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Bucky Reborn
via theartnewspaper.com
Dec 2011
An early ‘70s geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) is on view now in Miami. Newly restored, the 24-foot “monohex” dome is one of only three prototypes for the inventor’s “autonomous dwelling machine”—a sustainable off-the-grid dwelling.
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Ai Weiwei at Sundance
via aiweiweifilm.org
Dec 2011
After three years in development, Alison Klayman’s documentary film, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, will finally reach audiences — at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in late January.
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Performance v. Performance Art
via culturebot.net
Dec 2011
“[I]t seems that many of the visual arts curators currently working to promote visual arts performance lack knowledge in contemporary performance,” writes Andy Horwitz, “and I think this presents a problem, as well as a challenge.”
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AIDS, Rage & Compassion
via nytimes.com
Nov 2011
“Declarations both outrageous and outraged abound” in Jim Hodges’ World AIDS Day film, which screens December 1 at the Walker, “but so do expressions of compassion as people come to terms with their losses,” writes Linda Yablonsky.
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HIDE/SEEK Revisited
via washingtonpost.com
Nov 2011
A year later, Philip Kennicott looks at the decision by Smithsonian secretary G. Wayne Clough to remove a video by David Wojnarowicz from the HIDE/SEEK exhibition, calling it “a dark day for the Smithsonian” and “a successful, coordinated attack on free speech.”
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A Rock and a Hard Place
via latimes.com
Nov 2011
The slow task of moving a 340-pound boulder—the centerpiece of Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass to be installed at LACMA—106 miles is slowed further by bureaucracy: Each of 100 jursidictions the stone rolls through require permits to allow passage.
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Wim on Ai on China
via artinfo.com
Nov 2011
Artist Wim Delvoye on the difference between how he and Ai Weiwei view China: “He is a very, very angry man, very angry in China. They have done things to him, and he cannot forgive. I’m a foreigner, I’m an outsider, I see things more with rose-colored glasses.”
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Baby Marx at OWS
via nytimes.com
Nov 2011
The Times takes note of Pedro Reyes’ recent trip to the Big Apple: He took puppet versions of Karl Marx and Adam Smith from his Walker exhibition to Occupy Wall Street, where the duo debated capitalism and socialism — until, that is, Smith escaped in a golden parachute.
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Wojnarowicz Redux?
via brooklynpaper.com
Nov 2011
With last year’s success in getting the National Portrait Gallery to remove a video by David Wojnarowicz from the exhibition HIDE/SEEK in mind, some religious groups are hoping for similar results when the show opens in Brooklyn. They appear unlikely to get them.