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Wearable Technology

Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, PhD student at MIT, created this wearable piece of technology; it’s called the Duoskin, and it’s a gold leaf temporary tattoo that can be used as a touchscreen. Her inspiration? Street fashion in Taiwan. Kao says that metallic jewelry-like temporary tattoos are a growing trend, providing a great opportunity for creating functional fashion. […]

Jacques Heim, for Shain's, shoes, about 1960. (c) 2016 Peabody Essex Museum

Shoes: Pleasure and Pain

@Peabody Essex Museum November 19, 2016 to March 12, 2017 This November, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents, Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, an exhibition that explores the creativity of footwear from around the globe. Featuring more than 300 pairs of shoes ranging from an ancient Egyptian sandal decorated in pure gold leaf to futuristic-looking shoes […]

Under the Influence

The incomparable Picasso once said: Good artists copy; great artists steal.” And that was before copy paste.

Lynn Hershman @ Bridget Donahue, through April 5

99 Bowery, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10002 USA Wednesday–Sunday, 12-6 PM Over the last three decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time […]

Hito Steyerl @ Artists Space through May 24

Artists Space 38 Greene Street 3rd Floor New York, NY Through May 24, 2015 Wednesday – Sunday: noon – 6pm This exhibition surveys the work of German filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl, focusing particularly on the artist’s production from 2004 onwards. Over this period Steyerl’s films, essays and lectures have uniquely articulated the contemporary […]

Desmond Mason, Former NBA basketball player

Professional Athletes Turned Artists

The 2016 Rio Olympics came to a close today with the US leading with 121 medals, China following with 70 and Britain with 67. There is an informative interactive graph published on the New York Times that indicates all of the winnings. Here at Gnome, we want to celebrate the end of the Olympics by highlighting professional […]

It Hurts With Every Heartbeat, Stuart Semple, 2014

UK Artist Raises Awareness of Egg Donation and Fertility

UK artist Stuart Semple is raising awareness of The Fertility Partnership organization next month with six public art pieces in six cities. FPO, an organization based out of Missouri, works to help people around the world conceive through a variety of fertility treatments and services, both for men and women, including semen analysis, ovulation induction, in […]

Subodh Gupta, What does the room encompass that is not in the city?. 2014, found boat, found objects, found utensils, fabric, steel, found fishing net, bamboo, rope, plastic pipe. 573 x 152.4 x 122 cm. Photo by Hai Zhang

After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India

by Bansie Vasvani After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India: 1947/1997 curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala at the Queens Museum, New York, is an ambitious attempt to represent two important moments in Indian art history since independence in 1947.

IN THE NAME OF ART: CHOCOLATE ANUS

by TJ Morey You know your day is about to get really adventurous when the person sitting next to you on a bus expresses his dismay in casting his own anus, and you decide to volunteer. Well, that’s precisely what happened to this anonymous and enthusiastic volunteer when Magnus Irvin sat next to her […]