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Ellsworth Kelly Bday, Russia's Avant Garde, Venice Biennale... And More!
May 31, 2013 Just before his 90th birthday, Ellsworth Kelly sat down with MoMA director Glenn Lowry to discuss his work. Oftentimes, when you finally hear an artist you love speak in person, you end up wishing you hadn't. When I entered the museum to hear Kelly revisit his 1971 Chatham Series, I was terrified of the potentially disappointing reasoning behind Kelly's simple, autonomous shapes. I needn't have worried. Continue reading... CLAUDIO BISOGNIERO | | 2013: Italy Inspires U.S. | The Boxer at Rest, on loan from the National Museum of Rome, will be unveiled in the United States for the first time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York this June 1 as part of the Year of Italian Culture in the United States. Continue reading... | | SARA MEARNS | | Barre None: 'Make Up' Your True Self | You might ask yourself, "Why a video blog that goes behind the scenes of a classical ballet dancer's daily life?" Because what you see on the stage does not begin to capture what ballet or our lives are all about. You see the performance, but what you don't see -- the rehearsals, the costume designs, the frazzled nerves, the learning of a new ballet, the constant travels around the world, the injuries and the oftentimes long, painful road to recovery that lead us to wonder if this is the injury that can end a career -- it's all a part of what we do and who we are. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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