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Eyebrow Raisers
Via minnpost.com
May 19
The Walker’s just-announced 2012-13 Performing Arts Season is “like the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book,” writes Pamela Espeland. “You turn the pages, you see a lot of things you want and a few eyebrow-raisers.”
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The Warhol Crater
Via nasa.gov
May 16
Via Gallerist NY we learn that NASA has named 23 of Mercury’s “impact craters” after art figures. In addition to Nureyev, Nabakov and Alvin Ailey, visual artists like Magritte and Warhol are also honored with namesake divots on the planet closest the sun.
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Dean’s Quietude
Via thedailybeast.com
May 8
The “quietude” in Tacita Dean’s film Five Americans—which includes meditative footage of artists including Claes Oldenburg, Merce Cunningham, and Julie Mehretu—”is hard-won, achieved with as much labor as any oil by Vermeer,” writes Blake Gopnik.
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Driving Toward Summer
Via washingtonpost.com
May 4
Eiko and Koma’s trademark meditative pace will be part of the Caravan Project at Maryland’s Clarice Smith Center, but the work’s conclusion sets it apart: performed in a trailer, the duo will hop in a car and drive away, “looking toward summer,” as Eiko says.
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Duke Artists Named
Via ddpaa.org
Apr 19
Among the first class of Doris Duke Artists, who’ll receive multi-year cash grants of $225,000, are Walker friends Anne Bogart, Bill Frisell, Vijay Iyer, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Young Jean Lee, Eiko Otake, Ralph Lemon, Meredith Monk, Sarah Michelson, and others.
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Full Circle
Via galleristny.com
Apr 17
Upping the dance mojo at Westbeth Center for the Arts even more, the Martha Graham Dance Company is moving into the Greenwich Village studios Merce Cunningham’s dance company occupied since 1970. Cunningham got his start in 1939 as a soloist with Graham.
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Arts Rebound
Via artsusa.org
Apr 11
After hitting an all-time low in 2009, the vitality of the arts industry, as measured by the newest National Arts Index, is rebounding. While funding remains a concern, “half of the 83 indicators used to tabulate the Index score increased” in the latest reporting period.
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Merce’s Ocean
Via nytimes.com
Apr 10
When Merce Cunningham’s dance company performed the choreographer’s magnum opus in a Minnesota quarry in 2008, filmmaker Charles Atlas was there. His Ocean, which captures the Walker co-production in vivid detail, screens this week as part of the Whitney Biennial.
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Arts Ed Alert
Via ed.gov
Apr 3
Arts education in US public schools has taken a hit over the past decade, according to a Department of Education report released Monday: While 20 percent of primary and secondary schools offered drama or dance 10 years ago, only 3 or 4 percent do today.