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“Drawing from a bank of over 7,000 ‘musical shapes, textures and gestures,’ as (Michael) Schumacher describes the mix of sampled audio, field recordings and musical fragments, Living Room Pieces assembles the sounds into 301 ‘modules’ and algorithmically arranges their playback through seven ‘modes,’ one for each day.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
Ahead of a huge retrospective at MoMA in New York, the exhibition’s curator looks back at the work of a truly unique artist.
One of Claude Monet‘s famous water lily paintings is slated to lead Christie’s first evening sale of 20th- and 21st-century art at its new Asia headquarters in Hong Kong on September 26. The work is expected to fetch between HK$200 million and HK$280 million ($25 million and $35 million), and if it sells for within […]
Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood’s American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in California and New York. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Background image via Art Institute of Chicago under public domain The United States may lack an official language, but a […]