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With a fantasy of suburbs and excess from Paul McCarthy, the Robert Wilson-staged The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, and Matt Charman's play about the chess-master IBM computer Deep Blue, the 2013 Park Avenue Armory season is going to be a theatrical one, to say the least. But the most sensory
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Did you share a quick Instagram at Ann Hamilton's "Event of a Thread" (2012)? You were not alone. At the end of the exhibition, visitors had shared 4,640 photos.
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I'd like to start with a disclaimer: Top 5, 10, whatever lists make me nervous. They feel so definitive, so set in stone, and that makes me uncomfortable. What happens when my opinions evolve (as they inevitably will), or when I change my mind tomorrow, or if I accidentally forget something?
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For those craving a bit of the ephemeral this holiday season, artist Ann Hamilton has hung 42 swings from the wrought-iron trusses at the Park Avenue Armory as part of a new installation the artist titles “the event of a thread.”
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The congregating of crows to mourn is part of the inspiration beind the flock of black box speakers in "The Murder of Crows," a disorienting sound installation by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller in the Park Avenue Armory.
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Tom Sachs’ Space Mission: Mars is a lot like Space Camp for adults. For me, Space Camp represents a forever unattainable dream of my childhood. I grew-up on the Space Coast in Florida, watching every shuttle launch, dreaming of going to Space Camp, but never being able to afford it. I have a feeling
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An animated GIF tells you what you need to know from last night's Creative Time party.
Performance
I spent part of the third section of Shen Wei’s modern dance showing at the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday watching a shoeless young woman (a member of the audience who was, like me, allowed to wander along the grid of 60 dancer-inhabited squares of performance space), stare slack-jawed and wide-eyed
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Entering Japanese artist/composer Ryoji Ikeda’s new installation "the transfinite," which is currently showing at the Park Avenue Armory, feels like sitting inside of a computer.