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The most compelling illusion in the show seems at first to be a big flat rectangle pasted to a white wall, dark gray in color with perhaps a greenish cast: undifferentiated, banal. But as you approach it, corners appear within its surface, as though reflecting the gallery in which you...
Ever since the ancient Greek painter Zeuxis astonished his audience, and created a durable legend, by painting a bunch of grapes so "real" that birds tried to eat them, the problems of illusion have been central to our sense of culture: How does one conjure up the presence of something...
That is what Turrell has tried to do - and with brilliant success, leading us to question our sense of substance, presence and absence while looking at his work. A wall floats and fogs out in a blue hypnotic glow; a tract of colored light takes on the apparent density of...
To find the Peace Café turn right at the Four Unities Hair Salon, pass the East Wind Movie Theater and head down Goldfish Alley. Before it was shuttered in the late 1970s, the café attracted some of Peking's most stylish youth, like New Nation Li, "attired...
The beloved onomatopoetics of yesteryear, redolent of childhood's long, rainy Sunday afternoons, cannot help recalling that the comics were the popular art that most radically stylized experience. Sometimes artfully, more often not, they reduced it to its basic components of violence, disgust, fear, heroics and sometimes laughter. From...