Museum Review : By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
NEW ORLEANS — What is it about these creatures? In the new $25 million Audubon Insectarium, which opened here in June, you can watch Formosan termites eat through a wooden skyline of New Orleans (as if this city didn’t have enough problems), stick your head into a transparent dome in […]
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 by admin
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By CAROL VOGEL : A rectangular patch of sand in Central Park may be the last place you’d expect to find a gleaming “Star Trek”-style spacecraft. But an art pavilion that resembles just that will make a temporary landing there this fall.
Called Mobile Art, the structure itself was designed by the renowned London architect Zaha […]
Posted on July 24th, 2008 by admin
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Art Review: By ROBERTA SMITH
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “J. M. W. Turner” is a beast of a show. With nearly 150 works in oil and watercolor spanning more than half a century, it will either win you over or wear you out. Or it will alternate, gallery by gallery, or wall by wall, as […]
Posted on July 5th, 2008 by admin
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Design Review | Buckminster Fuller : By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Cold war culture has been back in style for a while now, at least in architecture circles. The clarity of its Manichaean worldview, in which everyone seemed to know who the bad guys were, is a comforting refuge from our current ideological confusion. And the era’s brooding […]
Posted on July 4th, 2008 by admin
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Art Review : By HOLLAND COTTER
Spirals abound in Louise Bourgeois’s art. She says they make her think of control and freedom, and of strangling someone. So it’s perfect that her retrospective, seen in London and Paris, is now in the looping rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum. It looks great there, clean but organic — fecund, […]
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by admin
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By RANDY KENNEDY
In the early 1970s, the artist Chris Burden pioneered a kind of sculpture that explored boundaries few people would care even to approach. The basic material was his body, and the work involved what he or others could do with it or to it.
The most infamous pieces, “Shoot” and “Trans-fixed,” were accurately titled. […]
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by admin
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