a long-forgotten perfume, or a food once cooked by a beloved grandparent. This concept has long been explored by creatives, with olfactory art utilising scent as a way to evoke memories, challenge societal norms and create immersive spaces. Major figures in this space include Anicka Yi, Mike Kelley and Peter de Cupere. Now, artist Keni Li explores this topic in her latest series, Fluid Memory: Wings (2025-2026), which explores how memory can be reconstructed through images, scent...

ma yansong, carlo ratti, and stefano boeri share stage in milan
 
‘The dream becomes true because someone already saw your dream and shared it.’ Set against the backdrop of designboom’s ROOM FOR DREAMS during Milan Design Week 2026, three of the world’s most influential architectural visionaries – Stefano Boeri, Carlo Ratti, and Ma Yansong – gathered to discuss dream projections with designboom’s Managing Editor Claire Brodka. As leaders in urban forestry, smart-city technology, and organic urbanism, the architects shared a stage together for the very first time to explore how their discipline can move beyond static construction to become a proactive force, designing the future before it...

In three and a half decades as a curator, Elizabeth Ferrer had never faced the need to remove an artwork from an opened exhibition. But a month after she inaugurated a major show of Chicano photography at The Cheech in California, which included a 1969 portrait of Cesar Chavez, horrific allegations of sexual assault against the labor leader hit the front pages of national newspapers. Today in Hyperallergic, Ferrer writes candidly about historical revision, a delicate curatorial calculus, and having to make “a decision I could live with.” If you're in New York, don't miss Robert Lugo's new sculptural series, an ode to Puerto Rico rising joyfully from the urban meadow that is Madison Square...

Hugh Broughton reshapes public toilets in Westminster stations
 
Westminster City Council has reopened newly refurbished public toilets at both Piccadilly Circus and Green Park Underground Stations, designed by Hugh Broughton Architects, representing two of central London’s most iconic locations, separated by just one stop on the Piccadilly line. The twin openings mark a significant moment in the council’s ambitious program to upgrade eight public toilets across Westminster. Combined, these stations sit at the gateway to some of London’s most celebrated destinations, including Soho, Regent Street, the theaters of the West End, Mayfair, St James’s, the grand hotel and restaurant culture of the area...

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Christo (1935–2020) never treated space as neutral. Across a practice developed in tandem with Jeanne-Claude, he recast it as something provisional – something that could be tightened, sealed, withheld or briefly made strange. Born in Bulgaria and later based in Paris, his early years under political constraint shaped a lifelong interest in restriction as material condition. What might appear, at first glance, as acts of concealment were in fact acts of disclosure: buildings wrapped, coastlines interrupted, monuments turned temporarily unreadable. In each case, the familiar was not erased but delayed, forcing attention back onto the act of looking itself. The work did not sit in space so much as...

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Era da tempo che l’inaugurazione della Biennale Arte non suscitava così tanto clamore. La 61. Esposizione Internazionale ha cominciato a far parlare di sé a partire dalle polemiche con cui è stata accolta la pubblicazione dell’elenco degli artisti invitati dalla curatrice Koyo Kouoh, scomparsa a maggio 2025, per la precisa ed escludente polarizzazione geografica di cui è espressione. Al dibattito sulla geopolitica artistica configurata dalla ricognizione, seppure non sappiamo fino a che punto compiuta, della potente critica d’arte camerunese naturalizzata svizzera si sono sovrapposte, nelle settimane precedenti l’apertura, ancora più infuocate diatribe in cui l’arte supposta essere al centro...

Artists iterating on a seemingly mundane object is one of our favorite exhibition concepts. Vintage envelopes, coasters, and matchboxes are just a fraction of the items galleries have offered as unique canvases for small works, and now, we can add nighlights to that list. On view through June 26, DUDD LITE is a collaboration between the design collective Dudd Haus and the gallery The Future Perfect. Curated through an open call that garnered nearly 400 submissions, the playful exhibition presents more than 130 artist-designed nightlights made from stained glass, wood, sea shells, ceramic, cotton, and more. The small works hover between sculpture and functional object, each reflecting a distinctive sensibility...

Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.Larry Gagosian Gets the Documentary Treatment A new “unauthorized documentary” about the enigmatic dealer is in the works, as first reported by Page Six and confirmed by Hyperallergic directly with the film's creator, the Canadian director and veteran producer Barry Avrich of Melbar Entertainment Group. Avrich said the film will complete his trilogy about the art industry, following Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (2017) and Made You Look (2020). (He also wrote a book last year about the Knoedler Gallery fraud scandal.) Personally, I am both...

On February 7, the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, California, inaugurated a show I curated: Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026. The largest exhibition ever mounted by The Cheech, it includes some 150 works by 45 photographers based across the United States. The exhibition and accompanying publication also represent the first comprehensive survey of this history, one that spans six decades, beginning with a pioneering generation of photographers who chronicled the Chicano civil rights movement in the Southwest. These artists — including more recent figures like Laura Aguilar, Ken Gonzales-Day, and Christina Fernandez — have played significant roles in...

Architecture scholar Karrie Jacobs often wondered what it would be like to walk New York's shoreline. For the Nation, she investigates an initiative meant to encourage folks to do just that:Sadly, the come-one, come-all version of the 520-mile walk—a two-week extravaganza in which New Yorkers would have marched en masse along the water’s edge—never happened. Too bad. I suspect the project as originally conceived would have been a logistical nightmare, but also a phenomenon: a geekier, slower-moving answer to the New York City Marathon. And the press it surely would have generated could have drawn more attention to the 2021 Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, a document brimming with worthy ideas about...

CANNES, France — By his reckoning, Richard Avedon’s memoir was his work. Early in the new documentary Avedon, which recently premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the famed lensman says in an archival interview that he was “writing an autobiography with the faces of the people I photograph.” It would be fascinating to take this idea seriously and compare the ideas and emotions Avedon’s photos express with his circumstances and feelings when he took them. Instead, the film is a conventional tour of his life; the stories about his well-known pictures are related as straightforward behind-the-scenes peeks, interlaced with simple attestations from talking heads.“Convention” is the name of...

THE THEME OF this year’s Biennale of Sydney is “rememory.” The word is drawn from Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved, and was coined to define a memory that remains in the world, no matter how hidden or repressed. It has a physicality, according to Morrison—you can “bump into a rememory that belongs to someone else,” […]

On Thursday, the luxury fashion house Chanel and Paris’s Centre Pompidou announced a five-year strategic partnership in support of the contemporary art museum’s significant phase of renovations, which is planned to culminate in 2030 with the reopening of the museum.  The new collaboration between Chanel and Centre Pompidou–the two organizations have previously partnered on initiatives […]

Paris’s Centre Pompidou has announced another five-year partnership, this time with the iconic fashion house Chanel. (Last week, the Pompidou and M+ in Hong Kong announced their plan to lend artworks and collaborate on research projects and exhibitions.) Despite being closed until 2030 while undergoing an over $500 million renovation, the Pompidou has kept busy with new collaborations and satellite museums, including those in Seoul, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, and Brussels. The Pompidou and Chanel began working together in 2019, and in 2024 the luxury brand sponsored the museum’s acquisition of a cache of 21 artworks by 15 contemporary Chinese artists, among them Alice Chen, Chen Wei, Cui Jie, Hu Xioyuan, and...

A sacred Buddhist hall on the top of Mount Misen in Japan was destroyed by fire—but an “eternal flame” said to have been burning for more than a millennium was rescued and moved to another site, where it continues to glow. As reported in the New York Times, Reikado Hall, in the south of Japan, “was reduced to a charred skeleton after a fire tore through the building, engulfing its wooden prayer rooms.” No one was injured, fortunately, and the flame that had been burning for some 1,200 years was salvaged and transferred to a less traumatized location. In a statement, the Daisho-in temple, which oversaw the damaged hall, said, “We have received many messages of sympathy. Thank you for your...

