Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “Gates” — a ten-year reminiscence

It had been ages since I looked at the photos that my family and I took as we traversed the Central Park (NYC) pathways lined with this installation, and was stunned to realize that these shots had been taken in 2005

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The Book is Dead: Long Live the Book

Rumors of the demise of the book have been greatly exaggerated, to paraphrase Mark Twain. As content goes increasingly digital, the death of the codex form has been predicted for at least the last two decades. Strikingly parallel with this protracted death, exaggerated or not, the field of artists’ books has flourished as never before.

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Day After Day: The Diaristic Impulse

“In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person, I create myself.” So wrote Susan Sontag, quoted in the catalogue accompanying this thoughtful and engaging exhibition.

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Rene Magritte: “Toute en Papier”

Many images created by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte (1898-1967) are iconic, even to those without a great deal of background in modern art: The bowler-hatted man with an apple floating before his face; a locomotive zooming out from a fireplace; a giant comb leaning on cloud-painted walls. Magritte, with the quote above, frees viewers from struggling to understand his work.

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