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5 Ways Biomimicry Is Driving Smartphone Development – ThomasNet News

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Laura Ross Jun 25, 2020

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Biomimicry, which literally translates to “imitation of the living,” is the practice of taking inspiration from the natural world and applying it to human challenges in order to create sustainable solutions.

As evidenced by millions of years of natural selection, nature has carefully fine-tuned its strategies and patterns. Take, for example:

Mountain Stone Wetas, the world’s largest freeze-tolerant insect, capable of freezing 80% of its body tissues for months at a time to survive drastic temperature changes.

Tardigrades (water bears), widely considered to be the toughest creatures on the planet. They have evolved to be able to live for a decade without food and water, endure temperatures close to zero and hotter than boiling water, and withstand radiation 1,000 times the lethal dose to humans.

Birds of prey, such as eagles and falcons, with eyes capable of creating highly detailed images that far exceed the limits of the human eye.

North American Wood Frogs, which gradually let up to 65% of its body completely freeze in winter months.

With superpowers like these, it’s unsurprising that researchers seek to apply lessons from nature to human endeavors, including smartphone design.

“Biomimicry offers an empathetic, interconnected understanding of how life works and ultimately where we fit in,” explains the Biomimicry Institute. “The goal is to create products, processes, and policies — new ways of living — that solve our greatest design challenges sustainably and in solidarity with all life on earth.”

To date, biomimicry has been used in the creation and storing of electricity, developing lightweight and effective computing parts, and building sustainable body armor. Scientists are exploring octopus-inspired robots that can pick fresh produce from trees with minimal damage. Medical facilities and hospitals are investigating the antimicrobial properties of sharkskin, which prevents bacteria from latching onto surfaces. New bridges and buildings are constructed with self-repairing features inspired by insects and reptiles.

How Biomimicry Is Used in Smartphone Development

To advance smartphone development, researchers are leveraging biomimicry for everything from batteries and cameras to coatings and microphones.

The list of natural-world components likely to inspire the smartphone of the future is a little reminiscent of the Witches’ most famous chant in Shakespeare’s Macbeth (eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog, etc.). But the process involves a little more than throwing ingredients into a cauldron and casting a spell.

1. High-quality Camera Lenses

As previously acknowledged, humans are not known for their sharp eyesight. In fact, beetles, dragonflies, owls, and even goats have better eyesight. Scientists and technology developers have long been exploring what the eyeballs of certain animals can teach us about lenses.

The compound eyeballs of fire ants and bark beetles, for example, have almost 200 separate optical units, which not only gives them a wide-angle view but also an infinite depth of field. The study of these eyeballs has led researchers to the development of small hemispherical cameras with 180 microlenses. This lens produces a clear 160° frame, which is more than double an iPhone X’s lens.

2. Longer-lasting Batteries

Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a cheap, biodegradable, and high-energy battery that runs on sugar and has been hailed as an ideal natural energy source.

Another team of researchers, at SUNY Binghamton, have created a sugar battery from paper and exoelectrogens (a type of bacteria capable of transferring electrons outside of their cells). This battery has a shelf life of four months, which makes it ideal for use in small devices in remote areas where power is scarce, as well as in smartphones.

3. Waterproof Coating

Ohio State University researchers identified similarities between butterfly wings and roof shingles. Both feature grooves that help drain water off their surfaces. They applied a similar texture to a coated plastic surface and noted it became much easier to keep clean. Applied to a smartphone screen, this coating will repel water, dust, and dirt.

4. Regenerating Screens

Nancy Sottos from The University of Illinois was the first person to introduce self-healing plastics. The plastic is embedded with a healing resin, which is triggered when a repair is needed. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania State University has developed a plastic polymer whose healing capabilities are triggered by water, heat, and pressure. The polymer was inspired by squid teeth, which can heal cracks by reconnecting hydrogen bonds.

5. Sound-isolating Mic

Insects like crickets and mosquitoes use the tiny hairs on their bodies to detect the direction of sound waves. This allows them to isolate certain noises and filter out others. Startup Sounskrit has developed hardware to emulate this process, measuring the particle velocity of incoming sound waves. This will prove useful for speech recognition software, like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa.

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Woman Crush Wednesday: Ellen Carey

When did you initially become interested in color?

In my childhood, I was raised Catholic, so looking at color in the stain glass windows at church is an early memory. The name Ellen, in Gaelic, Irish, Celtic means “light” or “bringer of light” a prescient gift from my parents, introducing fate and destiny. At Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI), my undergraduate freshman foundations program introduced me to Josef Albers and his color theory. My final project was an installation that freshman year was a wall of color; I did color printing in lithography. At SUNY@Buffalo, my MFA graduate thesis at Hallwalls was my black and white “Self-Portrait” series that experimented with a monochrome palette in the over-painting, later adding color.

Years ago, you experimented with black and white abstractions, so Struck by Light is quite the jump.

Yes and no. As stated above, color was always in my life and work, however a more concentrated effort began with my large format Polaroid 20 X 24 “Self-Portrait” series (1983-1987); I tried the large format Polaroid in black and white; it was not as visually exciting, although really early work was with the SX-70. Polaroid’s instant technology and the soft brilliance of its dyes are exceptional, but when the Polaroid Artists Support Program ended in 1987, I went back to the darkroom, starting my research on photograms. My question: ”What does an abstract photograph look like?” begins here. You are correct, in that it was years ago, and I did struggle. I began with black & white photograms, but when I turned to color, with the photogram, I realized light, photography’s indexical, was radically different, the palette electrified the composition, whether it was expressed in muted tones or bolder hues. Color is an artist’s universe and photographic color theory (RGBYMC) photography’s planet. Characteristics imbedded in our medium revealed themselves anew --- light and shadow --- with themes of interest --- love and loss, beauty and joy --- full of artistic potential, working within the visual breakthroughs found in the tenets of Abstract Expressionism, Minimal and Conceptual Art. Less-is-more is one of my experimental guide posts, rethinking photography vis-a-vis process, this eliminates the picture sign, re-arranges the hierarchy of an image that captures something “out there” to a photographic object that expresses itself “in there”; its visceral and visual, referencing the elemental wonder of photography, inside the black box of the color darkroom, which is light-tight. So I began a commitment to my discipline, a concentrated study of color in art and photography, its history and practitioners around 2000, leaving black and white behind.

