“Ai tweeted that he received a ‘vague letter’ from Yinchuan MoCA’s artistic director Hsieh Suchen that ‘the decision is made by higher officials’ due to the show’s status as part of China’s One Belt, One Road initiative to build a new Silk Road of overland economic and cultural exchange with countries to China’s west.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Juan Gabriel, Superstar Mexican Singer And Songwriter (On Both Sides Of The Border)
“Sent to live at an orphanage at age four, Gabriel’s rags-to-riches story was as well-known as his glittery outfits and his unrelentingly romantic lyrics.”
The ‘Dance Detective’ Meets The Challenge Of Reconstructing Lost Choreography
“‘Discovering something great choreographers created is unlocking a piece of romanticized history,’ said Ms. Jones, an associate professor of dance here at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. ‘With work considered lost, curiosity compels me to dig into the past and reveal some of that mystery.'”
How The Tate Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Create A New – And Kind Of Weird – Experience
“The team have created and trained a ‘brain’ to a point where it is simulating certain human attributes and unleashed it online – and it is creating a gallery.”
The Woman Who Created The Modern Waterfront
And a lot more: “She and Deborah Allen were the founding co-editors in 1954 of Industrial Design, a groundbreaking publication whose pages look as fresh today as when they were laid out by the art director Alvin Lustig.”
The Books A New Author Reads On Book Tour Can Make Or Break Them
“I’d pick up others along the way. All would be serendipitous. I’m going to learn from them not only how to handle a book tour better, but how to *be* better, fully stop.”
Two Museum Directors From Opposite Coasts Meet At A Party …
“There were discussions of favorite architects, favorite cities and, yes, favorite museums.”
London Can Only Control Its Height-Obsessed Developers One Way
“The clusters that will dominate the Thames at Vauxhall and Blackfriars are not by any reasonable definition in the right place. The meretricious junk appearing in outer suburbs is not well-designed. Nor have towers so far done much to address the most pressing housing needs.”
Rap And Rock Don’t Make Chicago’s ‘Fine Art’ Cut
“The wide-sweeping aesthetic declaration comes as part of Cook County’s ongoing arguments about its tax code, and specifically the amusement tax levied against concerts, sporting events, ‘flower, poultry or animal shows,’ and any number of other ways the people of the Windy City get their kicks.”
What Is The Public Art In City Hall Park Saying?
“The Language of Things is a bit cerebral for a public art exhibition (the description does begin with a Walter Benjamin quote, which inspired the title); like the four speakers pointing inward in Watson’s sound installation, it can feel somewhat insular, even for art about codes.”