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Met Rooftop Folly: Cornelia Parker’s ‘PsychoBarn’

April 26, 2016 / Michelle Kamhi / Contemporary art / 3 Comments

Every year around this time, the Metropolitan Museum of Art trots out its conception of “contemporary art,” in a specially commissioned work for its rooftop terrace. This year’s example is an architectural installation entitled PsychoBarn, by the British artworld star Cornelia Parker—“whose work is in museums around the world,” notes the New York Times. In […]

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Kudos for This Student Protest!

April 5, 2016 / Michelle Kamhi / Public Art / 5 Comments

This time students at Columbia University have gotten it right. More than 1,200 of them have signed a petition protesting the proposed installation of Henry Moore’s modernist sculpture Reclining Figure (1969-70) in front of the university’s elegantly neo-classical Butler Library. According to Roberto Ferrari—the curator at Columbia’s art and architecture library, who announced the forthcoming installation—the […]

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