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An Airstream Bambi trailer, which was designed in 1960 and became a fixture on American highways, at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, June 29, 2021. The MoMA exhibit Automania, drawn almost exclusively from the museums own collection, walks a painted white line between critique and celebration. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Lawrence Ulrich
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- For many Americans, cars became a lifeline and refuge during the pandemic, even as newly sparkling air over locked-down cities highlighted their darker side. Soul-searching over commuting and climate change was balanced by hope that cars might clean up their act via electricity, and allow new generations to fall for their beauty and ingenuity. That wrench-tight tension is at the heart of Automania, an exhibition opening at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan on Sunday July Fourth, a holiday that has come to symbolize motorized freedom and parade-queen convertibl
Ed Atkins premieres a new project at the New Museum
Ed Atkins, The Worm, 2021 (production still). Video projection with sound, 12:40 min. Courtesy the artist. Commissioned and produced by the New Museum and Nokia Bell Labs / Experiments in Art and Technologies.
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.- Over the past decade, Ed Atkins (b. 1982, Oxford, United Kingdom) has created a complex body of work that considers the relationship between the corporeal and the digital, the ordinary and the uncanny, through highdefinition computer-generated (CG) animations, theatrical environments, elliptical writings, and syncopated sound montages. With these filmic and text-based artworks, Atkins tracks forms of feeling, living, and communicating hidden behind or curtailed by technological representation, which unfold into sensitive and often somber narratives.
"The Body Electric" at the Museum of At and Design at Miami Dade College tackles controversies concerning race, class, and gender while showing how art and technology have converged since the mid-1960s.
Police investigating reported attack on Black man in Pismo Beach
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The City of Pismo Beach is asking anyone who witnessed an attack on a young Black man earlier this month to contact the police department.
City officials say they were made aware of the attack after a Letter to the Editor was published in The Tribune on Thursday, April 22.
In the letter, a man identified as Ed Atkins of Vallejo says that during a recent visit to Pismo Beach, his daughter s boyfriend was beaten by four white males in what he believes was a racist attack that seemed driven by their intolerance of a mixed race couple.
Collectors often say that they only regret ‘the ones that got away’. That feeling of loss at having missed out on something is much the same whether one collects paintings, fossils, sculpture, ceramics or stamps. It only intensifies when the thing being collected is particularly hard to come by, but, conversely, can be relieved by the small triumph of acquiring something else that others have overlooked or not managed to secure. In my own case, these feelings are palpable in relation to (arguably) one of the most niche areas of collecting: bookplates. As a child, I was forever creating collections of things: coins, postcards, badges, stones and even novelty erasers. In adulthood this mindset of acquisition and organisation has been focused, outside my professional life as a museum curator and director, into an enthusiasm for the more specialised domain of bookplates, informed by my love of wood engraving and illustrated books.