Ringing the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark like a technicolor halo is artist Olafur Eliasson's permanent work the Your Rainbow Panorama, which allows guests to walk around and see the surrounding city through every color of the rainbow. 

From the orange-yellow ports to the purple houses next door, the city as viewed through the shaded glass walls of the circular walkway is transformed into a new form of monochrome every few feet. The light coming in through the glass paints visitors in an equally strong light making each person strolling through the 150-foot ring into a living crayon.  

Equally striking from the outside, Your Rainbow Panorama makes ARoS one of the easiest buildings in the city to find. From the ground people can watch as tiny figures of people walk around and around taking in colorful new views at every turn.

Eliasson, the Danish-Icelandic artist of Your Rainbow Panorama, was reputedly inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy and finally reaching the perfection of Paradise. He created Your Rainbow Panorama to add to something that was already there (the view of Aarhus) and to make people think about where art ends and the museum begins.

 

















































In 1962, Avis was in fact not actually number two in the car rental industry. They were number four or five. They were failing, terribly. Enter Doyle Dane & Bernbach and their legendary We Try Harder ads.

The ugly, type-heavy layouts that delivered uncomfortable truths tested miserably. No cars in the layouts—they must have been insane! Within a year, Avis had in fact climbed to number two, and was gaining fast on Hertz.  DDB took the company’s main weakness and turned it into the number one selling point, driven home again and again by that inspiring tagline: WE TRY HARDER.

Great advertising with a great tagline almost always has worked. And it still would work, despite what dodgy-metrics-chasing digital no-nothing dickheads would have you believe.

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After being sentenced yesterday to as much as 10 years in prison for tax evasion, ReBar owner Jason Stevens has also agreed to pay back over $1 million in deposits he allegedly stole from couples who had booked weddings at ReBar before he shuttered the place. Stevens reached the deal, which is totally separate from yesterday's court sentencing, with the Attorney General's office, where ripped-off couples have been filing their complaints. According to the Brooklyn Paper, some speculate the deal will help Stevens avoid fraud charges for the theft. A judge still needs to sign off on the deal, but after that couples will have 120 days to come forward with proof that they lost money to Stevens. 73 couples have already filed complaints with the Attorney General.
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Pedestrians walk on bustling Dotombori Street in Osaka, Japan, March 1970.Photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie, National Geographic Creative

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The following article ran as our cover leader in the issue dated June 10th 1989

AFTER the butchery in Beijing, chaos now threatens all of China. As protest spread to city after city this week, there was only one glimmer of hope. The murderous brutality of the troops who took Tiananmen Square from student protesters on June 4th has provoked not only the incoherent rage of the Chinese people, but also a more organised resistance by those parts of the army and the Communist party that had opposed martial law and are now sickened at the slaughter. The elderly Mr Deng Xiaoping, the man behind the violence, may be dead or dying. The tanks massed in and around Tiananmen Square may be there not just to frighten off protesters, but to defend the claim to power of Mr Deng's ally-in-blood, President Yang Shangkun, against more liberal challengers. Even if Mr Deng survives the turmoil he has willed on China, his desperate gamble on brute force to shore up his discredited rule may yet turn out to be his last.

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With the opening of his flagship restaurant on the Lower East Side, Ivan Orkin brings a wacky touch to New York's somewhat staid ramen scene. Beyond the lighter, less fatty ramen broths (a refreshing change-up from the New York standard), he now has menu items like fried tofu with Coney Island chili sauce and roast pork onigiri topped with tomato. Orkin's new restaurant shows the potential for ramen to join the broader category of American cuisine. Read More

Via NY Times: “A photograph of Tiananmen Square that was uploaded to the Chinese social network Weibo ahead of the 25th anniversary of the crackdown there on pro-democracy protesters on June 4, 1989.”

The image — snapped behind the back of a police officer and in front of the flag that is raised above the square each day from a distinctive podium — was uploaded to Sina Weibo, the Chinese microblogging site, before being deleted late last week. The image has also been posted on Facebook and Google Plus, where it was shared and debated by several thousand Chinese users able to evade the Great Firewall.

We’ll have more coverage in a bit, hopefully along with a picture from the square.

The flag-lowering ceremony today is at 7:39 pm, for those who were wondering.

