“[W]hile the added room will be welcome, almost more important for curators has been the opportunity to do what large, encyclopedic museums almost never get to do: completely take apart and put back together a vast permanent collection, and in so doing retell the story of art through its holdings.”
Tag: 05.26.10
Is East Coast Elitism, Or Worse, Root Of Dudamel Reviews?
“Critics have the obligation of judging creative work by a set of standards, of allowing emotion or the crowd approval to be, at best, one variable in their judgment. But some seemed to bend themselves in elaborate contortions during this tour to parry the elation and thunderous ovations that greeted the feckless horde from L.A.”
Forty Years Of Eiko And Koma
“They met in 1971 in Tatsumi Hijikata’s dance studio in Tokyo and are now two of the most venerated artists in the dance world. While the moving-painting quality of their choreography is profoundly arresting, … [you] connect to their world not by watching, but by imagining that you are living inside their bodies.”
Seeing Religion, Secularism And Militarism Collide In Istanbul’s Museums
Hagia Sophia famously layers Islam over Byzantine Christianity, though its treasures were carted off by Crusaders, not Turks. Topkapi Palace, the seat of the Ottomans’ Islamic state, is just a short distance from the Military Museum, which looks at a millennium of Turkish history through the rigidly secular lens of Atatürk’s ideology. And so it goes …
Whitney Museum Decides To Move Downtown
The museum’s board “voted on Tuesday afternoon to begin construction on a building in the meatpacking district in Manhattan, to be completed by 2015, that will vastly increase the size and scope of the museum.”