How did you react after finishing your first photogram?

In black and white, I knew I was on to something, but color was the key, the turning point, opening the door to my imagination. I reacted to its wonder, imaging this is how it must have been, this incredible experience, for the earliest practitioners.

Did you know right away you wanted to go forward with making more?

Absolutely!

I saw your work at AIPAD, and what struck me when I first saw them, after being struck by the color and vibrancy, was the way they were displayed. Do you often display Struck by Light in a grid form, or does it depend on the space in which they’re being shown?

That large installation of “Dings & Shadows” was conceptually designed that way, 4 rows of 5, as RGBYMC, 20 unique color photograms total; I have done two more, one is the same size, the other slightly smaller. Size and scale are important in my work, as Robert Smithson said: “Size can be a crack in a wall or the Grand Canyon”. The “dings” are my “shadow” catchers, a “ding” is taboo in our profession, and so I am breaking with that tradition. The grid references one of the universal codes in art, the square; the other is the circle. My grid-as-photogram installation has the colors as RGBYMC, a split filter reference in the image as well as photographic color theory, a unique characteristic of our medium, like the shadow. In that particular artwork, the colors have to seamlessly flow and blend, into one-another or ricocheting off of each other, making new colors, hues or shadows. All four edges create mini-compositions, another grid, the over-all gestalt and the synoptic clarity is pristine, compelling in its color variations, with hues and high-tech vibrancy, containing high visual impact.

You’ve worked on this series for about 23 years, between 1992-2015

WOW. That is a long time! It actually extends to 2017; I have more ideas, more work to do!

How did you decide the project was finished?

By project, do you mean the whole “Struck by Light” project? Or one picture? A series, or an installation? I work until the whole image is perfect, my standards are very, very high, the ratio is 1 perfect photogram out of 5 try-outs, some days are better, and some days don’t go well. The color darkroom is light tight; so I am working blind, pitch black, different than the amber light of black/white darkroom. I love making color photograms, will continue to print as long as the paper and processor lasts!

Do you still feel the project is finished?

It is very obvious to me, and anyone who has witnessed me working, that the “object speaks back” loudly and clearly! I have my own rules, what I call the 4 C’s: Concept, Context, Content and Citation (or Site), so it works or it does not. My work is experimental, randomness and chance play key roles, followed by choice in palette and form, like automatic drawing in Dada and Surrealism; one doesn’t know what eventually will be seen, these play key roles. As you pointed out, several decades of printing have helped; the physical aspects, gaining experience over time and time is important to an artist: time to think, read, make art, write, reflect, look at art, travel, nature is wonderful too. I don’t see an end to the project; I just tried a few new ideas. “Struck by Light” is an expansive, umbrella concept.

I appreciate the number of historical references made in regards to this project, dating back to 1834 with William Henry Fox Talbot and noting Anna Atkins as the first woman practitioner and the first in color. Did you want this project to be homage to Atkins, or did it transform into that after working on it for so long and learning more and more about photograms and color?

I am working on a curatorial project and as the curator; named “Anon.” this underscores my concept of exclusion/absence in this new area of scholarship. ”Women in Colour: Anna Atkins, Color Photography and Those Struck by Light” opens mid-August thru September at The Rubber Factory (Lower East Side), the owner, Mike Tan, is hosting this group exhibition.

Briefly stated, in my research on color photography, I noticed that a lot of women were using color, a completely different skill set from black and white photography (technical, expensive, color chemistry etc.), which prompted a question: “Where would women color practitioners be without the work of Anna Atkins?”; often my project start with a question.

Colour/color photography begins with Anna Atkins, photography’s first female practitioner, first in color, with her blue cyanotypes. She also did the first photo-book, predating Talbot, and she is first to use writing in her pictures, a precursor to Word Art. Her compositions, in my opinion, point the way to minimalism and abstraction in photography, in their use of: off-frame space, a reductive palette, transformative power of color, size and scale plus many other tenets in her stellar compositions, no bigger than a page in a book. She made thousands of images, giving them away, so her gifts were literally gifts.

Colour, the British spelling, highlights that color photography has its origins in England; Atkins followed by Sarah Angelina Acland, the late Victorian, who specialized in the Sanger-Shepard process. My research found out that a DNA gene, tetrachromacy, is only carried by women; if they have this gene, women can discern color better than men, who have a higher percentage of color blindness.

So my project pays homage to Anna Atkins, whom we know very little about, while opening up a new field of scholarship on women and colour/color photography. I used my photogram practice “Struck by Light” to include many references: the twin aspects of photography and its indexical, light; as a phrase often used for inspiration, which includes the inspiration of photography, its earliest photogram as drawing with light; that history as the photogram continues today. It’s a record of light seen found in the end result, the photographic object, and with that object, light-sensitive paper was struck by (another) light. As the project’s author, my name Ellen means light and color is light, seen in nature’s rainbow, which is full of color.

WCW QUESTIONNAIRE

How would you describe your creative process in one word?

