William Basinski

WEEK IN REVIEW: Art and the Fiscal Cliff, Pirating...

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BLOUIN ARTINFO

Our most-talked-about stories in Visual Art, Design & Architecture, Fashion & Style, and Performing Arts, December 31, 2012 - January 4, 2013:ART— The deal to stop the perilous tumble down the fiscal cliff will have both positive and...

Aidan Salakhov Lucy Lippard, Barclays Center, Brooklyn Museum, Christian Marclay, Jean Nouvel, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Louise Bourgeois, Meadham Kirchhoff, National Museum of Mathematics, Nina Hoss, Steven Kolb, William Basinski, Zaha Hadid, Visual Arts, Week in Review

Loop’s Labor’s Lost: How William Basinski Turned...

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Craig Hubert

It began as an act of preservation. In the summer of 2001, the musician and composer William Basinski was in the process of digitizing his vast archive of tape loops at his loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As the first loop ran through the machine, he noticed...