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Plants as Paint
Via guardian.co.uk
Dec 2012
Helen Babbs looks at artists who use plants as their medium: Fritz Haeg (2013 Walker artist in residence) and Mathilde Roussel. The use of natural elements gives their work an ephemeral quality, “something in common with performance art,” she writes.
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Art Work
Via wsj.com
Dec 2012
With union rights and unemployment continuing to make headlines, artists and museums are again focusing on labor, from Theaster Gates’ sculptural shoeshine chairs to the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s show The World at Work: Images of Labor and Industry.
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NatGeo on Instagram
Via hyperallergic.com
Dec 2012
The proposed change to Instagram’s terms of service has irked many, but one of the more high-profile users taking note is National Geographic, which used the platform to tell its 640k followers it’s suspending its account over the proposed change.
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Autodestrucción
Via artinamericamagazine.com
Dec 2012
In March, Abraham Cruzvillegas will show his “autoconstrucciónes” at the Walker, but currently in LA it’s Autodestrucción—works that show how Internationalism can be “appropriated, customized, modified, adapted and even destroyed” based on local needs.
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Turnaround Arts
Via nytimes.com
Dec 2012
A poor test-taker who was born with face blindness, Chuck Close says, “Art saved my life.” He’s working with Turnaround Arts, a federally sponsored program dedicated to using art to help improve academic performance at struggling schools.
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When Art… Isn’t
Via hyperallergic.com
Dec 2012
A show at a Columbia University’s Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery examines “non-art,” that is, “damaged art objects that insurance companies deemed worthless by a legal maneuver that entitles the owner to an indemnification payment.”
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Guards as Art
Via slate.com
Dec 2012
Andy Freeberg’s portraits of women gallery monitors in Russian museums move focus from the art to its guardians, creating some compelling juxtapositions: “The women’s positioning, their clothing, the angles of their faces—all seem almost set-up in the images.”
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Paint & Materiality
Via kaleidoscope-press.com
Dec 2012
“In a day, we experience most images with a cursor,” says the Walker’s Eric Crosby of Painter Painter, an exhibition of works that resist that notion, including pieces that are “sprayed, frayed, printed, stitched, glued, smeared, stretched, and so on.”
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Cindy Blinks
Via studio360.org
Dec 2012
What happens when contemporary artists, including Alex da Corte and Joe Kay, try their hands at making animated GIFs: Bruce Naumann-like loops of a perpetually lit/extinguished candle or an Untitled Film Still featuring a blinking Cindy Sherman.