Exhilarating

If you could teach a one, one-hour class on anything, what would it be?

How to Make Color Photograms that Teaches Photographic Color Theory with a Lecture on Anna Atkins and her Cyanotypes Plus Women+Color+Photography

What is the last film you saw or book you read that inspired you?

Documentary Film: Ron Howard; “Beatles: Eight Days a Week”

Book by Henry Adams: “Tom & Jack: The Intertwining Lives of Thomas Hart Benton & Jackson Pollock”

What is the most played song in your music library?

The Greatest Hits by Barry White

How do you take your coffee?

Dark Roast with Milk - Hot!

#Woman Crush Wednesday

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fizikbilimi · 6 years

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Yeni yazımız Fizikbilimi.Gen.TR de yayınlanmıştır.

Yeni yazımıza https://www.fizikbilimi.gen.tr/alexander-graham-bell/ linkine tıklayarak ulaşabilirsiniz.

Alexander Graham Bell

Telefonun kullanımı hayatımızın bir çok alanında bizlere eşlik ediyor. Artık hayatımızda normalleşen bir araç haline gelen telefonun mucidine ve icat edildiğine biraz göz atalım. Telefonun mucidi olan Alexander Graham Bell 3 Mart 1847’de İskoçya’nın Edinburgh şehrinde dünyaya gelmiştir. Çocukluğundan beri zeki biri olduğunu her fırsatta belli etmiş olan Bell yaşıtlarına göre okuma yazmayı hızlı bir şekilde, erkenden öğrenmiştir. Konuşma biçimine hayatı boyunca dikkat etmiş olan ünlü mucit tonlamalara ve ses düzenine hassasiyet göstermiştir. Annesinin sağır olması onun işitme engellilere daha fazla önem vermesine neden oldu. Konunun ses olduğu bütün konular dikkatini çekiyordu. Annesinin sağır olmasına rağmen onunla konuşurken sesini alçaltırdı. Bu şekilde bile annesinin onu anladığını fark ettiğinde ses üzerine araştırmalar yapmış ve kendini bu alanda geliştirmiştir. Konuşmaya verdiği alan onu bu alanda yetkin bir hale getirdi ki konuşma dersleri verir oldu. Genç yaşlara geldiğinde ise işitme engelli çocukların konuşmayı öğrenmelerini sağladı. İlerleyen yıllarda babasıyla birlikte Kanada’ya taşındıktan sonra Boston Üniversitesi’nde profesör olarak çalışmaya başladı. Ses Fizyolojisi alanında kendini geliştiren Bell bir süre dil eğitimcisi yetiştirmeye başladı. Bir süre İngiltere’de eğitim vermeye devam eden bilim adamı tekrar Boston Üniversitesi’ne döndüğünde Thomas Watson ile birlikte çalışmalar yaptılar. Bell ve Watson 1875 yılında tel sayesinde sesin bir yerden başka bir yere nasıl gidebileceğini gösterdiler. Ancak önemli olan sesin net bir şekilde gitmesini sağlamaktı. İlk telefon görüşmesi normal bir deneme ile olmamıştır. Alexander Graham Bell üzerine dökülen bir şeyden sonra Watson’dan yardım istedi ama bu yardım telefon kullanılarak istenmişti. Yaptığı araştırmalar onun için maliyetli oluyordu. Bu konuda Hubbert Ailesi’nden yardım alıyordu. Bu aileden olan Mabel adında bir bayanla evlilik gerçekleştirdi. Mabel’in işitme engelli olması Bell’in engellilere verdiği önemin en büyük kanıtıdır. Hayatı boyunca kazandığı paraları engelliler için harcamış onlar için okullar açıp eğitim merkezleri oluşturmuştur. Hayatının bir bölümünde Edison’un fonograf’ı üzerinde geliştirme çalışmaları yaptı. Bu çalışmaların neticesinde graphopone adında bir cihaz geliştirdi. Bu cihaz ses kaydetme özelliğine sahipti ve Amerika’da hala bu kayıtlar bulunmaktadır. Kaba bir tasarımla bir detektör icat etmesi telefonun gölgesinde kalmıştır. İcatlarını genelde insanların yararına olacak şekilde yapmaya çalışması tarihte bu kadar önemli bir yere gelmesinde etkilidir. İnsanların sağlık sorunlarına çözüm bulma arayışı onu bu konularda çalışmaya ve araştırmaya itmiştir. Solunum rahatsızlığı nedeniyle bir çocuğun ölmesinden etkilenmiş ve suni bir akciğer yapmıştır. Kurduğu bir dernekle sağır insanların konuşmalarını sağlamış onların sosyal yönlerini geliştirmeyi amaçlamıştır. Havacılık sektörüne de katkıda bulunan Alexander Graham Bell Hücresel Hava Aracı adında bir buluşa imza atmıştır. Bell telefonu icat etmiş olmasaydı uygarlaşma anlamında zaman kaybı yaşanmış olurdu. İletişim problemi yaşanırdı. Devletlerin gelişmesiyle mesafeler çoğaldığı için iletişim kurma ihtiyacı artmıştır. Telefon bu anlamda insanlığın imdadına koşmuştur. Sağlık alanında yaptığı araştırma ve geliştirmelerle insanlara yararlı olmaya çalışmıştır. Bilimin birikimli bir şekilde ilerlediği düşünüldüğünde havacılık sektörüne yaptığı katkılar havacılık sektörünün gelişmesinde önemli bir rol oynamıştır. Unutulmaması gereken bir diğer şeyde X Işınlarının kullanılması ve geliştirilmesinde katkı yapmasıdır. Bir saldırı sonucunda yaralanan ABD başkanı Garfield’in vücuduna saplanan kurşunları bulmak için röntgenin x ışınlarını kullanmıştır. Ayrıca havacılık sektörüne yaptığı katkılarla kalmayıp denizciliğe de katkı sağlamıştır. 2 Ağustos 1922 yılında yaşama veda eden mucit ve bilim adamı olan Bell bütün yaşamı boyunca otuza yakın buluşa imza atarak onların patentini almıştır.

