Big Edge in Vegas
Corporate Art Goes Public at City Center
Envisioned by developers MGM Mirage and Infinity World Development Corp, a subsidiary of Dubai World, City Center in Las Vegas boasts a $40 million art collection focused on 15 major works by modern and contemporary artists: Jenny Holzer, Nancy Rubin, Henry Moore, Tony Cragg, Isa Genzken, Antony Gormley, Masatoshi Izumi, Francois-Xavier Lalanne, Maya Lin, Richard Long, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, Frank Stella, Peter Wegner. Secondary works by Julian Schnabel, Dennis Hopper, Robert Rauschenberg and Donald Judd add to the collection.Read More >>
architecture & design
Space Cowboys Saddle Up for the SS2
Sir Richard Heralds New Rocketship for New Mexico
On December 7 Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur of spectacle, and Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer unveiled SS2, the next generation of their commercial spacecraft at Rutan's Scaled Composites hangars in Mojave, California.Read More >>
Roadtrip to Truth or Consequences
Great Burgers and Birdwatching.
It's hard to be patient while waiting for chow.Read More >>
Finding a good martini in Fargo.Go West!
Dan Graham Gets Fooled with
San Francisco MOMA
Dan Graham gets an arty couple movin in his Double Cylinder (The Kiss), installed on the roof of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Conrad Skinner taped video from the central stairwell on October 6.Read More >>art
Floating Island Rounds Manhattan
Conrad Skinner Looks On
Sometime around 1970 Robert Smithson drew a sketch of a tug towing a barge planted with trees.
In conjunction with Smithson's 2005 retrospective at The Whitney, Nancy Holt and Minetta Brook undertook to interpret the drawing in real life, outfitting a vessel to carry the miniature park and finding a tugboat at the scale of Smithson's drawing. The archipelago navigated the Hudson River and East River to the amusement and amazement of New Yorkers and Conrad Skinner four years ago this fall.
performance
Globalquerque Rocks!
Globalquerque! brings world music to National Hispanic Cultural Center.Read More >>
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