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...critic." Hughes, in fact, knew little, and the subject was difficult to master at a time when there were no art history programs and only a single Picasso in all of Australia. So after faking it for a while he lit out for Europe, wandering from church to museum. That experience, he writes, gave him a first-rate education but forever ruined him for "the company of some oafish collector who just bought a Jeff Koons but thinks Parmigianino was a kind of cheese." Hughes began freelancing art pieces for newspapers and magazines in London. There he met a lively...
...show that marked the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris early this year before moving to Tate Modern in London. "Doors are something that define territory, right?" says Huyghe of his metaphor. "But as the doors are moving, and there are no walls, then what is inside and what is outside becomes very blurry." Huyghe (pronounced, roughly, wheeg) revels in such border bashing. His work in photography, film, music, sculpture, architecture, puppetry, graphics and "events" defies the usual boundaries between the disciplines. And it probes other frontiers: contemporary ones like copyright and community, eternal...
...student to get a feel for the various concentrations that our fine institution has to offer. Studying WGS is not a good choice for those pursuing MRS degrees. The psychology department has no windows in half of its classrooms. Human evolutionary biology, on the fifth floor of the Peabody Museum, has too many stairs to climb, and the elevator is really scary...
...emptying it would have been daunting, and it probably wouldn’t have come back,” said owner Paul J. Macdonald, who described his shop as part-museum and part-store. “So we were treated differently...
...Paloma Saez's internship hadn't been paid, she says, "my parents would have liked me to take a job on the side." As a high schooler interested in both art and science, Saez, 16, interned this summer at the art conservation lab of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. For $9 an hour for four days a week, she helped test and catalog materials used in sculptures...