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Seeing Things: Looking, Watching, and Listening

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Kota Ezawa's LYAM 3D A walk through the museum the other day in honor of one year ending and the new year beginning, was a feast for the eyes...and ears. It's not just getting up close to a painting that can be rewarding, it's also hearing what other people say to each other when looking. Love, hate, indifference...I've heard them all....

Murakami Hits The Macy’s Day Parade

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Takashi Murakami's Kaikai and Kiki My parents will be pleased. Murakami’s well known characters Kaikai and Kiki will be seen in helium balloon form this November at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, so for the first time in ten years I will be attending the parade with them.  From the New York Times:  If familiar figures like Kermit the Frog and SpongeBob SquarePants...

Comments at an Exhibition: Visitors Respond to Rockwell

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Norman Rockwell, Boy and Father: Homework, Four Seasons Calendar, 1962, oil on canvas, Collection of George Lucas, © Brown and Bigelow With the exhibition Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg closing on January 2nd, we wanted to share some of the comments visitors have shared with us, both online as well as in...

Come Home to Cocktails@Cooper-Hewitt

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When the Carnegie mansion was built, it may have been lavish, but it was designed to be home. That spirit lives on in Cocktails@Cooper-Hewitt, our popular summer series. Every Friday evening, Members and museum visitors come “home” to Cooper-Hewitt to unwind for the weekend. The Ed Fuqua Group provides smooth sounds of jazz wafting through the summer air of the...

In This Case: A Filled Gap and My First Win

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Peter (A Young English Girl) by Romaine Brooks The Luce Center staff can be a fairly competitive bunch: which of our scavenger hunts gets the most participants or which audio tour stops do visitors listen to most often. But lately, we’ve extended our competition to our ongoing Fill the Gap project where we ask you to help us fill the empty...