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There is a curious contradiction at the center of Ruth Asawa’s place in American art history: an artist who fundamentally altered the possibilities of sculpture has spent much of the postwar period sitting just outside the canonical narrative her innovations should have helped define. That narrative has largely been built around David Smith’s monumental ambitions, […]

Following over a decade of development, costing around one billion dollars, and requiring a team of over 150 architects, engineers, and designers, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is now finally complete. Looking like a strange spaceship has landed in Los Angeles, the incredible building holds a huge amount of art dedicated to storytelling – everything from Star Wars props to ancient Egyptian po…

I am an amateur pianist, and I love performing classical music. Reflecting on my willingness to follow the score written by the composers, I found it bizarre: I follow the score to such an extreme extent that I am willing to take the risk of ruining a public performance. Sometimes, the instructions on the score […] The post Why We Love Performing Classical Music first appeared on Blog of the APA.…

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