'Design Above All': small spaces, big ideas Sep 21, 2009
The unit is filled with the couple's black-and-white photography collection - including works by Richard Avedon and Vik Muniz - and the muted color scheme is a nod to Adams, who believed that saturated gray provided the best backdrop for black-and-white photos. Highlights: Michael McEwen's mica pendant lighting fixture pairs dramatically with a Berman Rosetti dining table and built-in banquette. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Williams College exhibit highlights outsiders of Chinese society Mar 15, 2009
Where Liu is interested in how the Chinese perceive themselves, Vik Muniz, in "Vik Muniz: Memory Renderings," is after how we perceive perception - or, better yet, how we perceive recollection ... VIK MUNIZ: Memory Renderings At the Williams College Museum of Art, 15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Williamstown, through April 26 and May 17, respectively. (Boston Globe)
Dodging and disguise in Gay Outlaw's artworks Feb 15, 2009
Vik Muniz has made quite a name for himself toying with camera translations of dimensional information. Here he contributes a series of pictures that pay homage to Albrecht Drer's famous 1493 etching of rumpled, shadowed pillows. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Andrea K. Scott: Vik Muniz, at MOMA. Feb 8, 2009
Vik Muniz, the irreverent Brazilian known for playing fast and loose with food and art history he s remade Leonardo s Last Supper in chocolate syrup and Caravaggio s Medusa in spaghetti has organized an all-synapses-firing show, titled Rebus, at MOMA. Eighty-two objects from the collection, both choice (a beachscape by the French Symbolist Odilon Redon) and mundane (a plastic hamburger, designer unknown), are arranged single file, sparking a domino effect of optical associations. Some are... (New Yorker)
Brandeis' Attempt to Turn Art into Assets Feb 7, 2009
Marlene Persky, who chairs the collections committee of the Rose, had been planning to give the school a work by Vik Muniz, an artist who is represented in the collections of most major American museums. Not anymore. (Time.com)