Between the recently launched Langos Truck and this, lovers of cheese bread are living in a golden era. A greasy, bubbling golden era.

At 174 Bleecker Street, where the Mussel Pot and then Slide came and went, a sign in the window indicates that Old Tbilisi will soon be serving “authentic Georgian cuisine,” as befits its name (a historic part of Georgia’s capital).

The sign also depicts a boat of Adjarian khachapuri, the bread filled with egg and cheese that’s been described as “Georgia’s original cheeseburst” (and who can say no to that?).

Of course, we already have a very good Georgian restaurant serving very good khachapuri (it’s called Oda House, in the East Village), but you can never have enough cheese bread. Especially when a nice back garden is involved.

Old Tbilisi, 174 Bleecker, bet. Macdougal and Sullivan Sts.

The “dark pool” that starred in Michael Lewis’s best seller has the 13th most shares traded of any alternative stock trading venue.

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IEX, the trading venue lauded in Michael Lewis' bestseller Flash Boys, is the 13th most active "dark pool", lagging nearly every large bank that operates an off-exchange venue for stock trading, according to data released today by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the securities industry self-regulatory group.

In the week of May 12, a dark pool, formally known as an "alternative trading system," run by Bank of America was the most active, with 428 million shares traded, while IEX was 12th with 101 million shares.

Stock trading, with the proliferation of trading venues and decreased reliance on humans, has come under scrutiny following the publication of Lewis's book, which claimed that the stock market was dominated by high speed traders who are able to anticipate large orders to buy and sell stock and trade ahead of them, effectively skimming off small amounts of money on many trades, transferring billions from investors to traders.

The book followed the creation of IEX, a dark pool founded by former Royal Bank of Canada equities trader Brad Katsuyama, that had the explicit goal of neutralizing the tactics used by high speed traders. Katsuyama convinced several large hedge funds and money managers, which trade large block of stocks, to invest in the trading venue which launched in October.

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While IEX still lags the venues created by large banks to help their own clients trade, let alone the big exchanges, more recent data from the company shows that its market share has grown from .38% of all stock trades to .58%. IEX was buoyed in March, a week before Lewis's book came out, when Goldman Sachs president and chief operating officer Gary Cohn wrote a memo saying that the broader equity market would benefit if IEX reached "critical mass," even at the expense of Goldman's own dark pool, Sigma X. Finra's data showed that Sigma X had the seventh most volume, with 182 million shares traded in the week of May 12.

"We built IEX and all this hoopla has been generated off a solution that's free market and exists in the current regulatory structure," Katsuyama told BuzzFeed in April. "All the venues before us, any one of them had the opportunity to do what we're doing right now, but they chose not to, which is interesting in and of itself.

Dark pools are venues where large-scale traders like hedge funds can buy and sell blocks of stocks without publicly posting their orders like they would have to on traditional exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ. The 45 dark pools account for more than a third of U.S. stock trading, according to Rosenblatt Securities. According to the most recent data reported by IEX, the venue accounts for just over .5% of U.S. stock trading.

Federal prosecutors and the New York State Attorney General are investigating high speed traders to see if these tactics violate insider-trading and other securities laws.

While data on dark pools had been collected by brokers and research firms, this is the first time it has been collected and released with the explicit goal of being shown to the public. The FINRA data covers so-called "NMS Tier 1" stocks, which account for the entire S&P 500, Russell 1000, and many exchange-traded products, which are bundles of individual securities that trade like a stock on an exchange.

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If you saw the poster advertising “free Kim Jong-Un haircuts” at Bushwick Open Studios this past weekend, you probably thought: is this for real? and would anyone actually get their hair trimmed “in accordance with the socialist lifestyle”? The answer is yes and yes.

Katie Grace McGowan – the “invisible theater” artist who offered the haircuts on Saturday at ArtHelix – says seven people actually let her take the clippers to them, even though she’s a self-described “naturally ungifted” hairdresser with pretty much zero experience. (Until recently, she was curator of education and public engagement at MoCA Detroit) And still more opted to get their existing hair styled a la North Korean dictator.

As the child of “pinko” parents and a onetime resident of what used to be Yugoslavia (where Tito was President for Life), McGowan has long been interested in “the relationship between socialism and communism and the line between a fascist dictatorship and a functioning communist society.” She got the idea – a play on the hermit kingdom’s state-sanctioned haircuts – from a barbershop in London that offered a similar deal.

