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This weekend, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas presents Tony Cragg: Seeing Things, the first U.S. museum exhibition in nearly 20 years of the work of the award-winning, internationally-acclaimed artist. The exhibition will be on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center from September 10, 2011 to January 8, 2012 and is presented by the Dallas Foundation.
Featuring approximately 30 large- and moderately-scaled sculptures dating from 1993 to the present, the exhibition provides a rare opportunity to see and better understand the artist’s work since his last U.S. museum exhibition in the United States in 1990-92. (more…)
Sep 09, 2011 | Categories: Creative Culture | Comments Off on Tony Cragg: Seeing Things
Almost a year ago, the University at Buffalo’s Joyce Hwang installed this twisted bat house at Griffis Sculpture Park in Southwestern New York state. Bat Tower stands about 12 feet tall, with walls of finished plywood panels arranged in a ribbed, accordion-like pattern. The conspicuous design, unusual for a bat house, serves a purpose: Hwang, an assistant professor of architecture, hoped Bat Tower would draw attention to bats and white-nose syndrome, a deadly affliction that has reportedly killed more than 1 million bats in recent years, striking the mammals as they hibernate. (more…)
Sep 08, 2011 | Categories: Creative Culture, Sustainability, Travel | Comments Off on Bat Tower
Still from Renee Green's Endless Dreams and Water Between, 2008.
LORRAINE CWELICH: One of the framed prints outlines a proposition for the September Institute. What is the September Institute?
GREEN: The September Institute is a non-utopian vortex of thinkers and artists that gather each September in the island of Majorca. There’s a lot more supposed connectivity online but there also seems to be a dwindling of actual content and emotional engagement in terms of people being able to be with each other and spend time together.
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Sep 07, 2011 | Categories: Creative Culture, Nature, Travel | 1 Comment »
“Even its biggest fans admit that Bundoran might not seem like an obvious place to surf. “We live on the Atlantic coast; the winters are harsh and the weather is brutal,†Mr. Fitzgerald said. “Some guys go: ‘You surf in Ireland? What the hell’s that about?’ â€
I still love this NYT article.
Sep 06, 2011 | Categories: Surfing | Comments Off on Surfing in Bundoran, Ireland
Image from Tomorrows Tulips.
Just saw a show by Tomorrows Tulips at Piano’s. The band’s lead singer turns out to be pro surfer Alex Knost.
Sep 05, 2011 | Categories: Creative Culture, New York City, Surfing | Comments Off on Tomorrows Tulips
It is testimony to the power of photography that one can contemplate one of Clifford Ross’s “Hurricane” images and see a thundering wave stopped cold, spray and spume arrested in mid-flight, its fluid power trumped without so much as a molecule deflected from its path. The project Ross designates “Wave Music” is, in his view, “a meditation on the medium of photography as much as a photographic reflection of our world.”
—Arthur C. Danto in Blind Spot/Aperture 2005 on Clifford Ross
Sep 02, 2011 | Categories: Creative Culture, Nature | Comments Off on Clifford Ross Hurricane Series
Photo by Adam Fedderly
Surfers from all over the world descend on Long Beach, LI for the Quiksilver Pro New York tournament starting today (September 1-15). The Big Apple’s surfing community has mixed feelings about the event. Check out one surfer’s opinion, Urban Aloha, that appeared in the NYT last month.
Sep 01, 2011 | Categories: New York City, Surfing | Comments Off on Quiksilver Pro Hits Long Beach
“I have been graced with occasions when creation out of destruction has been palpably evoked before my astonished eyes.”—Isamu Noguchi
Aug 31, 2011 | Categories: Creative Culture, New York City | 2 Comments »
