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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Life in the Age of Go-Pro
Great article in The New Yorker about the profound changes that underlie the ubiquity of cameras. especially the GoPro, in our lives.
Reason #952 to love GoPros: Aerial Waltz
Walzing on City Hall? Bandaloop dancers Amelia Rudolph and Roel Seeber take vertical choreography to new heights on Oakland’s City Hall during the Art + Soul Festival. Music is “Hopeless Romantic” by William Ryan Fritch.
Calder at the Peabody Essex Museum
An exciting exhibit of Alexander Calder’s kinetic sculpture, Calder: From Avant-Gard to Iconic, is now open at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. Forty works, including both Calder’s mobiles and stabiles, showcase the artist’s seminal role in re-inventing 20th century … Continue reading
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Poe’s “Dream Land” inspires new art
Inspired by this sensation they discovered in London’s VIctoria & Albert Museum after closing, as well as an Edgar Allen Poe’s 1844 poem “Dream-Land” about a voyager ship that lands in a place outside of space and time, the design collective The T/Shirt … Continue reading