Archive for June, 2012

Centered in Albuquerque: 1912 vs. 2012

Saturday, June 30th, 2012

Finding the exact center of a city — an unevenly shaped blob — can be a headache. But in late 2010 Cliff Wilkie, a geodetic surveyor, took on the challenge of finding the exact center of his home city of Albuquerque

Levitated Mass: Classic Ballyhoo in Classy Museum

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

“Levitated Mass” is a 340-ton boulder, and its impressive title suggests that at least some of the crowd at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art expected to see it floating in air.

Twilight Epiphany SkySpace: This Is Your Brain On Drugs

Monday, June 18th, 2012

Enter Twilight Epiphany Skyspace, a multi-million-dollar grassy pyramid on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas

Scripture Perfect: Not So Easy in Wax

Sunday, June 10th, 2012

I don’t like things that distract,” said Mark Pedro, art director at Christ in the Smokies Museum and Gardens, a Christian wax museum in Gatlinburg.

Happy Birthday Cake, Mr. President

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

For many years the most memorable piece of Presidential confectionery on public view has been a slab of Grover Cleveland’s wedding cake, a brick-like bit of eye candy for those who visited his birthplace