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Weekend Words: Piano
On Mayday, the new Whitney Museum, designed by Renzo Piano, opens to the public.
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Bern Porter: Never Finish
It could be argued that Jenny Holzer’s appropriation of advertising language/modes owes something to the Maine-born, physicist-engineer-turned-poet Ben Porter’s brilliant anti-establishment send-ups of the admonitions of ad men.
Art
Language Is Not Colorless: The Amazing Writing of Sawako Nakayasu
Since the beginning of this century a number of poets of Asian descent have published books that have helped redefine the field of study known as Asian American poetry, while challenging the various received definitions of what constitutes avant-garde or innovative writing.
Music
Still Chill
Remember when chillwave was considered a genre? Remember when a select number of elite, unrelated, alternative-identified musicians making slow, synthy loungetronica were considered the future of Western civilization?
Art
A Generosity of Rembrandts: The Late Works at the Rijksmuseum
Rembrandt got old and poor and sad but he never got timid, as the 70 or so paintings on the walls of Late Rembrandt demonstrate.
Art
The Nature of Things: Daisy Youngblood’s Clay, Sticks and Stones
In 2003, Daisy Youngblood collected her MacArthur prize and decamped to Costa Rica. The sculptures in her current solo at McKee Gallery, Daisy Youngblood: Ten Years 2006-2015, covers the work she’s done since, a ménage of animals and humans, clay and hair, rocks and sticks, where the mythic is extra
Art
Slicing Up Eyeballs in a Surrealist Game
The startling 1929 surrealist silent film Un Chien Andalou made by Luis Buñuel in collaboration with Salvador Dalí is now a deeply unsettling video game.
Art
Embracing Old Age in New York
It was in hopes of casting a more loving and empathetic spotlight on the elderly that Patrícia Monteiro created her series Life Ever After.
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Deal the Colors of the Rainbow with a New Playing Card Deck
Centuries of use haven't changed the standard deck of playing cards much. A new version designed by Fredericks & Mae puts all 54 cards on the color spectrum in a fanning rainbow.
Art
Lively Artworks That Make Room for the Mind
There is this one particular color of paint that appears in many of the paintings by Etel Adnan on view right now at Galerie Lelong in New York.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Christo unveiled plans for a new project, two publications explore Le Corbusier's links to fascism, a trove of WPA art was found in a library, and Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" passed away.
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Student Accused of Rape by Mattress-Carrying Artist Sues Columbia University
A student has filed a lawsuit against Columbia University, its board of trustees, Columbia President Lee Bollinger, and art professor Jon Kessler, over Emma Sulkowicz's senior thesis project.