Borderline.PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS Paul Vandenbroeck, curator at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, chartered and incorporated (1870) after a decision by the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pool their collections of art objects and house them in adequate public galleries. in Antwerp, presents 120 carpets woven by Berber women and 100 palimpsests "woven" by the psychiatrist and artist Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger in an exhibition designed by international star architect Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد) CBE (born October 31, 1950, Baghdad, Iraq) is a notable Iraqi-British deconstructivist architect. Biography Born october 31 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. . The splendor of the abstract fabrics should not, however, detract from detract from verb 1. lessen, reduce, diminish, lower, take away from, derogate, devaluate << OPPOSITE enhance verb 2. the contentious (and problematical) thematics of the show, which raises issues about the "originality" of modern Western abstraction while appropriating the creative labor of Berber women in the name of art-historical inquiry. The show's three companion publications, with essays by Griselda Pollock, Brian Massumi Brian Massumi is an academic, writer and social critic. He teaches in the Communication Department of the Université de Montréal. Massumi focuses on the philosophies of communication, electronic art, computer-aided design, architecture and the virtual. , and Christine Buci-Glucksmann, should explore the complexities inherent in this homage to a "female art." Feb. 25-May 21. |
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