McGowan isn’t much of a barber (“my sweetheart’s hair is now shaved nearly bald because I did such a bad job,” she confesses of one of her less successful attempts), but she gave herself the supreme leader cut and then proceeded to do the same to a surprisingly diverse array of willing proles. “It really ran the gamut from bros who thought it was funny or wild to get their hair cut,” she said, “to a Korean woman who really took it seriously and said she appreciated the whimsy of American artists and she thought this was a smart, fun way to poke fun at North Korea and this mentality.”

In the end, the chair talk was “way more intellectual and deep than I would’ve expected,” McGowan says.

An Abbott always pays his debts.

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This notice has been going around Twitter and Facebook all day, so it’s likely you’ve seen it, but we want to hear from the students in Beijing — what happens if you say no to this “study tour” that “all foreign students have to attend”? Drop us a line.

But even better… if you do take up this offer — Inner Mongolia is lovely! — let us know how it goes.

(H/T James Fallows)

According to the New York Times, Netflix is making a new kids series based on Scholastic's The Magic School Bus, the popular science education series which originally ran from 1994 through 1997. The new CGI animated show, called The Magic School Bus 360°, will premiere in 2016. There are plans for 26 half-hour streaming episodes. According to Scholastic Media president Deborah Forte, the show will feature a "modernized" Ms. Frizzle (originally voiced by Lily Tomlin) and will make use of new scientific tools including robots and a "smart suit worn by the character Carlos that determines his body’s vital signs instantly." Although, frankly, we still prefer the old-fashioned way of determining somebody's vital signs: by riding a magical bus through their innards. Hopefully there will still be some of that?

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USA Today reports that Trent Reznor has stepped down from his position as Chief Creative Officer for Beats Music. He had been working with the company since at least October 2012. It’s unclear whether his leaving was a direct response to the company’s acquisition by Apple, which made co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine into billionaires. Reznor has been vocal about his dislike of some of Apple’s practices before, most notably when the company rejected the Nine Inch Nails app from their store due to objectionable content. He hasn’t confirmed or commented on his departure from the company.

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I have no words for this cover. Naturally, I had to have this book after seeing the cover. I don’t even care what this is about. Sci Fi from the old days usually has some of the most bizarre cover art. From the book’s description I am guessing that the phallic looking “thing” is called the wormway or rather a subway for this bizarre alien culture. I will leave it to you all to come up with your own jokes for this cover.

Enjoy!

Mary

More crazy cover art:

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Venus on the half-shell

Venusia

Welcome to the longest night of your life.

1. Deny reality: This will be fun! (It won't)
2. Accept fate: Realize this won't be fun.
3. Sprint to Wolfgang Puck Gourmet Express: You plead with the kitchen to stay open just long enough to "give you some chicken tenders or something."
4. Commiserate with fellow WPGE patrons: You're not the only one who is stuck. Last time I met a couple who had been trying to leave the city for 34 hours straight. Haha I wonder if they are still at the airport.
5. Regret your past: How did I end up here? Maybe I shouldn't have scheduled a flight when I saw the forecast. Maybe I should have chosen the other airport or driven. Maybe life is full of mistakes that we can't take back.
6. Walk through the entire terminal: This is your home now. Welcome! I hope you like it. You can't leave.

7. Claim the best outlet-encampment that is close but not too close to the restroom.

Outlets next to seats are great, but the problem with seats is that other people will be around you too. Try the outlet under the pay phones. No one will bother you there.

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8. Defeat rival outlet-seekers: Stand on your toes to make yourself look bigger and intimidate them. Also this may involve diverting competing parties by telling them there's a 24-hour Cinnabon in Terminal E. (THERE ISN'T)
9. Form alliances: You'll need someone to watch your back, especially if you're going to fall asleep. Find someone with whom you have something in common. Try leading with something like, "Hey! You are stuck in an airport? ME TOO."
10. Reinforce alliances by sharing useful information: Such as, "There's soap in the middle dispenser."
11. Write and Tweet a haiku about your experience thus far:

Soulless blue carpet
A Shuttered Duty Free store
I r'gret my choices

12. Wedge yourself into a position in which you can sleep while maintaining contact with your luggage.

Secretly hope that someone tries to steal your bag so you can wake up and say, "Not so fast." (A phrase you've been dying to say for years.)

