16 red structures reflect on the meaning of home and provide opportunity for play
Seaport Debuts New, Interactive Public Art, Mi Casa, Your Casa 2.0.
BOSTON, MASS
.- If ever there were an installation that speaks to the times, it would be Boston Seaport by WS Developments newest art installation, Mi Casa, Your Casa 2.0 created by Esrawe + Cadena and presented in collaboration with Creos and Serge Maheu. Creating a moment to reflect on the meaning of home, a theme which has taken on even greater significance in the last ten months, Mi Casa, Your Casa 2.0 is comprised of sixteen three-dimensional red frames, each emblematic of a small house. The structures encourage a moment of play and togetherness while allowing visitors to look through the walls of adjacent homes, offering a view into their neighbors parallel journey. The installation is on display on Seaport Common now through Sunday, March 14, 2021; much of it will coincide with Snowports family-friendly winter games and
A bitter archaeological feud over an ancient vision of the Cosmos
The Nebra Sky Disc, ca. 1600 B.C, bronze and gold; photo Juraj Lipták / State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt.
by Becky Ferreira
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The disk is small just 12 inches in diameter but it has loomed large in the minds of people across millenniums. Made of bronze, the artifact was inlaid in gold with an ancient vision of the cosmos by its crafters. Over generations, it was updated with new astronomical insights, until it was buried beneath land that would become the Federal Republic of Germany thousands of years later.
$5 million gift to fund Lehigh University Art Galleries
The gift from Kenneth R. Woodcock 65 will preserve LUAGs teaching collection and enhance art education.
BETHLEHEM, PA
.- A $5 million gift made by arts philanthropist Kenneth R. Woodcock 65 will endow a directors fund for the Lehigh University Art Galleries. The Woodcock Directors Fund will ensure the protection and preservation of the universitys teaching collection and fulfill the full potential of LUAG as a driver for arts education and engagement for both students and the community.
The fund represents the largest gift ever given to LUAG and will be administered by Director William Crow. Woodcock shares Crows vision that art can be an interdisciplinary engine for teaching, learning, and research.
The Fundació Joan Miró opens Some Direction by Violeta Mayoral
The images in this show, curated by Martina Millà, fluctuate between the absence of boundaries and the effort to measure the immensity of the space so as to find refuge in it.
BARCELONA
.- Violeta Mayoral (Almeria, 1988) grew up in the Tabernas desert, a harsh environment that has influenced her gaze. In the selection of photographs presented at the Fundació Joan Miró, the artist situates human experience in the open air, with no ceiling or shelter, in empty, unattainable landscapes which accentuate vulnerability.
Most of the images in the show are of cold temperatures, taken at dusk or at times of low luminosity. They represent sites that, at first view, could seem hostile. In them, time has been suspended and the given space gives rise to a sense of estrangement, lacking all points of reference. The few features that can be seen seek to mark out and give sense to the infinite quality of a diluting landscape
Rethinking Guernica, the website devoted to Picasso s mural, now upgraded with new content
The website Rethinking Guernica has been upgraded with more than 200 documents, unreleased interviews and two more sections.
MADRID
.- Three years ago, and thanks to the sponsorship of Telefónica, the Museo Reina Sofía launched Rethinking Guernica. History and Conflict in the 20th Century, a website project with the aim of studying Pablo Picasso s painting trough different approaches, methodologies and tools. Since then, the project has received more than one and a half million unique visits and numerous international honors, including the prestigious Webby Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS).