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Radiohead Spectacle in Brooklyn Teems with Paintings, Sculpture, Film

Radiohead Spectacle in Brooklyn Teems with Paintings, Sculpture, Film

Even after the recent addition of a Wegmans and Wells Fargo gave the entrance the sanitized shine of a suburban shopping center, it would be hard to overstate the strangeness and surreality of the inner parts of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The post-industrial buildings at eye-popping scales hiss and wheeze, and everything in the expansive grounds covered with toppled cobblestones and disused train tracks has the air of a haunted sanctum. (Think “The Zone” in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.) All of that makes it perfect for Radiohead, which is presenting a multimedia installation, exhibition, and screening experience called Motion Picture House KID A MNESIA at the Navy Yard through the end of May. It’s a seven-minute walk from the gated entrance to the building that serves as its site, past mysterious alleyways and a network of giant silver pipes that are the city’s most mesmerizing source of drone aside from La Monte Young. Once inside, the site itself is large, comparable to the Park Avenue Armory but far less fancy. Related Articles For multiple timed showings …

The Sonoran Desert teems with wildlife. These 3D scans could help protect its future : NPR

The Sonoran Desert teems with wildlife. These 3D scans could help protect its future : NPR

The RAF Exhibit Gallery hosts an immersive with mutliple screens showing FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse on April 14, 2026 at Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona. Caitlin O’Hara for NPR hide caption toggle caption Caitlin O’Hara for NPR PHOENIX — It was about 6:30 a.m. when the saguaro fell and the group chat lit up. Lidar scanners — the same tech that allows self-driving cars to create 3D maps of their environments — had been capturing the day-by-day evolution of the giant cactus for six months. They recorded the colossus as it pulsed with life, eventually tilted and ultimately toppled in the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona in February 2024. That WhatsApp chat was filled with researchers, technicians and artists who had been scanning the plant as part of a yearslong art and data project, said Laura Spalding Best, the senior director of exhibits at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, which commissioned the project. “It was so emotional and meaningful for everybody. [There] was like an excitement. But it was also super sorrowful at the …