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James Partrick is a DJ, curator, author, and educator. He curates and develops electronic music and art festivals and events. He has also won many awards including the American Composer Forum- MECA award. He also develops music production, composition, and sound design curricula for Dubspot in New York City and the Institute of Production and Recording in Minneapolis. He is also the owner of the Slam Academy that students take the electronic music training. James Patrick started the article with the Charlie Parker’s personal life and he talked about his musical career and his music style. Charlie Parker was born on August 29, 1920 in Kansas City and died on March 12, 1955 in Manhattan. Parker’s personal life was complicated. He was addicted to alcohol and heroin and it became his burdens. When he got arrested in 1950, he was banned to play at Birdland, which was named in his honor. Charlie Parker was hired at a resort in Missouri and studied harmony with Efferge Ware in 1937. From 1940 to 1942, Parker palyed in Jay McShann’s band and made his first recording. In December 1942, he played with Earl Hines and Dizzy Gillespie as a tenor saxophonist. In 1945, Parker led his own group for the first time and worked with Gillespie. From 1945 to 1946, they made more than fifty recordings together. They also played in Hollywood together in the end of 1945. However, Gillespie left Hollywood after the performances, and Parker stayed. Parker, soon, formed a quintet that was active from…

They’re so similar; many people don’t know the difference between the two. The highest priced types of art are modern and contemporary. Modern art is commonly summarized as impressionism but sometimes varies. Modern art is the artist’s inner visions expressed using real life subject matter and is usually made with many different mediums. Contemporary art is more difficult to describe. Contemporary art is the successor to modern art and is taking place now. Because there is such a large quantity…

people. Postmodernism help started the feminist art movement giving women freedom of expression through art and those who were not able to express themselves in the past. Postmodernism began creating new media genres such as deconstructuralism, Eco-art, mimicry etc to create a statement through humor (Zurbrugg, 1993). I’ve definitely been inspired by contemporary historical works. It has affected me positively by making me consider current events and try working with a whole range of mixed…

(Erpentine Galleries). Yiadom-Boakye’s provocative approach of story-telling makes her a rising art star in the contemporary art field. At the same time, as the curator of Yiadom-Boakye’s very first solo exhibition, Naomi Beckwith showed her remarkable ability to spot new rising artist. As Lawrence Alloway writes in the article “The Great Curatorial Dim-Out,” some of the pressures a curator would encounter are “taste expectations emanating from the trustees and director” (224), and “taste…

Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Pixel Forest occupies three floors of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. It includes work throughout Rist’s entire career, from her earliest videos of the 1980s, which explore the representation of the female body in popular culture, to her more recent extensive video installations, which transform the space into dream-like environments enhanced by mystical music. The exhibition is eccentric and unconventional; visitors of the New Museum are quickly attracted to…

Specifically, this paper will address the I.M. Pei additions through Foster & Partners of the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art mainly from its conception in 1981 to its opening in 2011. It is beyond the scope of this paper to explore changes in the Linde Family Wing after its opening in 2011. This paper will cover how the museum was able to expand in order to create this new wing and why the new wing was important for the museum's growing contemporary collection. I will also discuss I.M.…

Since 1993, Miuccia Prada and her husband and business partner, Patrizio Bertelli have owned and managed Fondazione Prada, a nonprofit contemporary arts foundation that supports and exhibits emerging artists (Ryan 2007, 9). As Nicky Ryan notes in her article, ‘Prada and the Art of Patronage,’ Prada has also seated itself within the avant-garde world through numerous collaborations with artists such as Tom Sachs, Andreas Gursky, and architect Rem Koolhaas (Ryan 2007). It therefore would come to…

to change their behaviors is conveyed through the Misfit, who comments “Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead… and He shouldn’t have done it… and if He didn’t, then it’s nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can-by killing somebody or burning down this house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness” (O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” 152). In every situation, whether it be in the contemporary world or prior, there will…

Postmodern artists reacted to the usual conventions of art by developing new ways of viewing what art might be. The postmodern artists aimed to react against the narrow boundaries of Modernism with special emphasis given to abstract and minimalist art. Appropriation often breaks the conventions or norms and regulations in art. Placing a well known image in a different situation to alter its interpretation, is an artistic technique called appropriation. The techniques of challenging usual art…

Kierkegaard uses the parable of the jewel, to illustrate the difference in thought in the passionate and reflective ages. In the following essay, I will explore the difference between the two ages to gain a deeper understanding of Kierkegaard’s sentiments behind the example, before explaining the parable and showing how his prophetic analysis is truer than ever. Kierkegaard begins the The Present Age by stating that the present age is “one of understanding and reflection, without passion,…