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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 of much literary and cultural heritage. Scroll met the octogenarian Bandyopadhyay at his temporary ...

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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 from found materials that explored how art and the space it occupies affect each other, died on May ...

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 to China, and anonymous British street artist “Blanksy” will appear in a white spandex suit that...

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. Five years also seems to have marked a coming-of-age moment for the weird little movie festival that...