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Art News from Elsewhere
Monk’s Tower
Via onbeing.org
Feb 22
Accompanying its recent segment on Meredith Monk, On Being links up video of a haunting performance by the vocalist with dancers and musicians inside a 78-foot-tall tower designed by artist Ann Hamilton.
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Art News from Elsewhere
2012 Oscar Race
Via colorlines.com
Feb 22
Who votes on the Oscars? White men, mostly. A new study finds that the membership of the awards’ body, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is nearly 94 percent white and 77 percent male. Blacks and Latinos each make up 2 percent or less.
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Blogs
Lifelike: Installing Jonathan Seliger’s Giant Milk Carton
Visual Arts Blog
Feb 22
Tuesday saw the arrival of an enormous partner to Robert Therrien’s gigantic folding table and chairs: Jonathan Seliger’s sculpture of an 8-1/2-foot-tall quart carton of America’s Choice Vitamin D milk. After being uncrated in Cargill Lounge, the bronze-and-enamel piece made its way to the Hennepin Avenue side of the building, where it’ll mark an entrance to the exhibitionLifelike, which opens…
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Art News from Elsewhere
Warhol 25 Years On
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 22
Andy Warhol “left his mark in many more ways than his actual work,” says Gillian Wearing, from his idea of hiring teams of artists to produce his work to his improvisational filmmaking. He died 25 years ago today.
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Blogs
Teen Programs and WACTAC Blog Archive Call for artists and performers age 14-21!
Teens Blog
Feb 22
Since 1994, the Walker Art Center has been the innovative leader in teen programming, providing cultural institutions around the world with a successful model for engaging teenagers. The mission of Teen Programs is to connect teenagers to contemporary art and artists. The Walker was the first art museum in the country to devote full-time staff to working with and building teen audiences…
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Continuous Deployment with Fabric
New Media Blog
Feb 22
We have been using Fabric to deploy changes to walkerart.org. Fabric is a library that enables a string of commands to be run on multiple servers. Though similar things could be done with shell scripts, we enjoy staying in one language as mush as possible. In Fabric, strings are composed and sent to remote servers as commands over an SSH connection. Our Fabric scripts have been evolving over…
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Art News from Elsewhere
Sherman Monument
Via moma.org
Feb 21
For its Cindy Sherman retrospective, which comes to the Walker in November, MoMA installed a monumental mural featuring self-portraits of the artist as characters who “seem to be on the fringes of society,” according to curator Eva Respini.
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Articles
Radical Realism: Lifelike Explores the Mutability of Reality
Julie Caniglia
Feb 21
One long-standing notion in western culture is that an artist’s work should stand out. It should look and be strange somehow—if not bizarre, then at least out of the ordinary. The new Walker exhibition Lifelike explores a contrary proposition: What if realism is the new radicalism, dull is the new bizarre?