Tag: Fragility

  • 'MIZU' Contemplates Fragility and Impermanence in a Poignant Dance with an Ice Puppet

    “Ice burns, and it is hard for the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost,” wrote A.S. Byatt in Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice. Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami characterizes ice in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman as a capsule that preserves the past “cleanly and clearly,” but possesses no future. In the read more

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    'MIZU' Contemplates Fragility and Impermanence in a Poignant Dance with an Ice Puppet

  • Stained Glass Objects by Pia Hinz Reflect the Contrast Between Strength and Fragility

    Building sites and agricultural areas are typically described by the utilitarian operations that shape them—rugged, harsh, and often back-breaking. They are spaces that resist softness, built quite literally around force and tension. Artist Pia Hinz flips this idea on its head as she explores the conceptual and material relationship between strength and vulnerability. Living and read more

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  • Our Critics Disagree on MoMA PS1’s Greater New York, a Wide-Ranging Survey Defined by a Fascination with Fragility

    When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took his oath at the start of this year, he vowed to tell a “new story of our city.” MoMA PS1, one of the city’s defining contemporary art institutions, has now endeavored to do the same with Greater New York, its quinquennial for artists who live and work read more

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    Our Critics Disagree on MoMA PS1’s Greater New York, a Wide-Ranging Survey Defined by a Fascination with Fragility