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07 May
Posted by David Miller as Classic Board Games, Modern Board Games
Two new art and design exhibits open Thursday at the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis.
In the first exhibit, Strategy by Design, are board games from the Michael Graves Design Group. Along with additional pieces to provide historical context are Graves-designed versions of Scrabble, Monopoly, Yahtzee, and Backgammon.
The second, Pieces and Performances, pairs the works of John Cage and Glenn Kaino. From Cage is the Chess board he rigged to play different musical pieces depending on the space to which a piece was moved. The board was originally used by the artist and Marcel Duchamp for a public performance in 1968. From Kaino are an 80 inch square Chess board and images of a 2007 Chess tournament in which the pieces were lit candles (thus featuring a built-in time-limit).
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