The City of Krakow on May 16 announced that its mayor, Aleksander Miszalski, had dismissed Adam Budak as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), igniting a strong response among the artistic community. The city cited “the finding of improper performance of duties related to work organization and team management” as among […]

Spain’s government is turning up the pressure on the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía over longstanding problems tied to its collection inventory, with lawmakers threatening consequences that could ultimately cost museum director Manuel Segade his job. A parliamentary oversight committee in Spain recently passed a resolution demanding that the museum complete a full and updated inventory of its holdings by December 31, 2026, according to Le Journal des Arts. The measure, backed by Spain’s conservative Popular Party and supported by the far-right, passed by a vote of 20 to 13, while the ruling Socialist Party abstained. In notably blunt language, lawmakers said that if the museum fails to...

Members of the Wexner Center for the Arts union have called on university leadership to rename the institution, citing Leslie Wexner’s documented ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wexner Workers United announced on social media yesterday that it had sent a formal letter to Ohio State University president, provost, and board of trustees demanding that they remove the Wexner name from the building’s facade and begin the process of renaming the Wexner Center for the Arts. “As a contemporary arts center showcasing and commissioning the work of our present time, we are inherently entwined with the relevant and urgent events of today,” the letter reads. “Jeffrey Epstein’s orchestration of a...

Trump does not need Congressional approval to build a proposed 250-foot arch on Washington, DC’s Memorial Circle, on Columbia Island, officials are arguing, because a century-old report once called for a pair of 166-foot columns there, reports the Washington Post. Memorial Circle is managed by the National Parks Service and is classified as protected land, meaning Congress must authorize the construction of monuments there. The Post’s sources say that the Trump administration has no plans to ask Congress’s permission. Instead, Trump officials are citing as justification for the arch a 1924 report by a federal commission that designed the Arlington Memorial Bridge, which initially was to include a pair of...

On Tuesday, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs released its finalist shortlist for its planned public monument dedicated to legendary jazz and swing singer Billie Holiday. British sculptor Thomas J. Price and Bahamian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan are both among the top contenders, Artnet reported.  Price’s proposal, entitled Held Within, features two radically […]

The organizers of Art Basel Qatar have tapped Wassan Al-Khudhairi, a specialist in modern and contemporary Arab art and the onetime founding director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, to serve as artistic director of the 2027 edition. The event will take place January 28–30, 2027, with preview days on January 26 and 27, and […]

Every year, there are two major migration events. Birds, insects, fish, and many mammals head north in the spring to nest and breed and return south in the winter to feed and raise their young. Using BirdCast, a tool that’s active seasonally and allows anyone to see bird migration “heat maps” around the U.S., ornithologists tracked a record-breaking one billion birds migrating on a single October night in 2023 (last year, that number reached 1.2 billion). But on the night spanning October 4 to 5, something else really big happened: nearly 1,000 birds died in Chicago after hitting a single building. McCormick Place Lakeside Center is situated along the Lake Michigan shoreline, set apart from other...

Now in its sixth year, the Listening Pitch – commissioned by Aesthetica Film Festival and Audible – continues to assert itself as a vital platform for ambitious, sound-led documentary work. What has become clear over time is that this is not simply a funding initiative, but a curatorial position: documentary understood through listening as method, where sound is not illustrative but generative, shaping how stories are formed, contested, and ultimately understood. In a contemporary nonfiction landscape defined by scale and saturation — where short documentary circulates widely across festivals, broadcasters, and platforms — the Listening Pitch offers a space where attention itself becomes the primary...

In an age defined by the incessant circulation of images, photography has become less a discrete medium than an ambient condition. Pictures arrive and depart with such velocity that looking is often reduced to a kind of reflex – a flicker of attention rather than sustained encounter. The photograph, once anchored in the idea of duration, now behaves like a surface of perpetual present tense, endlessly refreshed and endlessly displaced. However, within this saturation, photography festivals have become increasingly important as counter-temporal spaces – environments in which images are slowed, recontextualised and recharged through proximity, scale and sequence. They function as temporary architectures of...

