Images and video courtesy of the artist

Yesterday we took a look at Michael Hansmeyer’s 16-million-faceted plastic columns, the material products of an inconceivably complex algorithm. Meanwhile, artist Yaron Steinburg has dared to construct something that is perhaps even more multifaceted: his own brain. In a quirky “Being John Malkovich”-esque installation, Steinburg invites viewers to and grasp the immensely complex organ that is the source of his thoughts, fears and dreams. Click to see more!

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Photos (c) Brett Beyer, by way of Storefront’s Flickr.

Have you been over to see Storefront’s latest show, Painting Urbanism, yet? The show chronicles the work of Dutch duo Hass&Hann, who paint large-scale murals in Brazilian favelas. The simplicity of their show — which gives Holl’s Storefront a Felice Varini-esque paint job – is a powerful counterpoint to prevalent thinking on architectural intervention in the “slum.”

And it’s about time.

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