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Bending Light
Via architectmagazine.com
May 24
“The Skyspaces, perhaps, best embody Turrell’s affinity to architecture: of the way space can be molded to heighten emotion and bend light,” writes Carolina Miranda of artist James Turrell’s work, which is on view in shows in LA, NY, and Houston this summer.
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Slideshows
Take a Tour of Walker on the Green
Slideshows
May 24
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, the Walker delivers Walker on the Green, a fresh round of miniature golf. Designed by artists, architects, engineers, and putt-putt connoisseurs, the two eight-hole courses include 15 novelties ranging from garden gnome foosball to a geodesic dome housing miniature versions of the Walker building and the Spoonbridge and Cherry.
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Art News from Elsewhere
Republican Romance
Via theatlanticwire.com
May 24
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has inspired an “old-fashioned bodice ripper romance,” Tréy Sager’s Fires of Siberia, due out as an e-book June 1. The hook: It’s published by Badlands Unlimited, contemporary artist Paul Chan’s publishing venture.
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Blogs
Previewing Fritz Haeg’s Foraging Circle
Field Guide
May 24
While one quadrant of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden was abuzz this past Thursday with the opening night of Walker on the Green an artist-designed mini golf course, another corner found folks gathered under Foraging Circle a recently commissioned artwork by artist Fritz Haeg who was also on site for a meet and greet. Foraging Circle is a garden of perennials with […]
While one quadrant of the…
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Art News from Elsewhere
Koshalek Resigns
Via washingtoncitypaper.com
May 23
Hirshhorn Museum Director Richard Koshalek has resigned after an inconclusive board vote over an inflatable architectural pavilion for the museum. He reportedly didn’t feel his vision, both for “the Bubble” and for the museum, had support.
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Schimmel Goes Gallery
Via latimes.com
May 23
Paul Schimmel, who resigned as chief curator at MOCA last year, is getting into the gallery biz: He’ll be heading up a new LA branch of Hauser Wirth (& Schimmel). Expect shows that “feel more museum-like in terms of scale, scholarship and complexity.”
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“International Disco Latin”
Via e-flux.com
May 23
In the new issue of e-flux journal, artists Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl respond to “International Art English,” Alix Rule and David Levine’s discussion-provoking essay on contemporary art’s penchant for artspeak.
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Dumbass
Via guardian.co.uk
May 23
Ai Weiwei has released the first single from the metal album The Divine Comedy (due 6/22), along with the Christopher Doyle-directed video “Dumbass.” With music by Zuoxiao Zuzhou, the song served as “a kind of self-therapy,” the dissident artist says.