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How Samik Bandyopadhyay built a collection of 40,000 books that he’s donating to create a library ‘There are the books and my bed. That’s it.’ Samik Bandyopadhyay. | Anchita Ghatak Samik Bandyopadhyay, teacher, publisher, writer, translator, and commentator on art, theatre, literature and politics, and of course, an avid reader, has recently donated his immense collection of more than 40,000 books to Boi Baibhav Foundation to create a library that will be a repository...

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Richard Nonas, Who Explored Art and the Space It Inhabits, Dies at 85 A part of the early-1970s art scene in SoHo and TriBeCa, he created Post-Minimalist sculptures out of steel, stone and wood. The sculptor Richard Nonas in Paris in 1965. “He grasped space,” one curator said, “in a way most of his colleagues did not.”Credit...Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos May 24, 2021, 12:45 p.m. ET Richard Nonas, a Post-Minimalist sculptor influenced by his field work in anthropology to conceive works ...

The long-running grassroots public art project Art in Odd Places returns with an edition curated by Furusho von Puttkammer that questions the idea of a return to “normal” after the pandemic with works critiquing U.S. politics and the mythos of the American Dream. Projects will range from the outlandish to the poignant. Lawyer-turned-artist Tootsie Warhol will be in character as ex-president Donald Trump to complain about Kehinde Wiley outsourcing the creation of Obama’s official portrait ...

A New Poetry and Film Collaboration Brings Versified Cinema to OZ Arts Defy Film Festival and Kindling Arts Festival present 12 Poetry Into Film Collaborations May 7-8 Tweet "To Have a Name" by Angell Foster and Alora Young Nashville’s Defy Film Festival celebrated its fifth birthday in September. The showcase of eclectic experimental films managed one of the most successful transitions to online culture presentation we saw during a period of strict social distancing. ...

(CERN via AP) Having been interested in science since my university days, I have been following closely the search for the mysterious, force-carrying Higgs boson, the so-called “God Particle” that gives nonzero mass to the material universe in and around us. If the Higgs did not exist, we would be diaphanous wraiths floating somewhere in the vacuum of space, virtual creatures popping in and out of existence like quarks and leptons, quantum nonentities. Of course, we rarely think about the H...

Editors Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Talk With Jordan Casteel to Rashid Johnson at Storm King Plus, check out a sexual justice symposium at the New School and an NFT art fair with an enormously long and complicated name. Ayana Evans from "Crowning Series" (2019). Photo courtesy of the New School. Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting events i...

Newark unveils homeless shelter made from converted shipping containers Updated Mar 09, 2021; Posted Mar 08, 2021 Newark Hope Village, an innovative sheltering program that uses shipping containers to house residents at-risk or without addresses. Monday, March 8, 2021. Newark, N.J. USA (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media) Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media Facebook Share Newark Homelessness Czar Sakinah Hoyte held back tears as she unvield a lot filled with seven converted sh...

N.J. city unveils homeless shelter made from converted shipping containers Updated Mar 08, 2021; Posted Mar 08, 2021 Newark Hope Village, an innovative sheltering program that uses shipping containers to house residents at-risk or without addresses. Monday, March 8, 2021. Newark, N.J. USA (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media) Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media Facebook Share Newark Homelessness Czar Sakinah Hoyte held back tears as she unvield a lot filled with seven converted...

La 5e édition de Less Is More annonce sa sélection Les participants à Less Is More 2021 La cinquième édition de Less Is More (LIM), le programme européen de développement de longs métrages de fiction à budget limité, a annoncé sa sélection. Elle se compose de 16 projets de scénario et de 12 "development angels". En dépit de cette période de crise, 350 candidats, issus de plus de 70 pays, parmi lesquels quelques nouveaux venus, ont répondu à l’appel. LIM est un programme de...