Category: Museum
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On View: Infinite Images
Shifting, looping white lines scrolled across a black background, moving in seemingly random directions, on the video screen in front of me. Rhythmic electronic music played through the headphones I wore. The combination of visuals and music had me in a trance. Only an awareness of the other exhibition-goers who waited for their turn in…
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Weekly Wanderings: April 22, 2025
Thanks for joining me this week. Recommendations China Stories James T. Areddy, “The China Foe Storming State Capitols” Ben Bland, “Making sense of China-Southeast Asia relations” Jonathan Chatwin, “The Race to Type in Chinese” Chang Che, “‘You Think We’re Afraid of America?’” and “3 takeaways from my visit to Yiwu, the frontlines of the trade…
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On View: Post No Bills
A small exhibit of artwork by Burhan Doğançay (1929-2013) has just opened at the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art. “Post No Bills: Burhan Doğançay’s Archive of Urban Protest” includes several of Doğançay’s collages, which were inspired when he looked at a wall in New York while serving there as a Turkish diplomat in 1962.…
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Weekly Wanderings: April 28, 2024
My brain felt chaotic and restless as I walked through the Toledo Museum of Art yesterday morning, taking in the works surrounding me in each room but not settling on anything long enough to fully consider it. Scuffed parquet floors creaked underneath my steps as I moved through rooms offering a special exhibit on African…
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham 