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Colin Raff proceeds into the biotic sculpture room

Colin Raff proceeds into the biotic sculpture room

Nearing the south entrance, we come upon the Salon’s indisputable main attraction...

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Spherebox 360

Spherebox 360

Departing from the human body, first to the abstraction of the size of the earth...

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Choreography in Opera

Choreography in Opera

We see emotional resonance in shapes, space, movement and rhythm...

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Van Gogh became enthralled by the gnarled, scarred olive trees…

Van Gogh became enthralled by the gnarled, scarred olive trees…

In Vincent van Gogh's fragile condition, the strong, enduring trees with their anguished limbs seemed to echo Christ’s suffering...

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Samuel Jay Keyser on Leonard Bernstein

Samuel Jay Keyser on Leonard Bernstein

Poetry ceased to be metrical, music ceased to be tonal and painting ceased to be mimetic...

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Old New Music

Old New Music

New music includes sounds we’ve never heard before, regardless of how old the tunes might be...

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“Everybody wanted to know what I’d do if I didn’t win”

“Everybody wanted to know what I’d do if I didn’t win”

The footage is remarkable for showing Kanye in a private space that is a world away from the equally intimate – but also highly public – outbursts for which he is now better known...

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Rodeo Relationship

Rodeo Relationship

In Genesis 21:8, Abraham’s making a great feast. There’s lots of hamburgers. Oh, yeah. And spaghetti...

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Then Amy Died

Then Amy Died

Yes, I drank at the Hawley Arms and the Good Mixer in Camden, went to Trash, saw the Strokes at a tiny secret gig...

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Way Back When

Way Back When

Despite the fantastic silliness of the in-game time-travel logistics, the promise of historical accuracy has been a major selling point of Assassin’s Creed since the eponymous first installment in 2007...

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A Sound All of Its Own

A Sound All of Its Own

Blow Out contains premonitions galore about where conspiratorial thinking, and the technology that encourages it, ultimately leads us...

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Enjoy a Goya

Enjoy a Goya

Goya’s first big opportunity as an artist came in 1772...

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The 7th Mode

The 7th Mode

Racers such as the bounty hunter Captain Falcon hovered smoothly across intergalactic circuits suspended in the sky...

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Joanna Hogg’s Souvenirs

Joanna Hogg’s Souvenirs

When does a life become a story, a narrative legible to those outside it?

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‘Few vaudevillistes can escape the contagion’

‘Few vaudevillistes can escape the contagion’

Your literature amounts to nothing now Having picked up all of romanticism’s errors, Its writings all reveal the face of Nature, Poor and decrepit, surrounded by great horrors...

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The Chalice Study of Destiny BOB

The Chalice Study of Destiny BOB

What is self-determination in an algorithmic age?

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The insect flew into Van Gogh’s impasto of Olive Grove…

The insect flew into Van Gogh’s impasto of Olive Grove…

Theoretically the insect could have been been trapped in the olive grove or the artist’s studio...

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