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In 2009, the Irish photographer Paul Gaffney walked nearly five hundred miles through northern Spain along the Camino de Santiago. Inspired, in part, by his interest in Buddhist meditation, he set off, three years later, on a series of walking trips through rural Spain, Portugal, and France. He walked two thousand miles over the course of several months, and, that same year, self-published “We Make the Path by Walking,” a collection of quiet yet commanding landscapes. “I hoped to hint at an internal progress, of things being dug up and dealt with, of moving on as well as moving through,” he told me. The book was shortlisted for the European Publishers Award for Photography, in 2013, and will be exhibited at Dublin’s Oliver Sears Gallery, from July 3rd through July 31st.

All photographs by Paul Gaffney.

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Eater NY restaurant critic Robert Sietsema went to the just-opened Meat Hook Sandwich and tried the House Ham, the Gyro, the Roast Prok, and The Cannibal Sandwich. They all look amazing.

A.B. Biagi's chocolate-chocolate-nibs and orange-blossom flavors.

It's no longer enough to simply shove a scoop of artisanal ice cream between two cookies and call it a day. The trend is now toward the hot ice-cream sandwich. Or make that the hot-and-cold ice-cream sandwich — the McD.L.T.-ization of the form, if you will. At Morgenstern's Finest Ice Cream, Nick Morgenstern sandwiches two scoops of raw-milk ice cream between a slice of Japanese-bakery pain de mie that's been slicked with honey, then caramelized with a blow torch. At Hay Rosie, which opens in Carroll Gardens next week, Stef Ferrari is debuting what she calls Barnburners, various ice creams and toppings heat-sealed within glazed doughnuts, cookie dough, and other malleable shells. And at A.B. Biagi gelateria, Antonio Barros Biagi is unveiling a line of customizable PainGelato sandwiches made with his gelato and Brooklyn bakery Bien Cuit's brioche buns.

Biagi came up with the idea when Bien Cuit's Zach Golper approached him about carrying A.B. Biagi gelato at his Brooklyn store. Now Golper is making three flavors of brioche for Biagi: traditional, orange-blossom, and chocolate-chocolate-nibs. You pick your brioche and your gelato (passion fruit sorbet paired with orange-blossom brioche, say, or stracciatella gelato with the chocolate-chocolate-nibs bun), Biagi splits the brioche, spackles on some gelato, closes up the bun, and heats it for approximately ten seconds in a contraption that looks like a panini-press crossed with a waffle iron. The result: a brioche that's faintly crisp around the sealed edges with a light and airy crumb, and some smooth and creamy gelato that¹s remarkably unfazed by its turn in the presser. You can get a PainGelato sandwich at A.B. Biagi starting today, and, in a few weeks, Bien Cuit will carry a limited selection.

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Paulus Potter, Wolf-Hound (c. 1650)

"To stanch the bleeding of a Wound. Take a Hounds Turd, and lay that on a hot coal, and binde it thereto, and that shall stanch bleeding..." 

Elizabeth Grey Kent, A Choice Manual of Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and Chirurgery (1653)

Man's best friend: loyal, courageous, and always ready to provide you and your neighborhood with lifesaving medicine.

A fun bit of news out of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware: Brooklyn’s own Julianna Barwick, she of the endlessly swirling and jaw-droopingly compelling vocal loops, has teamed up with Dogfish Head Brewing on Rosabi, a special, limited-run beer to be released next week in 750ml bottles, 6-packs of which will come with a 10″ EP of the same name.

Rosabi (the beer) is an 8% ABV imperial pale ale brewed with a standard mix of Munich and Caramel malts and Simcoe and Centennial hops, plus two ingredients that help set it apart. Louisianan red rice, used in honor of the musician’s birthplace, gives the beer a “vivid rose hue,” according to Dogfish, while wasabi adds “bittering and herbal notes similar to hops, with its subtle heat creeping in after the kick of carbonation.”

