Author Archives: Kevin Tseng
Super Sad True Love Story
I picked up this book because its author, Gary Shteynhgart, had spoken at my graduation from high school. We both went to Stuyvesant. I must admit I trudged my way through some of the sexual tidbits of the prose. I … Continue reading
Leap of Faith
Leap of Faith was the first Broadway production I ever went to. When the singers took the stage, and I saw the bible-belt garb and the gospel music, I smiled, because I was Christian too. And this would be peaceful … Continue reading
The Biography of Steve Jobs
I bought this weighty tome from Costco for $20, expecting that it was just an impulse buy. But once I started to soak in Walter Isaacson’s prose, I was hooked. I carried this book with me for a week, sometimes … Continue reading
Custos Cavum at the Asia Society
U-Ram Choe created this moving sculpture of aluminum shaped like an alligator, but actually a “Custos Cavum.” Now this piece unnerved me when I first saw it. It has little motors that created many hissing sounds as it moved the … Continue reading
Anatomical Painting at the Whitney Museum of Art
I encountered this painting on the second floor of the Whitney Museum of Art. It was created by Pavel Tchelitchew in 1946, right after World War II. I wondered if the war had any significance on the drawing. It shows … Continue reading
Ezra Jack Keats at the Jewish Museum
“Crunch, crunch, crunch, his feat sank into the snow.” Ezra Jack Keats illustrated this in 1962 and named in The Snowy Day. He then said that “In The Snowy Day the figure you see walking through the snow is a … Continue reading
Henri Cartier Bresson in MoMA
When I went to the MoMA, I didn’t like (by personal preference) many of the artworks that were being exhibited. In one piece, a classical artwork had a penis graffitied all over it. The murals on the walls made no … Continue reading
Think – My Video of the Snapshot Exhibition
This is a video about the Snapshot gallery that I created with two other friends. I honestly thought that the whole day would be just another event that Macaulay gave. I didn’t know that I would get so interested in … Continue reading
Bullman and Uptown Girl at MAD
Both of these installations/statues were on the same floor of the Museum of Art and Design, because they are in many ways very similar, the obvious being that they’re both made by Korean artists. However, the similarities also show for … Continue reading
Star Quilt at the American Folk Art Museum
Nora McKeon Ezell created this quilt out of cotton in Alabama in 1977. He used the eight pointed Bethlehem star and changed the shapes of the points in order to create this piece. It is apparently endowed by the Great … Continue reading
