In 1966, during the 33rd Venice Biennale, Kusama staged Narcissus Garden without an official invitation, installing 1,500 reflective silver spheres on a lawn outside the exhibition grounds.
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Tessa Solomon for ARTnews,
Robb Report,
28 Aug. 2026
This separating of spheres feels particularly crucial given the embarrassment surrounding NFTs that still lingers among many art professionals.
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Shanti Escalante-De Mattei,
ARTnews.com,
17 Aug. 2026
Dense, cold lead sinks while hot lead rises, setting up natural convection loops that carry decay heat away to external heat sinks without electrical pumps or emergency generators.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Sep. 2026
Incumbents must convert it into better products and faster learning loops before AI-native competitors narrow the gap.
But the singer’s sense of humor isn’t limited to the giant glittery balls.
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Lily Brown,
PEOPLE,
3 Sep. 2026
In a small room on the second floor of an Episcopal church in Queens, a large printer beeps and whirs, spitting out posters inked with bright yellow tennis balls.
Considering that her designs—from the quirky and unmistakable totem collars to magic floating orbs and funky-fine rings—look like nothing else and immediately spark joy, Ashley Moubayed is keeping disco very much alive.
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Madeline Hirsch,
InStyle,
5 Aug. 2026
Onigiri Time is a tiny street cart in Pasadena that sells giant orbs of onigiri.
Seeing the world through old maps The Osher Map Library, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, is home to half a million rare maps, globes and atlases, dating as far back as the 15th century.
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David Morgan,
CBS News,
28 Aug. 2026
In another Amsterdam photo, a pair of identical world globes, recalling Ghirri’s passion for cartography and atlases, rest on matching supports to conjure that oldest of surrealist tropes, a pair of staring eyes.
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