This is not the first time Dogfish Head has dipped its toes in the music world. Last fall, they released American Beauty, an IPA whose special ingredients (granola, of course, and strawberries) were chosen by Grateful Dead fans. Before that, there was Positive Contact, a beer-cider combo made with Dan the Automator; Faithfull Ale, a Belgian pale ale brewed in celebration of the tenth anniversary of Pearl Jam’s debut, Ten; Hellhound On My Ale, a 10% ABV lemon-infused IPA brewed in conjunction with Sony Legacy as a tribute to Robert Johnson; and Bitches Brew, an imperial stout brewed for the 40th anniversary of the landmark Miles Davis album.

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This is Latabe the Elephant, who the other day accidentally took what must be history's first ever elephant selfie. What a world.

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In Pizza Hut's quest to reinvent itself as a restaurant serving food fit for human consumption, no tactic is too radical. Pizzas made by actual humans ? You bet. And now the dynamic company is making the boldest innovation of all.

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Who wants to eat a KFC Double Down before going on a two-hour train ride?

No one, apparently, since the fast-food joints that pepper Penn Station are being pushed out, Crain’s New York Business reports.

KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and seven other eateries will be gone in a few months, as landlord Vornado looks to spruce up the station’s crowded, light-less lower level.

Chock-full of franchises, the lower level is a thoroughfare for Long Island commuters who rarely have time to stop for a snack, let alone a 870-calorie XXL Grilled Stuft Beef Burrito.

The stores haven’t been profitable for a while, Dennis Riese, CEO of leaseholder Riese Organization, told Crain’s.

With T.G.I. Fridays set to close with the fast-food exodus and lease expiration looming for other restaurants around the station, it looks like a food desert is fast approaching for the station. Well, at least until new, more local restaurants join the lineup.

“They see what happened at Grand Central, where there are trendy local food shops,” Mr. Riese told Crain’s.

And Vornado isn’t looking to stop at the lower level. Last year, they announced plans to accumulate more property above and around the station, adding to their current 7 million square feet of property in the area.

“We’re in the process of turning over and buying out a lot of the retail tenants on the street so that we can populate them with better, more contemporary, more exciting tenants and restaurants all over the place,” Vornado’s chairman and chief executive Steven Roth told investors in March 2013, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Stand clear of the uptown-bound foodie takeover about to pull into Penn Station. Arrival time: unknown.

[thanks to ERIK KOLLOEN}

A new food stand sells poutine that’s anything but routine: when it opens in Bushwick today, The Diggs will be topping fries with everything from lobster to smoked tempeh.

Brian Baskoff was a sous chef at St. Anselm in Williamsburg and then a consulting chef at Empire Biscuit in the East Village before he decided to team with the owners of The Bodega to open what’s essentially a shack on wheels on what used to be a small parking lot next to the restaurant. Granted, it’s a fancy shack (it was custom-built by a journeyman carpenter on the West Coast) with a gleaming new kitchen where Baskoff will be frying up long-cut fries and making his smoked ketchup and his bacon mayo from scratch.

“It’s got a sort of carnival feeling,” Baskoff says of the trailer, which is surrounded by about a dozen seats.

If Montana’s Trail House, which officially opens tonight, is as packed as it was during its soft opening last night, this may just be your back-up option. It’ll be open from around noon to 10 p.m. on the weekdays and till 1 a.m. or 2 p.m. on the weekends.

Here’s the menu:

Fries
(all fry orders come with your choice of one sauce)
Biggie – $6.50
Smalls – $4.50

Sauces – $1.50
Ketchups:
Curry
Habanero
Smoked
Korean BBQ

Mayo:
Bacon
Blue-cheese tarragon
Golden curry
Old-fashioned fry sauce

Coney – $8
Chuckwagon steak chili, cheese sauce, mustard, onions

Poutine – $8
Cheese curds, gravy (add smoked meat or smoked tempeh – $4)

Colorado – $9
Denver green chili, citrus pulled pork

Animal Style – $8
Fry sauce, pickled peppers, onions, diced tomato, bacon

Loaded – $10
Cheese sauce, sour cream, green onion, bacon

New England – $16
Old Bay, lobster, lemon, side of horseradish ketchup

L.A. Mozz (vegan) – $8
Smoked tempe, pineapple habanero “mayo,” diced tomato

Hot (and Salty) – $7
Habanero vinegar, pickled peppers and Maldon sea salt

Dessert
Frozen banana bites covered in dark chocolate and natural peanut butter (vegan) – $5

The Diggs, Troutman Street near Nicholas Ave., Bushwick