Karen Carson Has a New, Kaleidoscopic Vision

Good morning. ☁️ Today, the first new blue in 200 years, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago cut 1

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Good morning. ☁️ Today, the first new blue in 200 years, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago cut 11% of its workforce, and a good way to explore experimental Asian-American film.– Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

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The First New Shade of Blue in Centuries

YInMn blue, the first new blue pigment in 200 years (all images courtesy of Oregon State University)

Cerulean, azure, navy, royal … Much has been written about the color blue, the first human-made pigment.Now, a new shade of the celebrated color is available for artists — YInMn Blue. It’s named after its components — Yttrium, Indium, and Manganese — and its luminous, vivid pigment never fades, even if mixed with oil and water.

SPONSORED Purchase College Invites Graduate Students to Join Vibrant Community of Makers and Thinkers Students can expect to pay significantly less than half the cost of attendance of equivalent private graduate programs, thanks to the college’s position in the SUNY system.

In Other NewsThe Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago cut 11% of its workforce last week, citing financial losses brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. MoMA chairman Leon Black has announced that he will step down as CEO of his multi-billion dollar private equity firm Apollo Global Management, following an investigation into his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. With a donation of nearly 2,000 books from his installation “library of exile,” the British artist and author Edmund de Waal is doing his part to rebuild the University of Mosul’s collection.

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Karen Carson, an Early California Minimalist, Has a New, Kaleidoscopic Vision Carson’s geometric paintings, inspired by the land of big sky, mimic rolling hills and valleys. Renée Reizman

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A Unique Source for Experimental Asian American Films Returns After a successful run in 2020, the online repertory series My Sight is Lined with Visions returns for a full year of rotating programs. Dan Schindel

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