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Mark Dion's Historic Deep Sea Dive
The Oceanographic Museum is a massive stone building, cleaved into an imposing cliff called Le Rocher ("The Rock"), along the Hitchcock-ian coastline of Monaco's Riviera. Over the course of several recent sunny April days, the museum opened "Oceanomania," a large-scale Mark Dion exhibition and curatorial endeavor that uses the sea as both a territory of biological discovery and mythological archetype.With one of the largest marine life aquariums in the world, the Oceanographic Museum was the pet project of Prince Albert I of Monaco (1848–1922), a sea adventurer, early innovator in the science of oceanography, and great-great grandfather of the current sovereign of Monaco, Prince Albert II. With the charge to "combine art and science," the museum opened to the public in 1910.
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Two to Tango
"Come into the dark, we can't see anything and we have never been to Antarctica," invites Vito Acconci in his "Antarctica of the Mind," (2004) a building proposal for the Halley II Research Station in Antarctica. Though Acconci's proposal, which functions more as a poem than a traditional plan, was never realized, in his first show at New York's Maccarone, My Flesh to Your Bare Bones: A Duet With Vito Acconci, American artist Oscar Tuazon attempted to build the imagined Antarctic research station.Read More
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Currently on view in the group show "Redux" at New York's Cristin Tierney Gallery (through Feb. 4) are two works by Joe Fig, both related to his 200
