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Uncrate | The Buyer's Guide For Men. DOES MINIMALISM MATTER? It has been the defining style of our era, but now it’s in retreat. Stephen Bayley works out whether less will soon be no more... From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Autumn 2010 Last June I shared a cab with Grayson Perry, one of Britain’s best-known artists. He had just returned from the Basel art fair, where he had been struck by something.
“Everything is now happening all at once,” he told me with a roll of the eyes. There was no longer a ruling style or taste, no common agreement on what is avant-garde and what is retrograde. Today the happening thing is just what is happening. Minimalism was the last, and most curious, ism of all. The exhibition is not, Pawson insists, a retrospective, but an account of work-in-progress. In one sense, minimalism had a beginning and end as (nearly) precise as the beginning and end of, say, baroque or pre-Raphaelitism. Minimalism’s origins at the very beginning of organised European thought lend it lasting intellectual respectability. Flickr Co-Founder Has a Hunch: Personal Data Will Drive the Future | Epicenter NEW YORK — Caterina Fake, the former Salon.com art director who co-launched Flickr in 2004 and sold it to Yahoo the following year for around $30 million, wants to help you figure out what your next move should be, no matter what quandary you’re contemplating.
The latest company she’s co-founded, Hunch.com — a small, eleven-person outfit based in New York’s flatiron district — is designed to answer any question, whether it’s what kind of dog you should rescue from the pound, how best to respond to a personal insult or which conference to attend. As it recommends, it also learns, developing over time unique profiles of its users. At Wired’s Disruptive by Design conference in New York on Monday, Fake said Hunch expands on her experience with her previous employer’s products, Yahoo Answers and Yahoo Search, to provide such recommendations without falling into the trap she says plagues other vertical recommendation services. The problem? Tech News | Innovation News | Money News.