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A Tribute to Gramsci by Thomas Hirschhorn

Posted on Monday, September 16th, 2013

Thomas Hirschhorn’s Monument to Antonio Gramsci closed on Sunday, September 15, 2013, ending a ten-week stay in the Forest Houses Housing Project in the Bronx. The project, produced by DIA Art Foundation, featured a hand-made wooden complex that housed a museum, resource and arts center, radio station and lecture theater, all celebrating the words and mind of the great Italian 20th Century philosopher, who stood up against Fascism and wrote most of his opus from jail (Prison Notebooks).

Nick Cave – Heard NY at Grand Central

Posted on Monday, April 1st, 2013

Why was Heard NY so successful? We went to see the performance by Nick Cave at Grand Central. Vanderbilt Hall was so packed it was hard to get to a spot where you could as much as take a peak at the action. The hall, with its high vaulted ceilings, is a beautiful, if unusual,

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Public Art Fund & Tatzu Nishi’s ‘Discovering Columbus’

Posted on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

Tatzu Nishi’s installation Discovering Columbus provides viewers with the opportunity to uncover and explore the famous monument of Christopher Columbus on a personal level. Nishi’s role is that of both artist and cultural guide, as he presents this statue within the comforts of an upscale apartment living room, styled in a hyper-American fashion, with the

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