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An exhibition which explores the relationship between structural engineering and how technology has pervaded our public and domestic spaces is on view until April 16 at the Museo Nazionale MAXXI in Rome 

At the Art Institute of Chicago Himali Singh Soin’s new multimedia exhibition Static Range explores radioactivity.

“Static Range,” Himali Singh Soin’s solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, invites viewers into a toxic, lovelorn nuclear landscape. The show draws its inspiration from a tragically absurd episode in Cold War history involving a four-pound plutonium device that the CIA and Indian Intelligence Bureau misplaced in the Himalayas. Building on a long-term project that counters official history by animating the nonhuman subjectivities at its margins, Soin utilizes poetry, music, anima...