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The Wet Paint hat. Photo courtesy Nate Freeman.
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Twombly Foundation Sues the Louvre – Tensions between the Cy Twombly Foundation and the Louvre have erupted into a lawsuit. The foundation filed suit in a Paris court on Friday demanding the Louvre reverse a renovation it began during lockdown of a gallery that houses a monumental blue ceiling mural designed by Twombly in 2010. “It’s offensive,” said David Baum, the foundation’s lawyer. “For this to come via text message with a picture where everything is done. We hit
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On Thursday, February 25, as part of Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, Paper Monument guest editors Daisy Nam and Christopher K. Ho spoke to contributors Mel Chin, Aruna D’Souza, Hyperlink Press, and Patrick Jaojoco about Paper Monument’s new anthology,
Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts.
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Editors Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam will lead a conversation with Mel Chin, Aruna D’Souza, Hyperlink Press, and Patrick Jaojoco, all contributors to Paper Monument’s new anthology,
Best! ignite new ways of being and modes of creating at a moment of racial reckoning. The panelists will read from their letters, discuss
Best!‘s origins, and touch on topics such as how the project shifted throughout 2020, the intimacy and complexity of the epistolary form, and the urgency of moving beyond and exploding open the model-minority myth.
6:30–7:30 PM EST
Thursday, February 25
Houston s
The towers, also called
Pillars of the Community, commemorate the Bayou City s 150th anniversary.
By
Emma Schkloven
2/8/2021 at 11:00am
Published in the December 2020 issue of
Houstonia
Itâs impossible to miss the seven towering pillars as you stroll along the Sesquicentennial Park promenade or across Preston Street Bridge. By day, the looming 70-foot structures that make up
Seven Wonders echo the cityâs impressive skyline, while they double as enormous lanterns that bathe the nearby Buffalo Bayou and the back of the Wortham Center in a warm glow by night. Yet
Seven Wonders, also called
Pillars of the Community, is far more than just a hat-tip to local architecture or a ginormous night light. It is designed to act as a time capsule, a history book, and a crystal ballâcapturing a single moment of Houston life, commemorating a historic event, and looking toward the cityâs future all at once.