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Hybridity: The New Frontier
The evolution of species and spaces in twenty-first century art explores the diminishing boundaries between human and animal kingdoms, recent advances in scientific technology, and the shifting environmental and economic conditions actively altering the Earth and its inhabitants. Employing photography,…
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Dead Ringer: Slater Bradley and Ed Lachman
“I think the larger issue is, as human beings, how do we cope with loss? If you’re so in love with something, or if something resonates in such a beautiful way with you that it creates this formation of your…
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Orange Tree
Orange Tree, Alexandre Arrechea’s large-scale sculpture of a metal tree sprouting basketball hoops and surrounded by basketballs, has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, and Shanghai. Pepsi-Cola incorporated Orange Tree as part of the company’s “Bronx Flavor Campaign,” an initiative…
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FLOW 5.0
This interactive sculpture by Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde is a smart wall composed of hundreds of ventilators that respond to visitors. As viewers approach, sensors located within the sculpture are activated as fans, blowing air onto passersby and…
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A Sudden Gust of Wind in Bentonville
Serkan Özkaya’s A Sudden Gust of Wind, Bentonville is comprised of 400 sheets of metal that emulate a scattered stack of 8.5″ x 11″ papers, frozen in motion across the ceiling and walls and descending to the floor. Alluding to the beauty…
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Hide and Seek
“After being approached to create a drawing for glass bathroom walls and partitions, my mind kept going back to the notion of hiding,” says Anne Peabody. “The prospect of being seen by others while enclosed in a traditionally sacred and…
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Tree of 40 Fruit
The Tree of 40 Fruit is quite literally a fruit tree that will grow forty varieties of fruit from the family of stone fruits, including peach, plum, apricot, nectarine, cherry and the hybrid species therein. Blossoming in variegated tones of…
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Elevator Lobby Wallpapers
Chris Doyle (American) Unfolded, 2010-13 Wallpaper Elevator lobby, fourth floor Referencing paper currency in shape and design, Chris Doyle’s Unfolded belongs to the same body of work as Waste_Generation (2010), the animation featured in the video lounge as part of the inaugural exhibition, Hybridity: The…
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Fat Bat
Through drawings, collages, and life-size figurative sculptures, she combines the whimsical with the macabre. In Fat Bat, Barré transforms the comic-book character Batman into a humorous hybrid both fantastical and familiar, effectively deflating the power and idealization of the cartoon superhero while…
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Channel Two
As an extension of its mission to make art more accessible, 21c Museum is proud to present Channel Two, a video artwork channel that debuted at opening in 2006. Available for viewing in hotel guest rooms and in the Proof…
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Green Penguin
“We have sought the origins of life in the earth’s oldest natural material, that is petroleum. A black, dense liquid disgorging from the warm womb of Mother Earth, and the natural repository of the planet’s entire history of organic life-forms,…
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