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1/11 Art: Ai Wei Wei’s installation ‘he xie’
Ai Wei Wei’s ground-bound installation ‘he xie’ collects the forms of hundreds porcelain crabs situated in a heap in the main exhibition space. The work is saturated in social symbolism; ‘he xie’ translates to ‘river crab’ but sounds very similar to the mandarin word meaning ‘harmonization’, the state’s euphemism suggesting censorship. The political double meaning […]
Diana Nyad TED Talk
Recently Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the protection of a shark cage. Back in 2011, when she filmed this TED Talk, she had no idea that she would ever complete her goal. It is fascinating to hear someone as driven as her talk about failing, especially now […]
Yoga is….
Yoga Is from www.yogais.com on Vimeo.
The Economist: The Utility of Bad Art
Check out a link to a behavioral economics piece on the perception of art — here.