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I See Music: How Oskar Fischinger Influenced Disney
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I See Music: How Oskar Fischinger Influenced Disney

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 / 1 March 2018

Remember the pre-CGI visual beauty of Fantasia? Fischinger, who also worked with Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, among others, invented the "lumigraph" (a machine for "playing" colors on screen). This guy should be put on a stamp.

‘Avedon / Warhol’ Is an Astute Juxtaposition of the Two Brightest Stars in the Gagosian Galaxy
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‘Avedon / Warhol’ Is an Astute Juxtaposition of the Two Brightest Stars in the Gagosian Galaxy

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 / 23 May 2016
Gagosian has a clear-eyed, bird’s eye view on perhaps the most self-evident yet severely complicated relationship in modern art history.
Painting – “Inside a Cup / Unsure” (video) (premiere)
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Painting – “Inside a Cup / Unsure” (video) (premiere)

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 / 30 June 2015
Jazz duo Painting teams up with filmmaker Hideki Shiota for an unsettling, stylish new video to the piece "Inside a Cup / Unsure".
What Will We Become? R.E.M.’s “Driver 8”
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What Will We Become? R.E.M.’s “Driver 8”

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 / 24 January 2014
In 2008 Michael Stipe introduced "Driver 8" as "a song that represents the dream of the United States of America and what it may become in the next three days." What did he mean, and has that dream come true?
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Of Sunlight and Shadows: ‘The Civil War and American Art’

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 / 18 February 2013
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Ocean Colour Scene: Painting

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 / 11 February 2013
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A Slice of Berlin in Los Angeles

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 / 12 December 2011
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‘Van Gogh: A Brush with Genius’ Is Van Gogh, Heavily Bowdlerized

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 / 1 December 2010