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Installation view of “Vito Acconci: Where Are We Now (Who Are We Anyway?), 1976,” 2016, MoMA PS1. PABLO ENRIQUEZ/COURTESY ACCONCI STUDIO AND MOMA PS1 In honor of MoMA PS1’s show “Vito Acconci: Where Are We Now (Who Are We Anyway?), 1976,” which looks at the first few years of the performance and video artist’s career, we turn back to 1972, when Acconci had one of his most famous shows, at Sonnabend Gallery in New York. At that exhibition, Acconci debuted  Seed Bed , a performance in which he lay under a sloped floor he built in the gallery and masturbated to the thought of visitors above him. Below is April Kingsley’s review of the Sonnabend show. Last month, Phyllis Tuchman  interviewed Acconci  for these pages. “Reviews and Previews” By April Kingsley March 1972 Vito Acconci’s disturbing exhibition was comprised of distinct performance situations and a film showing past performances. In Room A ( Seed Bed ) Acconci lay hidden beneath a room-size...

OFF THE RECORD What Scientists Just Found Deep In The Ocean Is Seriously Unbelievable. I’m Still In Shock! 12188 SHARES Off the coast of Egypt divers have discovered something that was thought to be lost a long time ago. It was said that the ancient city of Heracleion was lost under the sea for good. Well 1200 years later, off the bay of Aboukir, this ancient city has finally been discovered. The city dates back to the 6th century B.C. and holds some of the most beautiful artifacts you could imagine. Things like grand statues of gods and goddesses standing well over 15 feet tall and carved out of red granite, treasures of gold and rare stones, elaborate temples and enormous tablets. This find is enormous in the historical preservation community and has been commissioned by museums around the world. Take a look at this incredible city found underwater. This is diver Franck Goddio examining the enormous hand carved statue of a pharaoh. This sta...

Proteins move diffusively along the microtubules. Credit: C. Hohmann, NIM The cell's internal skeleton undergoes constant restructuring. LMU physicists now show that its constituent proteins can be efficiently transported to their sites of action by diffusion – provided they can be arrested when they get there. The cells of higher organisms are stabilized by an internal skeleton, known as the cytoskeleton, which is made up of several families of proteins that form fibrous polymers. Members of one of these families polymerize to form so-called  microtubules , which are essential for many cellular processes. To perform its many functions adequately, the cytoskeleton undergoes constant, dynamic restructuring under the influence of an array of regulatory proteins which, for instance, regulate the polymerization and depolymerization of the subunits that make up the microtubules. With the aid of a new theoretical model, researchers led by LMU biophysicist Erwin Frey have come ...