In the past couple of weeks three alumni have made The Nifty 50, the New York Times Style Magazine’s list of top up-and-coming talent in America. Sculptor Huma Bhabha ’85 PR, whose work is included in the upcoming Whitney Biennial, is the latest to be profiled in T’s intriguing round-up, which applauds her as “the art world’s most exciting Dumpster diver.”

In an earlier Nifty 50 piece, photographer David Benjamin Sherry ’03 PH notes that “since the economic meltdown, …we can’t go back and make work in this sensational money, money, money way. It’s a new era.” In another, furniture designer and fellow Brooklynite Paul Loebach ’02 ID points to “the ‘blobjects’ of the ’90s” as evidence for why he plans to continue drawing and making stuff out of wood. While technology can be very liberating, he told T’s reporter, design devoid of the human element is destined to fail.