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PHOTOS: BILLY HICKEY | HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM AND NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF ROMANIA | GETTY MUSEUM
THE MAURICE SENDAK FOUNDATION | HMG/MHOCH4 | JONATHAN DORADO © JOAN JONAS / ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/ CARCC OTTAWA 2024
ART AND SCIENCE COLLIDE IN EXHIBITIONS across Southern
California during the third annual PST ART, the largest art event in the
U.S., on now through February. Topics range from biotechnology and
indigenous sci-fi to the future of artificial intelligence. At the Getty
Center in Los Angeles, Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology,
explores how the 12 signs of the zodiac in the night sky and movement
of the planets influenced daily life and health during the Middle Ages,
including practices such as planting crops, picking flowers and blood-
letting. Rising Signs closes January 5. getty.edu/museum; pst.art
A MASSIVE CONCRETE EYESORE
in downtown Hamburg’s St. Pauli
district has been transformed into
an urban oasis. Built in 1942 by
the Nazis, the menacing anti-air-
craft bunker considered too big to
demolish is now an architectural
treasure. Five new floors fes-
tooned with nearly 5,000 trees
host a REVERB by Hard Rock
hotel, restaurants, a memorial for
Second World War victims and a rooftop garden boasting a spectacular
view of Germany’s second largest city. Visitors can reach the
green roof by climbing 335 stairs or by tackling the 560-metre-long
“mountain path” that winds around the building’s exterior. hamburg-
bunker.com or bunker-stpauli.de/en
The Denver Art Museum has gone wild
over Wild Things, an exhibition featuring
more than 400 works by beloved New
York artist Maurice Sendak. The exhibit
highlights original paintings from
Sendak’s award-winning 1963 children’s
book, Where the Wild Things Are. Over
a 65-year career, Sendak’s stories
and whimsical illustrations promoted
courage, adventure, resilience and
curiosity. He was born in 1928 to Polish-Jewish immigrants and began
his work as a mostly self-taught illustrator, later branching out into
designing theatre sets and collaborating on films. Alongside Sendak’s
work, Wild Things features works from artists that inspired him, from
William Blake to Walt Disney. Wild Things runs through February 17,
2025 in the museum’s Hamilton Building. denverartmuseum.org
AN IMPORTANT WORK BY A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK artist
with a Nova Scotia connection has been jointly acquired by the Art
Gallery of Nova Scotia and the National Gallery of Canada. Joan Jonas’s
Moving Off the Land II premiered at MoMA in New York earlier this
year as part of her Good Night Good Morning retrospective. It will make
its Canadian debut in Halifax next summer. Jonas says the work was
inspired by the more than 50 summers she’s spent by the ocean on
Cape Breton Island. Through video, print, theatre structures, cast glass
and Murano glass mirrors, the multimedia installation portrays the
ocean as a threatened space, a place of myths and transformative
encounters with wildlife. Agns.ca