‘Hungry Caterpillar’ Artist Eric Carle Dies, ‘Vessel’ Returns, and More: Morning Links from May 27, 2021
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Malaysian Artist Detained for Allegedly Insulting Queen, Smithsonian Is Reopening, and More: Morning Links from April 26, 2021
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The Shed’s Fetish for Immediate Experience Ignores the Reality of Contemporary Rituals
Conceived for the impossible task of serving as an alibi, if not an apology, for the $25-billion development at New York's Hudson Yards, the Shed, the 200,000-square-foot nonprofit art space that…
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Stairway to Nowhere: On the Pleasure of Hating Thomas Heatherwick’s ‘Vessel’ in Hudson Yards
Plus, a visit to a piece by Siah Armajani, the anti-Thomas Heatherwick, in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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Flex and Flexibility: A Prelude to the Shed
The Shed wants to be grand. The Shed wants awe. The Shed wants to look like a spaceport.
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From Maize to Museum: The Long-Awaited Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa Aims to Let the Continent Tell Its Own Story
The 102,000-square-foot institution opens in Cape Town this month.
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Can Someone Please Stop the Construction of Thomas Heatherwick’s $150 M. Monstrosity in Manhattan?
When plans for Thomas Heatherwick’s $150 million public sculpture for the Hudson Yards real-estate development in Manhattan were unveiled to the public last week, my jaw dropped. The…
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