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Gramsci Monument
Via gramsci-monument.com
May 3
Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument, to run July 1 thru Sept. 15, will host a range of activities—including a radio station—from a structure on the grounds of a Bronx housing development. The Dia-backed project is the last of his philosopher-based monuments.
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Free Forms: An #OpenCurating Interview with Lauren Cornell
Latitudes
May 3
What challenges, expectations, and new possibilities does digital culture and social media present to contemporary art institutions? Barcelona-based curatorial office Latitudes (Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna) continues its ongoing #OpenCurating series with a conversation about culture and connectivity with former Rhizome director and current New Museum curator Lauren Cornell.
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Totally Uncool
Via hyperallergic.com
May 3
Usually silent on ripoffs of her art, Barbara Kruger comments on a suit by clothing brand Supreme (with its Krugeresque logo) against designer Leah McSweeney. Of the “uncool jokers” involved, she writes, “I’m waiting for them all to sue me for copyright infringement.”
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Art Formula
Via latimes.com
May 2
Spite doesn’t seem to underpin art in William Powhida’s new LA show, which apes artworld “formulas” from Cattelan-style taxidermy to Richterian abstraction, writes Holly Myers. He sincerely asks, “How does the art world work and how should we feel about that?”
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On Being Curated
Via frieze.com
May 1
What’s it feel like being curated? Eight artists weigh in on the rise of the curator and what it means, including W.A.G.E., Slavs and Tatars, and Daniel Buren, who revisits his 1972 statement “Exhibiting Exhibitions.”
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Mao-Free
Via artdaily.com
Apr 29
Some of Andy Warhol’s most iconic works are absent from a just-opened show at Shanghai’s Power Station of Art—his portraits of Chairman Mao. It was a “mutual decision” between the center and the Andy Warhol Museum, which loaned some 300 works for the exhibition.
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Jerry’s Girl
Via animalnewyork.com
Apr 29
Fresh off an appeals court ruling in his favor (mostly) in the copyright-infringement case Cariou vs. Prince, Richard Price is out with another work of appropriation: a composite made from all 57 of the women Jerry Seinfeld dated on his long-running sitcom.
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Post–The Exception and the Rule
Untitled (Blog)
Apr 26
***Written by Susy Bielak, Karen Mirza, Brad Butler, Yesomi Umolu*** We are about to tell you the story of a journey. An exploiter and two of the exploited are the travelers. Examine carefully the behavior of these people. Find it surprising though not unusual. Inexplicable though normal, incomprehensible though it is the rule – Bertolt […]
We are about to tell you the story of a journey. An exploiter and two of…
