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Columbus Circle⎯home of the tourists, swindlers, and major retailers our city knows so well.  Located on the southwestern most corner of Central Park, the circle is almost always packed with visitors.  However, not all people go to this traffic-prone circle for the overly priced shops and restaurants; some people visit this New York City hub for its art appeal.  If you do visit Columbus Circle and look toward the towering Time Warner Center, you can see a building out of the corner of your left eye.  Past the perpetual commotion, inflated price tags, and flashy lights of the Circle’s shops, there lies a quiet museum with the most riveting artwork in the city. The museum utilizes the same ingenuity the shops use in their promotions, but with a tad bit more eloquence.  Innovation is essential for the success of any organization in New York, and is the foremost characteristic of the Museum of Arts and Design. [Read more →]

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Everyday ordinary objects are turned into works of art, giving them a “Second Life”, as the title of an exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design states. The innovative designs show the creative artwork held, making it a valuable experience if one wishes to view unique artwork. A common result is the production of uniquely styled furniture. These are scattered throughout the museum and particularly caught my attention because of the creative way they transformed the intended purpose of an item into something else. In a society in which natural resources are used to produce objects that are then thrown away, recycling and reusing materials helps our environment. [Read more →]

Are fairytales meant for children only? If you think the answer is yes, then I’ve got a movie that will strip all your stereotypes. Pan’s Labyrinth, directed by Guillermo del Toro, is an independent movie filmed in Spanish that successfully combines fairytale and harsh fascist reality of the darkest chapter of Spain’s history. With a surprising density and complexity, Pan’s Labyrinth has an uncompromising story that mesmerizes its viewers. [Read more →]

Tae Min Kim
Art Review #4

The Museum of Arts and Designs is a ginormous (Yes, I made up a word, because it was big!) place located in the heart of Manhattan. Hearing rumors about how interesting and how great the museum is, my friends, my crew, and I decided to give it a visit. How was the museum, you ask? Hmm… let me ask you something first. One often chooses a museum to enjoy his stay there and look at different kinds of art works that may be appealing to them. Did you ever experience a time where you went to a museum having high expectations for it to be amazing, but then you enter to find that the museum lacks intricacy and is very boring? And then you find yourself so angry that you want to throw a rock (or something) at the museum and just want to break the art pieces because it shows a lack of effort and because you feel that even you yourself could have created such pieces? Well, this wasn’t one of those times. This museum was AMAAZING!! [Read more →]

New Bamboo Podcast

Everyone knows what bamboo is – you know, that tall, green, leafy rigid stalk plant that is almost weed-like in how fast it grows. When I think of bamboo, the first three things that come to my mind are China, panda bears, and my failed 2nd grade plant experiment (which totally wasn’t my fault). My association of bamboo with art pretty much extended only to those Chinese ink paintings of bamboo forests, and maybe bamboo flutes at a stretch. It’s certainly no surprise, then, that the exhibit “New Bamboo” at the Japan Society gallery completely blew away all my expectations of what “bamboo art” could be.

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