“Always at the forefront in plastic and sculptural movements, Kosice was the first artist to ever use water and neon gas as part of an artwork in 1946. … Among his most impressive pieces, Kosice was the creator of hydraulic sculptures which used water and light as their fundamental elements.”
Tag: 05.26.16
Using Graphic Design To Guide Concertgoers Who Don’t Read Music Through An Orchestral Work
“The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s ‘listening guides’ make use of symbols and Morse code-like notation to aid the experience of a live performance. We talked to their creator, Hannah Chan-Hartley, about how she is helping the TSO to visualise its repertoire.”
The Paris Bridge Once Covered In Locks Is Now Covered With New Sculpture
“For years, lovestruck visitors to Paris had affixed locks, often inscribed with their initials or names, to the wire mesh panels along the Pont des Arts, flinging the keys into the Seine River below. But last year, after a section of the bridge’s railing collapsed under the weight of some 700,000 declarations of fidelity, the city removed the locks, citing reasons of aesthetics and security.” Now, though, the bridge really is a pont des arts.
What Is Awe, Exactly? Psychologists Try To Figure It Out
“First, what is it? And, second, is there a way to use its emotional power in other contexts?”
Bronx Museum Of Arts Plans Expansion And First-Ever Endowment Campaign
“The Bronx Museum of the Arts, whose attendance has quadrupled since it instituted free admission in 2012, announced Wednesday that it had started a $25 million capital campaign to renovate and expand its building along the Grand Concourse and to establish an endowment for the first time.”
Years Later We’re Still Debating What Shostakovich Meant
“What Shostakovich’s music had to do with history has been one of the most fraught questions in the history of music. He lived through the most terrifying decades of the Soviet Union to become its most celebrated composer.”
To Boycott Or Not To Boycott? Considering How Artists Should Respond To North Carolina’s House Bill 2
“An established artist in high demand will likely make a much bigger impact by canceling than a lesser-known artist would, so the payoff for the risk is much greater in terms of awareness. And an established artist has more leverage – both with the public and with administrators, agents, and venues – because he can draw on decades of goodwill.”
Arts Orgs And Artists Help Flint, Mich. Deal With Its Water Crisis
“From documentaries to spoken-word performances, from urban revitalization actions to conventional gallery shows, they serve diverse ends that include raising political awareness, assuaging grief, anticipating long-term educational needs, and encouraging the resumption, as much as possible, of everyday life. Because normalcy, even when it’s far from easy, is a way of coping with crisis.”
The Louvre’s Pyramid Has Disappeared
“JR, best known for mounting women’s portraits onto building facades in a Brazilian favela and his Inside Out global art project, had a specific idea in mind: to combat the selfie ‘phenomenon’ of tourists snapping themselves in front of the Louvre without really observing its architecture.”
Forty-Five Years With The National Symphony Orchestra (A Lot Has Changed)
“Copland was pretty good. He eschewed the modern fast tempos and loud playing. He’d say to the brass, ‘Noble, gentlemen, noble. I don’t understand why everyone takes this so fast.'”