Alison Knowles at home in New York in 2014 (photo by and courtesy Jason Bergman for Lucky Peach) Alison Knowles, a powerhouse in postwar experimental art and a cofounder of the Fluxus movement, passed ...

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Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...

For many years in the industrial automation sector, end-user petitions for openness and flexibility had been at odds with what suppliers were willing to offer. Especially in the case of digital ...