Sound Wave

The Museum of Arts and Design, formerly the American Craft Museum, moved to its new home at 2 Columbus Circle in Manhattan in September 2008.

The Museum of Arts and Design’s first exhibitions opens tomorrow and one of the exhibitions, “Second Lives”, includes Jean Shin’s awesome piece entitled “Sound Wave”.

Brilliant.

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary features work by 50 international established and emerging artists from all five continents who create objects and installations comprised of ordinary and everyday manufactured articles, most originally made for another functional purpose. For a complete artist list, Click Here.

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary Opens September 27, 2008 - February 15, 2009

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HMK

Thanks to Roberta Smith's New Your Times article Using Old Materials to Put a New Face on a Museum.

Bicycling During Wartime

David Byrne's “Mudflap Tammy,” at 44th Street and Seventh Avenue.

When the NYC Department of Transportation asked David Byrne to help judge a design competition for the city’s new bike racks, he not only agreed, he was so intreeged that he sent in his own designs as well!

Read the whole New York Times piece by Ariel Kaminer: David Byrne, Cultural Omnivore, Raises Cycling Rack to an Art Form.

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HMK

Longchamp Store NYC Stairs

I'm really digging the flow of these amazingly cool stairs designed by Heatherwick Studio for the Longchamp Store in New York City.

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HMK

Thanks to the keen-eyed folks over at The Contemporist.