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SALON (LONDON) presents Not for Sale
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Beautiful Propaganda: the myth of the Large Hadron Collider

An Op-Ed for Domus on how to read images of the LHC as more than just aesthetic eye candy

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Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing

Review of Jason Griffiths' beguiling book, Manifest Destiny.

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Digital Food

A feature on the future of food from the February 2012 issue of Icon.

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Worth Abbey by Thomas Heatherwick

News story about the refurbishment of Frances Pollen's Worth Abbey Church by Thomas Heatherwick

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Review of Lumiere Festival, Durham

My review of the wonderful Lumiere, festival of lights, held in Durham in November

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Gwangju Design Biennale

I served as Associate Curator of the Communities section for the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, which ran ...

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For Icon's 100th

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Repurpose: Space for the Arts

Food designers Blanch & Shock together with curator Anne Forgan produced the Repurpose document as a ...

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The London High Street Possibilities Primer

A collaborative project by Design for London and the Outer London Fund which collates exemplary projects ...

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Portfolio

  • Beautiful Propaganda: the myth of the Large Hadron Collider
  • Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing
  • Digital Food
  • Worth Abbey by Thomas Heatherwick
  • Review of Lumiere Festival, Durham
  • Gwangju Design Biennale
  • Err, Jeremy Hutchison
  • Repurpose: Space for the Arts
  • The London High Street Possibilities Primer
  • Grammar of the Ornament Talk at Hoxton Art Gallery
  • Le Cool
  • Beaux Arts Ball
  • The Filling Station
  • SALON (LONDON) presents Secret
  • SALON (LONDON) presents Not for Sale
  • Bone Dinner review
  • The Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize
  • Cliché-ridden claptrap: Venice Biennale 2011
  • The Architecture of London Fashion Week – Icon, May 2011
  • Food is Food is Not Food

About

Crystal Bennes

Critic, Curator, Writer & Sometime Academic

I do: architecture and design; art criticism; cultural theory; food and drink, particularly breakfast and cocktails; classics and classical reception, especially Latin literature and aesthetics; eighteenth-century French literature.

mailto: hello@crystalbennes.com

Recent Posts

  • LHC_CB

    Beautiful Propaganda: the myth of the Large Hadron Collider

  • manifest cover

    Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing

  • future of food_icon

    Digital Food

  • worth abbey

    Worth Abbey by Thomas Heatherwick

  • Light Parade

    Review of Lumiere Festival, Durham

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