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...object-with Eliasson at 40, producing works that require you to jump in and take part in them, to see but also to do. That's the secret of one of the most captivating pieces in the big Eliasson retrospective, organized by Madeleine Grynsztejn, now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Beauty consists of a curtain of mist penetrated by a spotlight to produce a floating rainbow wall. The beckoning illusion looks slightly different to each viewer depending on where he or she is standing. Beauty, Eliasson wants you to know, really...
...SFMOMA exhibition, which travels later to New York City and Dallas, is Eliasson's first American museum show. It arrives at a time when he's the object of intense curiosity in U.S. art circles, largely because of The weather project, a hugely popular installation he produced four years ago for London's Tate Modern. Eliasson covered the 115-ft.-high (35 m) ceiling of the Tate's immense Turbine Hall in mirror foil, added an artificial sun of 200 yellow lightbulbs arranged behind translucent plastic and periodically filled the upper air with mist. During the installation's six-month...
...couple of Radioheads away from a musical New Orleans. Many record-company lifers were stung by the rejection of a band on a decade-long run of excellence, but the real damage could stem less from Radiohead's determination to go it alone than from its "stadium sound at museum pricing" scheme. "That's the interesting part of all this," says an American hip-hop producer. "Radiohead is the best band in the world. If you can pay whatever you want for music by the best band in the world, why would you pay $13 or 99? for music...
...short? Most temporary administrators would not be so bold as to terminate a longstanding facet of undergraduate life. Derek Bok was far too sheepish to get up in students’ proverbial grills, but not you. I guess he didn’t have your strong record as a museum curator. I know it was probably shocking to you to discover that there are some college parties where “the focus is on drinking.” But what is shocking to me is your implication that drinking is not a student activity. What more universal activity...
...fell, her heirs petitioned for the castle to be returned. Last year Ileana's son, Archduke Dominic von Habsburg-Lothringen, 63, was finally successful. Under an agreement between his lawyers and the government, Habsburg was returned the castle in exchange for an agreement to keep it open as a museum until 2009 and give the government the right of the first refusal if he chose to sell...