It has been argued that M.I.A., the London-born Sri Lankan Tamil rapper, should not have to explain why her art contains references to the internationally known terrorist organization familiarly known as the Tamil Tigers. But in a recent interview, M.I.A. called the civil war in Sri Lanka a genocide and compared its history of ethnic [...]
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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All of the projects exhibited at the opening of Toward the Sentient City explore the future of the urban environment. Haque Design + Research created the Natural Fuse project, which wires plants into a network in order to both generate power and offset CO2 created by that power. The project addresses not only power generation [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Starting at the Cité de l’Immigration and moving on to the Musée du Quai Branly provides a route to understanding how the role of “primitive” art in France has changed over the past couple of decades. Originally the Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens (and where much of the collection for the new Musée du [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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The recent exhibit at the Whitney was great, but not particularly curated. It was more like they took a bunch of pictures they liked, and just hung em on the wall. Which is sort of…refreshing? My formal review follows. “Signs of the Time: Contemporary Photography from the Whitney Collection” The Whitney Museum’s current exhibit comprises [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by DeepthiW
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