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Living, dying (and flying) artworks — Inside Anicka Yi’s ephemeral universe By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN New York (CNN) — In New York’s Hudson Valley, the artist Anicka Yi has erected columns bursting with mercurial microbial life, in hues of acid green and coffee,…

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Living, dying (and flying) artworks — Inside Anicka Yi’s ephemeral universe By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN New York (CNN) — In New York’s Hudson Valley, the artist Anicka Yi has erected columns bursting with mercurial microbial life, in hues of acid green and coffee,…

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Some 60 miles away, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, two of her jellyfish-like flying machines take to the air on the fourth floor of the recently reopened New Museum, tentacles gently opening and closing as they drift overhead.

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And, earlier this month, one of her radiolaria-inspired sculptures, an oceanic unicellular organism made large with fiber optic strands and motors, hung suspended at the art fair Frieze New York, hypnotically curling its arms.

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Claim 1: “she collaborates with scientists to develop and execute her works, such as the microbiologist Frank Cusimano, who assisted her on her first foray into Winogradsky cultures at the Venice Biennale in 2019”
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Claim 2: “Her radiolaria-inspired sculptures were born from a series of “Alien Ocean” paintings made in collaboration with machine-learning algorithms”
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Claim 3: “The South Korean-born, Brooklyn-based artist”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anicka Yi (born 1971 in Seoul, South Korea) is a conceptual artist whose work lies at the intersection of fragrance, cuisine, and science. She is known for installations that engage the senses, espec…
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Claim 4: “She’d studied film theory and philosophy”
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Claim 5: “the artist Anicka Yi has erected columns bursting with mercurial microbial life... arranged like an archaeological dig at Storm King Art Center”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Anicka Yi created an installation at Storm King Art Center featuring acrylic columns filled with organic matter arranged like an excavated site.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 16, 2026 ... Acrylic columns filled with organic matter sourced from Storm King's South Ponds rise from an artist-designed pool at the center of an excavated ...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYZvK8BljrH/
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web search NEUTRAL — May 21, 2026 ... Storm King Art Center, founded in 1960, is known for its charismatic ... In a way, the Winogradsky columns at Storm King are the end point of Yi's ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/arts/design/anicka-yi-sto…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 17, 2026 ... Rising from a shallow artist-designed pool at the center of the excavated site are acrylic columns filled with organic matter, standing like ...
https://collections.stormking.org/Detail/occurrences/222
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Claim 6: “five years after her major Tate Modern commission opened during the Covid-19 pandemic”
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Claim 7: “The machines, called “aerobes,” are currently part of a larger exhibition at the New Museum called “New Humans: Memories of the Future””
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Claim 8: “two of her jellyfish-like flying machines take to the air on the fourth floor of the recently reopened New Museum”
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CNN and other web sources confirm that two jellyfish-like flying machines (aerobes) are exhibited on the fourth floor of the New Museum.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art (created from or after 1900). It forms part of the Tate group tog…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anicka Yi (born 1971 in Seoul, South Korea) is a conceptual artist whose work lies at the intersection of fragrance, cuisine, and science. She is known for installations that engage the senses, espec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gladstone Gallery is an international art gallery founded by Barbara Gladstone in New York City in 1980. The gallery operates out of New York City, with branches in Los Angeles, California, Brussels, …
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Claim 9: “Yi has conjured a scene of ephemerality in “Message from the Mud,” through these column-dwelling microorganisms”
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CNN and other sources explicitly link the work 'Message from the Mud' to column-dwelling microorganisms and a scene of ephemerality.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 29, 2026 ... ... Message from the Mud.” Emmalee Reed/CNN. Yi has conjured a scene of ephemerality in “Message from the Mud,” through these column-dwelling ...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/style/anicka-yi-artist-storm-…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 20, 2026 ... (A Winogradsky column is a sealed container, usually clear, where diverse microorganisms are cultivated over a period of time.) Moss is an ...
https://galeriemagazine.com/anicka-yis-otherworldly-message-…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 8, 2026 ... Anicka Yi's new work "Message from the Mud" invites viewers to ... My work uses AI tools to surface a new layer. Reconstructing the ...
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Claim 10: “the structure for “Message from the Mud” utilizes Winogradsky columns — small, self-contained ecosystems invented by the Russian-Ukrainian microbiologist Sergei Winogradsky a century and a half ago”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Beggiatoa is a genus of Gammaproteobacteria belonging to the order Thiotrichales, in the Pseudomonadota phylum. These bacteria form colorless filaments composed of cells that can be up to 200 μm in di…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Winogradsky column is a simple device for culturing a large diversity of microorganisms. Invented in the 1880s by Sergei Winogradsky, the device is a column of pond mud and water mixed with a carb…
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Claim 11: “one of her radiolaria-inspired sculptures... hung suspended at the art fair Frieze New York”
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CNN and other web sources confirm the presentation of radiolaria-inspired animatronic sculptures titled 'Nonseparable Parsley' at Frieze New York.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anicka Yi (born 1971 in Seoul, South Korea) is a conceptual artist whose work lies at the intersection of fragrance, cuisine, and science. She is known for installations that engage the senses, espec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Olfactory art is an art form that uses scents as a medium. Olfactory art includes perfume as well as other applications of scent. The art form has been a recognized genre since at least 1980. Marcel D…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Precious Okoyomon (born 1993) is a Nigerian-American artist, poet, and chef. They live and work in New York City.
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Claim 12: “It’s the artist’s first outdoor installation”
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Claim 13: ““In Love With the World,” the helium-filled flying machines she developed for Tate Modern”
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Claim 14: “She’s swabbed bacteria from successful women to create perfume”
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CNN, The Paris Review, and ScholarWorks all report that Yi used bacteria swabbed from women to create perfume/scent-based art.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 29, 2026 ... She's swabbed bacteria from successful women to create perfume ... But Yi has always been drawn to the discomfort we have with bacteria and ...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/style/anicka-yi-artist-storm-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 6, 2015 ... Yi's media are bacteria and smell, and a sense of bodily invasion pervades the exhibition. She worked with cheek swabs from a hundred women ...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/06/feminist-fume…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 18, 2022 ... the swab test of 100 female vaginas and has created art with it. She ... 5 works to know by Anicka Yi: Superbacteria, tempura-fried.
https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/6h441075f
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Claim 15: “Massimiliano Gioni, who leads the New Museum’s curatorial team”
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Claim 16: “Nora Lawrence, executive director of Storm King”
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Claim 17: “placed thousands of ants in an observable circuit-board-shaped colony”
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Multiple sources confirm the artwork 'Lifestyle Wars' featured ants in a colony shaped like a computer circuit board.
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web search NEUTRAL — Her projects include bacteria used to create perfumes featuring successful women, the placement of thousands of ants in a colony that looks like a circuit ...
https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/410311d4_anicka_yi_blends/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 3, 2026 · Anicka Yi is asking visitors to listen to the earth with Message from the Mud, a fictional archaeological dig at Storm King Art Center
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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 17, 2025 · The other work, Lifestyle Wars, featured a colony of ants living on a structure that looked like a computer circuit board. This artwork made ...
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