Ospitata negli spazi della Collezione Maramotti, “Cannon Fodder” segna la prima personale di Giuditta Branconi (classe 1998) in un’istituzione d’arte. La mostra si configura come un’esplicita e lucida dissertazione sul presente, inteso come un quotidiano opprimente in cui le dinamiche emotive e politiche si intrecciano in modo inestricabile. È lo stesso titolo, traducibile letteralmente come “carne da cannone”, a esplicitare la dichiarazione d’intenti dell’artista: un riferimento diretto e urticante a quei corpi sacrificabili, a quella materia biologica e sociale destinata a essere sistematicamente consumata da un macrosistema alienante. Da questa premessa si sviluppa una pittura che non è...

If you want to participate in Pat Perry’s new photo project, you’ll have to get comfortable heading outside, grabbing a few friends, and preparing to hunt low and high for obscure spots in your neighborhood. The Detroit-based artist recently launched “Liminal Bingo,” a communal photo hunt designed specifically “for people ages 5 to 105 living in boring places or exciting places.” Open to anyone with an internet connection, the project has a simple premise: grab a camera (phones are okay, although Perry encourages film if possible), and snap photos of his illustrated prompts. When you’ve collected five in a row, you’ve got a bingo! The instructions, though, are less straightforward than the...

“Paintings arrive at the studio in all states of disrepair,” shares art conservator Julian Baumgartner, who receives artworks in need of attention all the time. He adds, “It is, however, odd to have a painting arrive in a manner that can’t help but make one wonder just how bad it is.” An anonymous portrait was indeed folded inside a parcel that itself had been mangled enough in transit to make one think, Is this going to be salvageable? For the highly trained painting restorer, though, “Fortune favors the fold.” Baumgartner has seen his fair share of bad overpainting and, in this case, pretty substantial creases, tears, and worn-away paint. He runs Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, a...

Oceans cover nearly three-quarters of our planet, containing a staggering 96.5 percent of its water. And despite our ever-advancing technologies and cartographic tools, we’ve still only mapped about a tenth of the earth’s oceans. There’s so much we have yet to see or understand, but our reliance on things like fossil fuels and single-use plastics continues to have an indelible impact on the health of marine wildlife and habitats. Arch Enemy Arts’ forthcoming exhibition, Common Waters, brings these concerns to the fore. From the ethereal weirdness of jellyfish to the delicate branches of corals, the works not only touch on the incredible biodiversity below the surface but also remind us of the ocean’s...

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Nato nel 1971 a Charleston, South Carolina, e attualmente di base a New York, Maxwell Stevens ha stabilito il disegno come pietra angolare della sua pratica, elevandolo a linguaggio visivo autonomo. In questa intervista, l’artista rivela la sua fascinazione per l’immediatezza e la materialità delle opere su carta, dove linea e superficie servono come veicoli dinamici per il pensiero e la riflessione emotiva. Esplorando la tensione tra figurazione e astrazione, Stevens ci invita a vedere il disegno come uno spazio intimo, “palinsestico” che, nella sua semplicità elementale, cattura la complessità frammentata della nostra esperienza contemporanea.
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By Mary Singh Los Angeles has been in a prolonged conversation about monuments. Co-organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art and The Brick, and co-curated by Hamza Walker, Kara Walker, and Bennett Simpson, earlier this year, "MONUMENTS" brought ten decommissioned Confederate statues into the Geffen Contemporary's vast industrial space, placing them in direct dialogue with contemporary works by nineteen artists. Praised by the Los Angeles Times as "the most significant show in an American...

