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Demonstrators denouncing public funding cuts kept visitors out of the museum Monday morning. The post Protestors Block Entrance to the Louvre Following Nationwide Protests appeared first on Artnet News .

“By Grabthar’s hammer, by the sons of Worvan … you shall be avenged.”If you have seen Galaxy Quest, those words may bring you close to tears. They mark the moment when Alan Rickman’s character – a Shakespearean luvvie turned sci-fi sidekick – realises that the ludicrous catchphrase he has reluctantly uttered thousands of times does matter after all.1999’s Galaxy Quest is such a good sci-fi parody that it was once voted the seventh best Star Trek film of all time … by Star Trek fans. Its genre send-up is effective and affectionate, with gags about underwritten female characters and illogical spaceship design. It is also a genuinely fun space caper: there’s a properly scary baddie, a spaceship chase sequence, a high-jeopardy mission on a foreign planet and not one but two romantic subplots. There are Beryllium spheres and a rock monster and an Omega-13 (whatever that is). Rickman’s character, Alexander Dane, is one of a group of washed-up actors from a cancelled cult 1980s sci-fi show, now reduced to appearing at fan conventions.

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN YIELDS Stratum PARAMETRIC TIMBER BENCHSTRATUM is a monumental parametric wooden bench designed and manufactured by Zorka Furniture for Haywood Mall in Greenville, South Carolina. Spanning nearly 29 feet and featuring over 600 individually CNC-cut components, this sculptural installation transforms traditional seating into an interactive architectural landmark, combining innovative design, precision craftsmanship, and functionality in a contemporary public space.all images ©Zorka Furniture600 CNC-CUT PLYWOOD COMPONENTS FORM MODULAR ASSEMBLYThe structure by design and manufacturing studio Zorka Furniture comprises over 600 individually CNC-cut wooden components milled from roughly 100 plywood sheets. Assembled into a three-dimensional, layered mass, the varying profiles produce a rhythmic sequence of curves, integrated seating niches, and arched pass-throughs designed for visitor interaction. Weighing over 5,500 pounds (2,500 kilograms), the bench was fabricated into modular sections, shipped on five pallets, and assembled overnight to accommodate the mall’s operating hours.

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Given the 2020s horror boom, Indonesia’s prolific Joko Anwar – who has worked more often in that genre than any other – should be better known. Using horror for social commentary, as Anwar has done often in the past, this prison-slasher-satire features the kind of scabrous broadsides against injustice you see in Bong Joon-ho’s films, and Park Chan-wook’s recent No Other Choice. But in skewering the corruption and hypocrisy of the director’s native country, it has its own likable silliness and raucous energy. As the inmates keep saying: this is Indonesia, not Norway! Fitted up for the murder of his boss, who is found gutted and spreadeagled on a ceiling fan, timid investigative journalist Dimas (Endy Arfian) winds up in the slammer. But murder, immediately followed by the flamboyant flaying of the victim, dogs him wherever he goes: the prison hitman assigned to dispose of him is in turn found in the washroom rendered into flesh origami.

the project combines traditional thai building principles, woven bamboo screens, and a design that allows the structures to be dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere. thomai tsimpou October 19, 2026 6 min prefer designboom on googlereclaimed timber carries its history forwardDesigned by Boonserm Premthada of Bangkok Project Studio, Traces by the Sea is a 440.7-square-meter office for Matalay in Khao Lak, Phang Nga, Thailand. The project brings together timber reclaimed from an old rice cooperative building in Phatthalung and a wooden school building in Phang Nga, preserving the paint, joints, and surfaces accumulated through years of use. The architecture makes these traces part of its identity, allowing the histories of the materials to remain visible in their new coastal setting. Differences in dimensions, existing notches, and remnants of painted surfaces guide how each piece is put together. Premthada makes only the changes needed to reuse the wood, allowing its original features to shape the design. The carpenters assemble the timber by hand on site, examining each piece to find the right position and adapting the connections to fit its existing features.