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Greece Rejected Gucci’s Request to Throw a Fashion Show Inside the Parthenon | Last Week in Art
Also in the news last week: a Boston art heist and an Anish Kapoor is set to come to Brooklyn.
Hairy, Stinky Tofu Is the Stuff of Smelly Dreams
I went to Kunming, in China’s southwestern Yunnan province, to find the city's famous version of stinky tofu, which turns deliciously sour and moldy after a few days' rest. But don't believe the haters, because stinky tofu doesn’t taste like farts.
Blue Crystal Basketballs Memorialize the Future of the Game
Daniel Arsham overcomes his colorblindness to create surreal fossils of the modern day.
Artist Grows Mold in a Sponge-Filled Room
Watch mold grow wall-to-wall in Marie Lexmond's temporal installation, 'Yellow Interior in 11,620 Parts.'
Soylent 2.0 Shipments Were Delayed Due to Mold
Users started complaining in September when shipments of the bottled Soylent were halted. The cause has finally been revealed.
Blue Cheese Has Turned Some Molds Into Evolutionary Wonders
It’s nice to know that the mold world is cooperating—over several millennia, that is—with cheesemakers to make the stinky stuff we love to eat.
Slime Mold + Algorithms = Music
This bio artist made slime mold a composer, and it sounds like the robot apocalypse.
Blue Cheese Burgers Are Better Than a One-Night Stand
Sure, there might be nothing as good and nostalgic as a rubbery slice of Kraft American Singles (seriously, no judgment here), but let's talk about upping the game a little, shall we? Let's talk about the blue cheese burger.
Explore a Planet Made of Fungus, Stanley Kubrick-Style
Philip Klawitter's new short film 'Micro Infinito' takes Stanley Kubrick and Alfonso Cuarón's space cinematography to the microscopic realm.
The Surprisingly Fierce Battle Over a Scientific Paper About Mold
A paper used against mold insurance claims came off the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine’s website. Hurray?
This Is What Happens When an American Makes a Traditional English Blue Cheese
A victim of industrialization and pasteurization, Stilton is no longer the amazing blue cheese it once was. Luckily, however, an American and a Brit got together and decided to revive this traditional cheese, and the Stichelton was born.