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atsweetys · 6 years

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Sweety’s x Beverly’s

For four weeks, Sweety’s will be hosting a series of parties and events at Beverly’s in the Lower East Side. We will be discussing/kikiiiing/chatting about nightlife, the nighttime and its role in our lives as people of color. Join us every Saturday, October 14 - Nov 4th for DJs, performers and conversations on what it means to have a stake in the night.

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~ Saturday October 21st Daytime Panels ~

DJs | 2:30-3:30pm Conversation between Elosi, DJ BEMBONA, and Precolumbian on creating their own parties, providing the soundtrack to people’s turn ups, and experiencing nightlife behind the booth.

Producing the Function | 3:45-4:45pm Edward Salas, Juju, Husky

Who makes a venue? We’ll be hearing from panelists who work where the party happens -- key night time workers who contribute their time, energy, and money to the collective rage.

Crash Course on Party Going | 5-6pm Keijaun Thomas

A solo presentation by Keioui on Party Going 101, The Function(ing), Self care and safety as practice.

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DJ BEMBONA

https://soundcloud.com/djbembona

BEMBONA is a Puerto Rican/Panamanian DJ, Multi-Platform Artist & Activist from Brooklyn, NY who represents & pushes forward the Afro-Diaspora.

PRECOLUMBIAN

https://soundcloud.com/precolumbian

Precolumbian is a Philadelphia-based DJ, musician, and cultural creator. Her work operates as a medium for empowerment and decolonization and was honored with the 2013 Leeway Foundation Transformation Award. She is currently teaming up with Bearcat (Discwoman) on a QTPOC centered club night and music platform titled SELTZER.

EDWARD SALAS/DJ LATINO POSER

Edward Salas is an interdisciplinary artist exploring ideas of representation and identity as a Latino in the USA through both an object-based approach and a practice of community organizing. Edward received a BFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2013. He has shown in various group shows in New York and was in residence at the Jamaica Arts and Learning Center in 2016. He is a currently recipient of the 2017-18 More Art Fellowship.

HUSKY

Husky is a proud Brooklynite; a bit of a wild card who has been a bouncer and bodyguard in New York City for 10 years and absolutely loves it. He is also an improv comedian.

JUJU

https://www.trendzbyjuju.com/

A jack of "most trades," model , fashion designer, actress, artist, creative director and dancer Juju loves to have fun and bring people together. A hustler by day and a grinder by night, she was recently seen in a few music videos, including Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow,” DJ Envy ft. Fetty Wap’s “Text Your Number” and Wisin y Yandel’s “Como Antes.”

KEIJAUN THOMAS

http://thechart.me/keijaun-thomas-a-black-femme-goddess-punk-nude-and-in-charge/

Keijaun is a performer making performance for the uplifting of black and brown folks: specifically black and brown trans gurls, femmes and GNC ppl-- thinking about our safety, legacies and unlimited power and potential. In her project "My Last American Dollar: Round 1. Tricking and Flipping Coins: Making Dollars Hit, Round 2. Black Angels in the Infield: Dripping Faggot Sweat, Round 3. Whatchu Gonna Do: Marvelous like Marva" She is thinking about resistance. How do we resist temptation, how do we slow down, how do we play, how do we survive? The project investigates forms in which black and brown people hold space for each other, how we carry the multiplicities of being young, gifted and black.

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nancyedimick · 7 years

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Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

(Here is the latest edition of the Institute for Justice’s weekly Short Circuit newsletter, written by John Ross.)

Last month, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, citing “egregious and well-chronicled abuses,” expressed grave concerns about civil forfeiture — and not for the first time. IJ Communications Associate Nick Sibilla has the story.

In 2008, the EPA exempted farms from requirement to report incidents where animal waste emits air pollution (emissions into water and soil must still be reported). D.C. Circuit: Though it’s not clear how farms are supposed to measure such emissions, the relevant statutes do not authorize the exemption. Concurrence: “An Article III renaissance is emerging against the judicial abdication performed in Chevron’s name.”

To protect the northern spotted owl, federal officials strictly limit logging on federal land (double the size of New Jersey) in the Pacific Northwest. D.C. Circuit: Which harms lumber manufacturers by decreasing the supply of timber; they have standing to challenge the rule.

In light of new guidance by the Trump administration, the Fourth Circuit has vacated a preliminary injunction ordering Gloucester County, Va.’s school board to allow a transgender student to use the restroom corresponding with his gender identity. Senior Judge Davis and Judge Floyd, concurring, offer some thoughts on where this case fits into the history of civil rights litigation.

Baton Rouge, La., police pull over motorist whose expiration-date sticker is obstructed by license-plate frame. Motorist: Which is not illegal, so the stop was unlawful. Fifth Circuit: If the officers were mistaken about the law, they were reasonably mistaken. Conviction affirmed.

Allegation: During raid of Moss Point, Miss., poker game, officer hits man with baton in back and elbow before he has a chance to comply with order to get down. Excessive force? Fifth Circuit: Qualified immunity.

