Anthony Roth Costanzo has made it his mission to make classical music appealing to broader and younger audiences. It worked.
Author Archives: Letícia Wouk Almino
Letícia is an architect teaching and practicing architecture in New York. Since 2011 she has followed a daily watercoloring habit. The full archive of watercolors can be found at leticiaadrawingaday.tumblr.com.
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Winding Paths and Swooping Walls Create an Oasis in London
Spaces for rest, reflection, and community at London’s Serpentine Pavilion.
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A Death-Plagued Gilded Age Ballroom, Recreated on the Edge of Central Park
I don’t believe in ghosts, but if I did, I would wonder whether the many dead owners of the William C. Whitney Ballroom might be tempted to haunt Liz Glynn’s reincarnation of it.
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The Hollow Symbolism of Jeff Koons’s Blow-Up Ballerina
The artist’s 45-foot-tall inflatable sculpture at Rockefeller Center aggrandizes an outmoded model of femininity.
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Mourning the US Presidency with a Raucous Faux Funeral
How do you visualize the death of democracy?
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The Transporting, Tactile Pleasures of Porcelain
An exhibition at the Frick features pieces from its collection of Royal Meissen porcelain curated by artist Arlene Shechet, as well as works she made while in residence at the historic manufactory.
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The Abstract Gardens, Both Painted and Built, of a Brazilian Modernist
It’s not easy to summarize Roberto Burle Marx and the many facets of his creative output.
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Pondering and Painting Giorgio Morandi’s Precise Compositions
I wait around in the Center for Italian Modern Art’s kitchen before the tour of the Giorgio Morandi exhibition begins.