Posts Tagged ‘Design’

Ambassador for the Art of Performance

Colin Gee, whose work hovers between physical theater and dance, is an intriguing choice for a performing artist in residence at the Whitney Museum.

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    Go Ahead, Play With (and on) the Art

    With a city park installation, an artist blurs distinctions between sculpture and environment.

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      Exhibition Review | Allison Maher Stern Snow Leopard Exhibit: Leopards in the Mist

      A $10.6 million installation at the Central Park Zoo presents snow leopards in a habitat that maintains the illusion of their natural world.

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        Remaking Paris

        President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has called for a post-Kyoto urban plan that re-envisions the old city. Is this the 21st-century metropolis?

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          Inside Art: A Thriftier Lot Comes to Basel This Year

          When collectors asked for a price at Art Basel, which opened on Tuesday, the answer usually included the word “negotiable.”

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            Art Review | Gord Peteran: Close Encounters With Tableness and Chairness

            The Museum of Arts and Design’s retrospective of Gord Peteran, furniture maker and sculptor, offers both intriguing and puzzling pieces of his work.

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              Arts, Briefly: Greece Declines Loan of Elgin Marbles

              The Greek government on Thursday declined an offer from the British Museum to loan Greece the long disputed collection widely known as the Elgin Marbles, Agence France-Presse reported.

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                Paris Journal: A Paris Plan, Less Grand Than Gritty

                France’s president has scaled back his ambition to redesign Paris, but still plans to improve the city’s transportation and housing stock.

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                  06 2009

                  Abroad: Small World Crammed on Biennale’s Grand Stage

                  The 53rd Venice Biennale is tidy, disciplined, cautious and unremarkable, suggesting a somewhat dull, deflated contemporary art world, professionalized to a fault, in search of a fresh consensus.

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                    Museum Review | Derfner Judaica Museum: Jewish Art, the Hudson and Bingo in the Bronx

                    The new 5,000-square-foot Derfner Judaica Museum, with a collection of artifacts that goes back centuries, will open Friday at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale.

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                      Museum Review | Derfner Judaica Museum: Jewish Art, the Hudson and Bingo in the Bronx

                      The new 5,000-square-foot Derfner Judaica Museum, with a collection of artifacts that goes back centuries, will open Friday at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale.

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                        06 2009

                        Two Shot at Holocaust Museum in D.C., Police Say

                        An armed man who began shooting in the museum and a guard who returned fire were wounded, the police said.

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                          Robert Colescott, Painter Who Toyed With Race and Sex, Dies at 83

                          Mr. Colescott’s garishly powerful canvases lampooned racial and sexual stereotypes with rakish imagery, lurid colors and tangible glee.

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