Well, since you’ve got a new year, you might want to do that.

Welcome to the latest edition of the Refik Anadol Studio newsletter. 2023 has been our biggest year yet with exhibition openings all around the world. Below is a recap of some of the major milestones and a round-up of the incredible places we’ve had the opportunity to show our work. Refik Anadol Studio’s Unsupervised was […]

*From Jed Perl’s Calder biography, volume 1.

This is a very rare example of Alexander Calder making a figurative mobile rather than an abstract one. The viewer will note that this art work looks like a movable wire toy rather than a “mobile sculpture.” Of course Calder was quite well-known for his animated wire toys before he succeeded in establishing any “mobile […]

*Matt Wolfe saw a lot going on. https://futuretools.beehiiv.com/p/ai-year-review Hey there! As the year comes to a close, I’ve been thinking back on all of the crazy AI developments that happened in the last 12 months. Many of the tools and stories I’ve covered recently could’ve been the stuff of sci-fi blockbusters just a few years […]

*Mobiles don’t get better than Calder, and I suppose I can put up with that, but also art criticism of mobiles doesn’t get better than Sartre, and this bothers me quite a lot.

*There’s been a lot going on. Feral File Year in Review With 2023 winding down, we’re looking back on a year full of big things for Feral File. We successfully launched the ambitious MoMA Postcard, an experiment in borderless co-creation initiated through the ongoing collaboration between the Museum of Modern Art and Bitmark. Earlier this […]

*But it’s rare for YouTube Makertainers to admit this and prove it in public.

*I’m very much in the Calder camp, but I understand *why* I’m in the Calder camp, and I can also recognize the operational downsides of that. *Adam Savage talks a lot about “order of operations.” Alexander Calder is an intensely iuntuitive creative, so his order of operations is to juggle a lot of scrap and […]

*He says these guru homilies over and over again, but he’s actually getting better at it. *Also, I listen to him a lot, and I recognize chaos better when I see it now. I don’t always clean it, because my unconscious mind seems to need a lot of options open in untidy ways, but I […]