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Josh Pratt wrote a new post, Marcel Dzama's "Une Danse des Bouffons", on the...
Hours after watching Marcel Dzama’s Un Danse des Boufoons at the Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea, it still resonated with me. Sitting on a foam cube watching this peculiar (to say the least), 35-minute...
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Josh Pratt wrote a new post, Bizet's Carmen, on the site The Arts in New York...
In Carmen, as in almost any other production, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It wasn’t just the incredible projection of voices that caught my attention – the orchestra and set also...
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This is an extremely interesting art exhibit, Mike! It proves that we can see art in places that we may not necessarily expect, and that it truly is all around us in New York (even in an office...
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Josh Pratt wrote a new post, Beauty Behind Picasso's Linocuts, on the site...
Walking around a gallery full of Picasso’s work on Jacqueline made me realize how dedicated and incredible the artist was throughout his life. What particularly stuck out to me, however, was his...
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Aaron, these are some really good points about the dance performance. I like how you speak about the idea that the dances were predominantly focussed around emotion. I first attempted to make some sort...
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I really like how you talk about architecture at Cornell. Especially being in New York, we take for granted the amazing buildings that surround us. We rarely look up, and I think we should do that more...
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Josh Pratt wrote a new post, "Time Temple" at the Guggenheim, on the site The...
I thought Wang Jianwei’s installation was extremely thought-provoking. Knowing that it was meant to play with the idea of time forced me at least try to associate each piece with “time.” In an...
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Josh Pratt wrote a new post, Thomas Heatherwick's "Spun Chair", on the site...
This past week, I went to the Museum of Modern Art with my brother to look around. I came across the “Spun Chair.” I first saw it across the room, and was thinking that it was a very large piece of...
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Josh Pratt wrote a new post, Duane Hanson's Sculptures, on the site The Arts...
Walking late at night down Park Avenue, I stumbled across what seemed to be an empty room with a bored security guard watching nothing. I walked past the gallery without even realizing it was a...
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Josh Pratt wrote a new post, Fabian Oefner, on the site The Arts in New York...
I recently discovered Fabian Oefner, and was amazed by his use of color. He uses normal physical properties with different liquids to create art that is seemingly random, but also very deliberate. For...
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Josh Pratt wrote a new post, Imploded Sculptures on Park, on the site The...
Taking a walk in October across 67th street, I looked up to see an odd, geometric figure. I wanted to know more. As I walked by, I was able to snap a picture so I can look at it later. As it turns...
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This was probably a great exhibit. Graffiti isn’t always done by vandals, and shouldn’t be seen so negatively. Some of the art that people create on the buildings in New York and the rest of the world...
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I also thought that Close’s art was phenomenal! I completely agree with the perception thing, I loved playing with the way that I was viewing the art at any given time. The spiral staircase was like...
View ArticleJosh Pratt wrote a new post, Police Brutality on Riker's Island, on the site...
The problems at Riker’s Island are often overlooked, since not many people pay close attention to the events happening at a prison. However, there are severe issues at the jail complex that are only...
View ArticleJosh Pratt wrote a new post, Genomic Sequencing of Microbes on Skin, on the...
The genus Malassezia, is a microbe commonly found on human skin. However, it can cause skin disorders like skin cancer, eczema, and dandruff. Recently, full genomic sequencing of these Malassezia has...
View ArticleJosh Pratt wrote a new post, Internet.org: Better than Nothing?, on the site...
As we’ve all read, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has pushed an initiative that connects people in developing countries to the internet. He has given access to millions of people, including one million in...
View ArticleJosh Pratt wrote a new post, Privacy Goes Down the Drain, on the site...
Through big data, our privacy may soon be eliminated. Algorithms and unsupervised machine learning can fill in the blanks of our missing information, subjecting everyone to gender or racial...
View ArticleJosh Pratt wrote a new post, The Rise of FinTech, on the site FinTechs Today
Prior to reading articles for this class, I didn’t even know that FinTech was its own sector. However, one doesn’t have to know that to know that FinTech is taking the world by storm. Everywhere we loo...
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