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It Takes a Village (of Designers)
Watch out for Colorbots this month. No, we’re not talking about the assistants in Diane Von Furstenberg’s fashion studio. Rather, people will maneuver these small robots to create a large-scale work of art during the Parsons Festival. Each year, thousands of students bustle through the classrooms and studio spaces at Parsons The New School for Design —pursuing higher...
Factory Finish
Pedestrians walking through Union Square might not know that the nondescript building at Broadway and East 17th Street was actually Andy Warhol’s famous Factory, the epicenter of his mass-market Pop Art industry. They probably don’t know that he used to stand on the street corner handing out copies of Interview magazine to the drug addicts...
Art Never Ages
Carter Burden Center for the Aging’s Gallery 307 gives professional older artists another look Arnold Wechsler’s colorful, dreadlocked Rastafarian-like portrait is painted on a wall of Gallery 307. Titled “Elvis Presley at Burning Man,” it was inspired by Wechsler’s recent trip to the annual desert art festival. What makes this piece particularly interesting is not...
Found in Translation
English opera singer Mark Glanville’s most ambitious idea came to him in the middle of the night three years ago—to take Schubert’s song cycle, Die Winterreise, what he called “the greatest song cycle that’s ever been written,” and reinvent it in a Yiddish context.
