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Leopold Blaschka and Rudolf Blaschka. Rotten Apples: Botanical Models of Diversity and Disease “… models of rotting apples infected with various fungi and bacteria. Also included are models of rotting and scabbing plums, pears, and apricots. The exhibition is part of Harvard’s Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants …” More here, here, and here.
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Martin Roth. “from may to june 2012 i grew grass on rugs in a castle”. ” …This state of in-between is central to his Persian rugs on which grass grows “on the ‘dust of history’.” They were inspired by philosopher Michel Foucault’s examination of “heterotopias,” spaces that both exist and do not exist. Since the…
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Charles “Teenie” Harris. Girl Reading on Stack of Pittsburgh Courier Newspaper, 1940. In the current “Truthiness and News” exhibition at DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. Silver gelatin print. Truthiness and the News explores the evidentiary role of photography, from the heyday of newsprint in the first half of the twentieth century to the current age of post-truth politics.…
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Agnes Denes. Model for Teardrop—Monument to Being Earthbound. The Shed, New York, October 2019 – March 2020. “The artist’s original Teardrop depicted a monumental teardrop-shaped sculpture “levitat[ing] above the center of the base afloat on an elastic cushion of magnetic flux.” Impossible then and now, a scale version magically floats on a table top in the middle…
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Janet Cardiff. Forty Part Motet, 2001. “While listening to a concert you are normally seated in front of the choir, in traditional audience position. With this piece I want the audience to be able to experience a piece of music from the viewpoint of the singers. Every performer hears a unique mix of the piece…