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Not-art is the new Art
By Stefan Talman | March 2The cab drivers in New York, I am told, were most angry about Jean-Claude and Christo's "The Gates" project in Central Park.
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Calder sculpture 'Tripes' appears on Front Green
By Stefan Talman | November 14There's a new sculpture tucked away in a corner of the Front Green, fairly close to Hope College. It's big, black and wavy. It looks angry. And it's by Alexander Calder.
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MCM film series showcases obscure yet worthwhile cinema
By Stefan Talman | October 28The Modern Culture and Media Cinemateque Film Series exists. That is its brilliance. This is not to say that every film is brilliant or that the entire department is a bastion of brilliance - though some might dispute this. And it is not to toss "brilliance" about with disregard, denigrating its meaning. ...
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Photographer Deana Lawson makes brilliant mistakes
By Stefan Talman | October 17On occasion a mistake comes to pass. Deana Lawson's photography show, "Matters of Grace," is full of mistakes. It is riddled with them.
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Sol LeWitt's work, idea, practice exhibited at RISD Museum
By Stefan Talman | September 20Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt gained fame in the 1960s, but he's not one to languish as an art celebrity. Rather, his work still vibrates with pleasure, energy and, most of all, ideas, now manifest in an exhibition at the RISD Museum.
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Thought-provoking work overcomes pretentious trappings at Bell Gallery
By Stefan Talman | September 16"InVisible Silence" opened last Friday at the David Winton Bell Gallery. Initially, I wanted to say that the show was absolute bunk. This was an entirely visceral reaction, ironic for a show whose catalog begins with the quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, stating, "There is no intelligible world, there ...
