Police detain the Black artist John Sims at his gallery residency in South Carolina.
John Sims, an artist-activist whose work often explores the symbols of white supremacy, was detained by police at his own artist residency. He’s the current artist in residence at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, South Carolina, where he’s staging an exhibition that reimagines the Confederate battle flag as a symbol of hope. Last week, four police officers spotted an open door that’s “usually secured especially after business hours” and began to search the building only to find Sims in his lofted bedroom. Ignoring his request that the officers identify themselves, they climbed the stairs to Sims’ bedroom, guns drawn, and handcuffed him for six minutes while they questioned him. “I don’t know that the reaction to him would have been the same, if it would have been a small White woman, as opposed to a big Black man,” Michaela Pilar Brown, the center’s executive dire
MVRDV will break open the Heuvel shopping centre in Eindhoven to connect it with the city, in plans that will also add a music venue topped with a climbable glass mountain.
In a proposal that s being unofficially called The Hill Quarter & The Music Mountain , MVRDV envisions radically transforming the ageing inner-city shopping centre to turn it into a green cultural quarter.
MVRDV s plans open up the Heuvel shopping centre to the surrounding area
The plan includes the addition of a stacked new building, the Muziekgebouw, sat amongst rooftop parks above the shopping centre s existing music venue with the same name.