For some time, RECORD’s final issue of the year has examined arts and culture, and this one is no different. The arts have a unique ability to simultaneously reflect the times, give insight into them, and sometimes offer an escape from them. (A distraction from reality would be very welcome right about now.)
The coverage in this issue, however, takes a different tack, as we explore not only buildings for arts and culture, but also how culture, and representations of it—both physical and not—continue to change: the Sphere in Las Vegas immediately comes to mind. Taking the shape of the earth itself, this venue for concerts, theater, and film is adorned on its outer surface with 1.2 million LED nodes that turn it into a 360-degree digital billboard with dramatically different looks. It is unabashedly of our time. Yet, as contributing editor Izzy Kornblatt points out in this month’s Forum, its simple form and fantastical yet sometimes apocalyptic message, is rooted in history.
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