Sexagenarian rebuffs repeated attempts to investigate animal cruelty at his home; while brandishing gun, he allegedly tells neighbor he’ll kill Memphis, Tenn., animal control officer if she returns. SWAT raids the house, kills him while he’s on the phone with 911. Sixth Circuit: Not excessive force. Concurrence: Appalling but constitutional.

Lexington-Fayette, Ky., officials arrest woman on warrant for her identical twin, confiscate $30 cash. Allegation: And kept the money after they cut her loose. Sixth Circuit: Which is not a constitutional violation. The gov’t’s interest in defraying the cost of her incarceration is substantial; her interest in her money is small.

Can unions be held liable for hostile work environments? Quite possibly, says the Sixth Circuit, but the conduct a Detroit casino worker accuses union reps of here is not sufficiently severe or pervasive as to warrant a trial. Dissent: Racist remarks, violent temper tantrums, cursing, throwing a file at plaintiff; this should go to a jury.

Allegation: Mentally ill inmate breaks ankle, files complaint when requests for X-ray and ice pack are rejected. Before complaint can be addressed, he’s transferred to a mental institution and put on powerful medication. Six months after the injury, he finally gets an X-ray; he files a second complaint. The complaint examiner rejects it as untimely, sends notice to him at the prison rather than the institution, so he misses deadline to appeal. Seventh Circuit: His suit should not have been dismissed.

Though African Americans constitute only 4.5 percent of population of Madison, Wis., they account for 37.6 percent of arrests — and 86 percent of targets of a surveillance and deterrence program aimed at repeat violent offenders. Did officers’ decision to include plaintiff, an African American, in the program violate his equal protection and due process rights? The Seventh Circuit says no.

Missouri trooper pulls over motorist driving in the left lane (but not passing) 3 mph over the speed limit. He tells motorist he’ll let him off with a warning but continues questioning him and the passenger for 20 minutes. The motorist consents to a search, which yields contraband. Suppress the evidence? No need, says two-thirds of an Eighth Circuit panel.

Federal agent learns that former NASA contractor is looking to sell paperweight containing a tiny amount of moon rock (purportedly given to her deceased husband by Neil Armstrong) to pay for the care of her seriously ill son and her grandchildren (whom she is unexpectedly raising after the death of her daughter). Rather than telling her that all lunar material is federal property, the agent leads a sting operation, culminating in armed agents dragging the woman (74 years old and 4 foot 11 tall) out of a restaurant booth into a public parking lot — where she is interrogated for nearly two hours in urine-soaked trousers. Prosecutors: Yeah, we’re not charging her with anything. Ninth Circuit: And she can sue the agent.

Some men have an unwavering dedication to law enforcement. Tenth Circuit: But when those men are not actually law-enforcement officers, and keep acting like they are after being repeatedly warned to knock it off, it is not unreasonable to throw them in jail for 11 months.

Luxury resort owned by notable person declines to pay $32K owed to Miami paint supplier. Florida court: Pay what’s owed plus $282K in attorneys’ fees.

Weeks before graduation, Catholic college expels African American student who allegedly pocketed proceeds from school plays. Racial discrimination? Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission: The school metes out disproportionately harsh penalties to African American students. School: We’re a private institution. The commission doesn’t have jurisdiction. Pennsylvania court: Possibly not, but the case can proceed.

SUNY Potsdam student appeals suspension for sexual misconduct. His alleged victim told campus police that she did not indicate the encounter was unwelcome, stated she didn’t want to get him in trouble, and declined to name him or participate in disciplinary proceedings. (He was identified by anonymous tip.) School officials increase his punishment. New York court (over a dissent): Expulsion reversed.

Called upon to defend his recent veto of civil forfeiture reform, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter recently told a local radio audience that police and prosecutors can only forfeit property after a felony conviction, which is plainly false. (Click here for more on that.) Over in Arizona, by contrast, Gov. Doug Ducey has just signed a bill that offers substantial protections for property owners. Among many other things, the bill repeals a provision unique to the state that allowed the gov’t to collect attorneys’ fees from property owners who unsuccessfully challenged a forfeiture action. Arizona is now the 20th state to reform its forfeiture laws. (Read more here.)

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Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

(Here is the latest edition of the Institute for Justice’s weekly Short Circuit newsletter, written by John Ross.)

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Hyperallergic: Art Movements

(courtesy LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.

Over 30 artists and writers have signed an open letter calling for the removal and destruction of Dana Schutz’s 2016 painting, “Open Casket,” amid protests over its inclusion in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. The abstracted, impasto painting depicts the open casket of African-American teenager Emmett Till, who was savagely beaten, disfigured, and lynched in 1955. Written by artist Hannah Black, the letter accuses Schutz of “transmut[ing] Black suffering into profit and fun.” Several news outlets published a letter, allegedly written by Schutz, in which the artist called for the work’s removal. Stephen Soba, the Whitney Museum’s director of communications, confirmed to Hyperallergic that the letter is a hoax.

California-based artist Karen Fiorito received death threats after unveiling a billboard of Donald Trump emblazoned with dollar signs fashioned as Nazi swastikas.

A man was arrested after attacking Thomas Gainsborough’s “Mr. and Mrs. William Hallett” (1785) with a screwdriver at the National Gallery in London. Keith Gregory, a 63-year-old of no fixed address, left two long gashes on the painting. A preliminary report suggests that the damage can be repaired relatively easily.

Corrina Mehiel, an artist and teacher at the Corcoran School of Art & Design, was found bound and stabbed to death inside a rowhouse in Northeast Washington, DC. Police are currently searching for her missing car, a blue four-door 2004 Toyota Prius with a Kentucky license plate numbered 722RMY.

German police are seeking a man captured on CCTV in connection with the murder of Berlin-based artist Ewa Kowska.

