Art and Museums
The Young Vermeer; The Revenge of a Forger and Shopping at the Museum
These early works are quite different from the richly decorated interiors with attractive women you might expect from Vermeer. Instead they depict a mythological subject, a story from the Bible and a brothel scene. more »
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Starn Brothers Present Big Bambú: You Can’t, You Won’t, and You Don’t Stop (April 27 — October 31, 2010)
A work in progress, Big Bambú will continue to grow over the next several months until it resembles a 50-foot-tall cresting wave. Hand-assembled by the artists themselves and a team of 20-odd rock climbers from New Paltz, New York, using fresh-cut bamboo poles from Georgia and South Carolina, this urban grove is supposed to be "a microcosm of life itself in which everything is interdependent and changing." more »
The Wellcome Collection; A Destination for the Incurably Curious
Vienna in 1900 was a city obsessed with the mind. Political unrest had left the Viennese with an overwhelming sense that they were living in 'nervous times'. Anxieties about mental health were allied to fears about the modern city. more »
Exploded City, From the Future
We are made to see these places that for most of us never existed in our consciousness, and how they connect to ourselves, in concrete terms of war or policy and in abstract terms of fear and empathy. In these moments, the variables of distance, speed, and time that keep us from knowing these places through our own experience collapse. more »