Alla Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, la prima personale istituzionale italiana di Lenz Geerk, Theatre of the Mind, si presenta come un dispositivo percettivo in cui la pittura regola le circostanze dell’apparizione. La mostra elabora un campo in cui sagoma, spazio e tempo non si danno simultaneamente, ma come scansioni differite, in cui la visione arriva sempre leggermente dopo il proprio accadere. Nei dipinti di Geerk non si dispiegano rappresentazioni semplici. Figure, oggetti e situazioni coesistono in configurazioni instabili e gli elementi non tendono a una sintesi, ma rimangono in uno stato di connessione irrisolta, in cui ciò che affiora non coincide mai davvero con ciò che si compie.
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Si entra subito nel cuore del tema centrale osservando le immagini del fotografo colombiano Felipe Romero Beltrán: Bravo è il titolo del progetto che esplora il dramma dell’attraversamento del confine tra Messico e Stati Uniti, costituito dal fiume nel titolo, il Rio Bravo. Eppure, non vediamo figure umane nell’atto di passare il guado, ma soprattutto oggetti, sedie, materassi, pentolame, cortili senza persone, reliquie religiose, e luoghi che ci fanno capire che qualcuno da lì è passato. Come uno spettro. Fantasmi del quotidiano è il leitmotiv della XXI edizione del Festival della Fotografia Europea, realizzata con la curatela di Walter Guadagnini, Arianna Catania, Tim Clark e Luce Lebart.
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By Tabea Martin ‘Me Myself’ brings together four artists — Anna‑Lena Ruff, Debora Schultheiss, Tabea Martin, and Eva Schick — whose works move across differing styles and energies yet find in this art space an unforced coherence. I sense a shared thread of observation and inner dialogue, and a contemplation of natural female presence. The exhibition is currently showing at the Anja Edith Brinckmann Galerie, Basel. From here, the individual narratives invite a closer reading. By Anna-Lena...

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By Lacey Argus It's easy to miss the bite-sized rainbows orbiting around the travertine surfaces of The Getty Center's Main Entrance. Some people breeze by them, eager to visit the various galleries that lie just beyond them. Others dash through them as they rush into a crowded bathroom line. Some briefly glance upward at the towering glass light prisms suspended from the atrium enclosing the space. But not children. If you spend an afternoon amongst these rainbows, you're sure to notice...

W hen we connect over Zoom, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, aka Shoplifter, is in Bentonville, Arkansas preparing to unveil Xanadu, a large-scale, outdoor installation at Format Festival. “It’s going to be like an alien forest that people at the festival roam around in and space out,” says Arnardóttir of the installation, consisting of ten poles ranging in […]
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What do you get when you combine an obsessive urge to create, sleep deprivation, climate change anxiety, and penchant for enchanted nature realms? Amy Casey shows us firsthand, through her infinitely detailed paintings of manmade structures, either clashing or peacefully coexisting with natural environments. In these pieces we might find repetitions of fungi, leaves, and […]
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By Melanie Chapman Let the Art (and the Artist) Speak for Itself Outside of the art world, painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer may not yet be as familiar a name as Jean-Michel Basquiat or Vincent Van Gogh, but to those who followed her artistic growth over the past ten years, she was on her way. Perhaps therein lay the problem. For those who knew Celeste personally and/or had the opportunity to work with her professionally, there is still a profound sense of loss permeating most conversations...

By Coral Pereda Serras Among established and other art spaces in Melrose Hill, sits 1028 N. Western Ave., home to Western Avenue Collective artists studios. This 1922 building hosts 22 artist spaces among which is El Nido, an artist-run curatorial and research space by VC Projects. El Nido, borrowing from its Spanish name, is nested in this distinctly LA courtyard and through "Photography Into Sculpture: An Homage and An Update," emerges as a portal into the imagined memories of a Victorian...

ABOVE: Installation view, Jeffrey Gibson, boshullichi / inlvchi – we will continue to change, Kunsthaus Zürich, 2025, photo by Franca Candrian, Kunsthaus Zürich Jeffrey Gibson was far more open about the act of dreaming and the beliefs that make-up spirituality than I expected. I started our conversation saying that I like to keep things loose, […]
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At some point, I realized I didn’t want to choose between the past and the present. I was interested in allowing them to coexist,” says baroque-style painter Nieves González, who distorts trappings of traditional portraiture to exalt modern day women. Her recent portrait of British pop star Lily Allen, for example, places contemporary attitude—and fashion—within […]
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By Lorraine Heitzman Erik Otsea's show, Clever Animals & Static at Alto Beta is a menagerie of a different sort. His tabletop ceramic sculptures are quirky but solemn hand-built industrial shapes that suggest machine parts found in abandoned factories or as models for obscure patent applications. They conjure Soviet-style brutalist architecture and futuristic inventions, all simple geometric forms that hint at a bygone time when we believed that life could be improved through industry. So...