Several Republican lawmakers, including Lisa Murkowski (AK), Susan Collins (ME), Shelley Moore Capito (WV), and Mark Amodei (NV), expressed their support for the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities.

Shia LaBeouf, Nastja Säde Rönkkö, and Luke Turner’s participatory work, “He Will Not Divide Us,” was “adopted” by the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) in Liverpool. The project will now take the form of a live-streamed flag emblazoned with the project’s title.

Piet Mondrian, “Victory Boogie Woogie” (1942–1944), oil, tape, paper, charcoal, and pencil on canvas, 127.5 x 127.5 cm (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Loan Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands)

The Gemeentemuseum will display its entire collection of work by Piet Mondrian — about 300 pieces — as part of its upcoming exhibition, The Discovery of Mondrian.

UNESCO raised $75.5 million as part of a new fund to protect heritage sites from war and terrorism.

Annette Kulenkampff, Documenta’s CEO and managing director, requested additional funds for the quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. Half of the show’s $37-million budget is publicly subsidized, with the remainder raised by the exhibition’s organizers, a model that Kulenkampff described as “not sustainable in the long run.”

David Fitzpatrick, the president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 2058, stated that President Donald Trump’s federal hiring freeze was responsible for the shuttering of seven historic sites in Philadelphia, including Declaration House and Benjamin Franklin’s home and print shop.

Christie’s withdrew a painting by the late Iraqi artist Faeq Hassan from an upcoming auction in Dubai. Iraqi authorities claimed that the work belongs to the state and was smuggled out of the country.

Vincent van Gogh, “View of the Sea at Scheveningen” (1882) (courtesy Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)

Two paintings stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002 went back on display. Octave Durham, who along with an accomplice stole Vincent van Gogh’s “Sea View at Scheveningen” (1882) and “Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church at Nuenen” (1882–84), told a Dutch documentary crew that the theft took 3 minutes and 40 seconds. “When I was done, the police were there, and I was passing by with my getaway car,” Durham stated. “Took my ski mask off, window down, and I was looking at them. I could hear them on my police scanner. They didn’t know it was me.”

Artist Antonio Lee filed a fabricated report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar Database. The report, which Lee filed on February 1, stated that Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., had purchased Lee’s art company in a stock deal that made him richer than Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Jeff Bezos combined. According to Bloomberg’s Anders Melin, there is no evidence that Lee profited from the deception, though false filings continue to be an issue for the SEC.

A home movie shot by Lou Henry Hoover is thought to be the earliest known color film of the White House grounds. The footage was discovered by Lynn Smith, the audiovisual archivist at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum.

Transactions

Carl Fabergé, “Chinchilla” (ca 1907), chalcedony and gold with sapphires (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

The Victoria & Albert Museum acquired nine works by Carl Fabergé and two works by the 18th-century goldsmith, Johann Christian Neuber, through the UK’s Cultural Gifts Scheme.

Imperial Oil Limited donated 38 artworks to 14 Canadian museums, including the National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Alberta.

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation donated $1 million to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The gift will fund a professor post at the museum’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.

The Mike Kelley Foundation awarded a total of $319,000 in grants to eight Los Angeles–based nonprofits, including La Plaza de Cultura y Artes and the Vincent Price Art Museum.

Industrialist and philanthropist Mark Pigott donated a “major gift” toward the construction of a new Tudor and Stuart gallery and learning space at the National Maritime Museum in London.

The Baltimore Museum of Art acquired works by Mark Bradford, Paul Chan, Norman Lewis, and Ellsworth Kelly.

Mark Bradford, “My Grandmother Felt the Color” (2016), the Baltimore Museum of Art, purchased as the gift of Anonymous Donor (photo by Joshua White, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)

Transitions

Lourdes Ramos was appointed president and chief executive of the Museum of Latin American Art — the first Latina appointed to the post.

Gail Andrews announced her retirement as director of the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Cathy Ferree will succeed Tom King as president and CEO of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites.

Alex Aldrich will step down as executive director of the Vermont Arts Council next month.

The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London appointed Katharine Stout as deputy director and Richard Birkett as chief curator.

Stephanie D’Alessandro was appointed curator of modern art and curator in charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Florian Ebner was appointed head of the photography department at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris.

Manuela Paz was appointed director of development and strategic planning at Independent Curators International.

The National YoungArts Foundation appointed Stacey Glassman Mizener as vice president of development and Dejha Carrington as vice president of external relations.

The Barnes Foundation appointed Barbara Wong as director of community engagement.

Postmasters Gallery announced that it will open a second space in Rome.

Pace Gallery announced plans to open a new space in Hong Kong.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute will relocate its headquarters to San Francisco.

Guernica Magazine will open a second office on the campus of Purchase College, SUNY, as part of a new partnership.

The Centre Pompidou is in negotiations to open a satellite space in Shanghai’s West Bund cultural district.

San Diego Comic-Con International plans to open a museum at the site of the out-of-business San Diego Hall of Champions.

The College Art Association launched a revamped website.

Accolades

Susie Lee, “Exposure (Annie)” from Still Lives (2010), video portrait, 30 minutes (courtesy the artist)

The J. Paul Getty Trust will present the 2017 J. Paul Getty Medal to artist Anselm Kiefer and writer Mario Vargas Llosa in November.

Thomas Poulsen (aka FOS) was awarded the 2017 Arken Art Prize.

Romain Mader was awarded the 2017 Foam Paul Huf Award.

Susie Lee received the 26th annual Bonnie Bronson Fellowship Award.

Rachel Corbett was awarded the 2016 Marfield Prize for arts writing.

Two Trees Management Co. announced the recipients of its 2017 Cultural Space Subsidy Program [email announcement].

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation announced the recipients of its Grants & Commissions Program Award. The foundation awarded its 2017 Achievement Award to Daniel Joseph Martinez.

Grayson Perry received the Royal Television Award for best presenter and best arts program for his latest Channel 4 show, Grayson Perry All Man.

Ericka Beckman and Ian Weaver received the inaugural Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Awards from Washington University in St. Louis.

Opportunities

The New York City Campaign Finance Board launched a competition for the design of a new “I Voted” sticker. The submission deadline is April 14.

The Soze Agency partnered with artists Russell Craig and Jessie Krimes to establish the Right of Return USA Fellowship, the first fellowship dedicated to supporting formerly incarcerated artists. The application deadline is April 21.

The New York Foundation for the Arts launched the first-ever Canadian Women Artists’ Award. The Award is open to Canadian citizens between the ages of 21 and 35 who are living and working (including students in bachelor’s or master’s degree programs) in New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut.

Obituaries

Chuck Berry (1926–2017), guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

Shane Patrick Boyle (unconfirmed–2017), founder of Zine Fest Houston.

George Braziller (1916–2017), publisher.

Trisha Brown (1936–2017), pioneering dancer and choreographer. Founder of the Trisha Brown Dance Company.

Walt Cessna (1964–2017), artist, author, and curator.

James Cotton (1935–2017), musician and harmonica player.

Colin Dexter (1930–2017), writer and educator. Creator of Inspector Morse.

Hugh Hardy (1932–2017), architect.

Leonard Manasseh (1916–2017), architect.

Ray Rathborne (1943–2017), photographer.

David Rockefeller (1915–2017), arts benefactor, philanthropist, and head of Chase Manhattan Corporation. Grandson of industrialist John. D. Rockefeller.

Robert Silvers (1929–2017), editor of The New York Review of Books.

Richard Wagamese (1955–2017), author and journalist.

Derek Walcott (1930–2017), poet, author, and artist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.

Paul Walter (1935–2017), art collector.

Skip Williamson (1944–2017), underground cartoonist.

Bernie Wrightson (1948–2017), comic book artist.

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Art F City: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Anxiety on High

Let’s face it—the bulk of this week’s chatter in the art world isn’t going to be about Donald Trump’s Inauguration, but Marilyn Minter and Madonna’s talk Thursday evening at the Brooklyn Museum lamenting it. And that’s as it should be. Resistance to this new presidency is essential.

Friday, we’ll be participating in the #J20 Art Strike, so no content on our website will be available but for a livestream of Rachel Mason lip synching the inauguration as FutureClown. Those seeking to participate in the art protests can head to the Whitney where Occupy Museums will be hosting a “Speak Out”.

Other than that, we’re recommending a show about soul crushing anxiety and despair at LUBOV, and a show called “Infected Foot” at Greene Naftali, because sickness also seems like an appropriate theme for the week. Sorry to be depressing. Unfortunately, there’s no other honest way to paint the events.

Mon

Orgy Park

237 Jefferson Street, 1B Brooklyn, NY 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Website

Boning of the Thrownes

What is this show? We’re not exactly sure… but I clicked on it because I thought it might involve an even more-sex-filled (or spookier) parody of Game of Thrones. No such luck, but the brief, cryptic description also sounds enticing: “Thrown’ Bones for the pot, soup’s on and we’re gone veggie.”

At any rate, the list of participating artists looks extremely promising:

Liz Ainslie, Andrea Arrubla, Katherine Aungier, Rory Baron, Joshua Bienko, Tess Bilhartz, Kate M. Blomquist, Lauren Collings Schwarz, Corydon Cowansage, Nicholas Cueva, Julie Curtiss, Emily Davidson, Sonya Derman, Rachel Fainter, Elise Ferguson, Angelina Gualdoni, Yuhi Hasegawa, Clinton King, Jenny Lee, Stuart Lorimer, Ioana Manolache, Anthony Miler, Patrick Carlin Mohundro, Dominic Musa, Steve Mykietyn, Dan Oglander, Maria Stabio, Adam Sipe, Tracy Thomason, Charles Tisa, Zuriel Waters, Lindsay Wraga

Tue

Greene Naftali Gallery

508 W 26th St New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website

Infected Foot

Another contender for this week’s best “Mystery Exhibition with a Weird Name.” We’re not sure what the works in Infected Foot have in common, if anything at all, but Mathieu Malouf’s paintings are always a treat, just like this strange and lovely one above.

Artists: Monika Baer, Thomas Bayrle, Merlin Carpenter, Tony Conrad, Michaela Eichwald, Jana Euler, Genoveva Filipovic, Andrea Fourchy, Sergej Jensen, Michael Krebber, Mathieu Malouf, Laura Owens, Paul Sharits, Reena Spaulings, Josef Strau, Stefan Tcherepnin, Amelie von Wulffen

Wed

The Noguchi Museum

9-01 33rd Road Queens, NY 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Website

Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center

February 17th, 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of the United States’ inconceivable decision to forcibly relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps during the second World War. Remarkably, Isamu Noguchi volunteered to leave New York (where Japanese-Americans weren’t subject to the order) and become interned in an Arizona desert camp.

This exhibition features work from the years immediately before, during, and after the sculptor’s internment, and traces the impact of that atrocity on his practice. It’s a timely exhibition not just because of the upcoming anniversary—it seems appropriate this show would just before the inauguration of Donald Trump, who proposed registering Muslim Americans and has plans for mass deportations.

Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York

126 Baxter St New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website

Sadie Barnette: Do Not Destroy

Here’s another timely exhibition about the US government’s repression and bullying of minorities. Sadie Barnette has been mining a 500 page FBI document about her father—labelled “Historical Value/Do Not Destroy”—as source material for artworks. Her father, Rodney Barnette, founded the Compton chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968, and was of course the subject of an extensive surveillance program on the part of the state. The younger Barnette has reclaimed this invasive archive—bedazzling pages like a child’s family scrapbook and enlarging photos to fine-art scale. So good.

El Cortez

17 Ingraham St. Brooklyn, NY 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.Website

Happy Anniversary Roe V Wade

Happy 44th Birthday, Roe v. Wade! We wish we had a better gift for you than a Supreme Court vacancy in the hands of sociopaths, but at least you’re getting a kick-ass party!

The evening is a fundraiser for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and features performances from artist Viva Ruiz (with special guest Bjorn Majestik, drag innovator Matty Horrorchata, comediennes Adrienne Truscott & Suni Reyes, and music from DJ Eli Escobar.

TICKET DETAILS: Advance $15 At the door $20 VIP $50 VIP Admission includes: booth seating, free beverage sponsor drinks, $20 of raffle tickets & fun feminist swag

Thu

The FLAG Art Foundation

545 West 25th Street New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website

Cynthia Daignault: There is nothing I could say that I haven't thought before

Painter Cynthia Daignault collaborates with artists by asking them if she can paint one of their works. Specifically, she approaches artists whose own practices deal with issues of appropriation. The resulting images look a bit like images from a catalog of a show she’s curated about complicated notions of authorship. Yes, this is a pretty “fish-meets-barrel” conceit, but the paintings look pretty darn good. The works she’s depicted come from a pretty impressive list of artists:

Cory Arcangel, Sadie Barnette, Carol Bove, Sara Cwynar, Andy Coolquitt, Peter Dreher, Jessica Eaton, Awol Erizku, Roe Ethridge, Robert Gober, Josephine Halvorson, Anthea Hamilton, Peter Harkawik, Matthew Higgs, Jim Hodges, John Houck, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Margaret Lee, Allan McCollum, Josephine Meckseper, Jonathan Monk, Roula Partheniou, Richard Phillips, Charles Ray, Magali Reus, Jenna Rosenberg, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Erin Shirreff, Lorna Simpson, Julia Wachtel, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Fred Wilson, and Letha Wilson

Two other series on view, “MoMA, 2017” and “The Certainty of Others” similarly play with authorship. In the latter, she’s asked a series of representational painters to recreate one of her still lives, the original of which was destroyed. Those painters include Conor Backman, Jason Bereswill, Todd Bienvenu, Canyon Castator, TM Davy, Gregory Edwards, Matt Hansel, Daniel Heidkamp, Paul Jacobsen, Chason Matthams, Tristan Unrau, and Dylan Vandenhoeck

Brooklyn Museum

200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.Website

Brooklyn Talks: Madonna X Marilyn Minter

Be still my heart! As part of the Brooklyn Museum’s A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism, Marilyn Minter and Madonna (yes, really) will be talking shop on the eve of the inauguration. This is a no-brainer must-see, if you can find a way to get tickets to this thing. They’re sold out.

Fri

Whitney Museum

99 Gansevoort St 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.Website

Occupy Museum Hosts A Speak Out on Inauguration Day

As concerned citizens we need to make it our job to speak out against the new Trump government. That job starts Friday so we need to show up in whatever capacity we can.

Occupy Museums is beginning by hosting a “speak out” at the Whitney, which will be followed by a day of assemblies and actions led by the #J20 Art Strike organizers and Sense of Emergency. Many of the details have not yet been released, but know that the speak out begins at 11:00 a.m. and runs through 2:00 p.m. and the days activities will culminate at Foley Park at 5:00 p.m. for a protest.

Confirmed: Martha Rosler, Kalup Linzy, Noah Fischer, Naeem Mohaiemen, Tracy Morris, Amy Sillman, Mira Schor, Paddy Johnson (yours truly) and more.

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Art F City

6522 Hollywood Blvd 11:30 a.m. ESTWebsite

Rachel Mason, FutureClown

FutureClown, the Internet Avatar of Rachel Mason, will lip synch the swearing in ceremony of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. The performance will take place in real-time and will be streamed online via YouTube.

From our perspective, clowning the entire event is pretty much the only reaction a sane person could have to the inauguration. As a result, the content of our entire site will be inaccessible but for a popup of Mason’s live stream. It’s the only sensible thing to do.

Sat

Trestle Projects

400 3rd Ave Brooklyn, NY 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Website

Through a Honeycomb

The debut exhibition from Trestle Projects’ Curator-in-Residence for 2017, Jesse Bandler Firestone, Through a Honeycomb looks to be a great start to the year. The exhibition brings together artists, designers, and landscape architects to consider aspects of the built environment from agriculture and sustainability to surveillance and labor. It’s nice to see at least one event thinking utopian in these dark days.

Artists: Katie Torn, JaNae Contag, Juan Camilo Rodelo Vargas, Janne Höltermann, EcoAge (Emmaline Payette + Paula Pino), Laurencia Strauss, Sean Donovan, and Blue Planet Consulting

Sun

LUBOV

373 Broadway New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Website

Hard Cry

Another timely show, this one about soul-crushing despair and anxiety.

Curator Gabriel H. Sanchez has brought together five artists from famously-neurotic NYC to “revel in the emotional sludge of contemporary living”. That includes social media fatigue, political horror, and so much more. Yay!

Artists: Ian Swanson, Cristina de Miguel, Tariku Shiferaw, Ryan Oskin, Kyle Haddad Welch

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