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“Tough Cookie”
Via bluebottlecoffee.com
Apr 22
“It’s funny to think that our frozen banana based on a Robert Mapplethorpe photograph didn’t get censored, but that this cookie plate did.” That’s Leah at Oakland’s Blue Bottle Coffee recounting the time they tried to make a Richard Serra-inspired cookie plate.
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State on Trial
Via guardian.co.uk
Apr 16
What kind of state are we in when we start to think about “the state”? In a new op-ed for Creative Time Reports, Ai Weiwei writes about the current state of China: “Manipulation of the truth does not lead to a lack of truth—it’s worse than no truth.”
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175 Fine Fellows
Via gf.org
Apr 12
Photographer Alec Soth is among 175 American and Canadian artists, scholars, and scientists named 2013 Guggenheim Fellows. Others making the cut: filmmaker Marie Losier, composer Myra Melford, artist Coco Fusco, and filmmaker Ira Sachs.
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Frenetic Pop
Via nytimes.com
Apr 12
Claes Oldenburg’s early installations, writes Blake Gopnik in a preview of MoMA’s show (opening Sunday), show “a frenetic, angry, even political side that has been lost in our concentration on him in his later, cheery Pop Art incarnation.”
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Jellyfish Eyes
Via flavorwire.com
Apr 11
Jellyfish Eyes is the name of Takashi Murakami’s wallpaper long a fixture near the Walker Art Lab. It’s also the title of his debut film, hitting theaters Apr. 26, which features an array of “fantasy creatures, from the utterly hideous to the unbelievably adorable.”
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Messerschmidt’s Motifs
Via youtube.com
Apr 9
Diamonds, aliens, a Michael Jackson mask, the mirhab motif in Islamic architecture: In a new segment by The Playlist, Andy Messerschmidt discusses the visual influences in his art, including his new Walker installation, Graze Anatomy.
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Haacke and the PM
Via blouinartinfo.com
Apr 9
With the death of Margaret Thatcher, Rozalia Jovanovic looks at the flap over Hans Haacke’s 1984 Taking Stock (unfinished), a portrait of the PM that features plates bearing the faces of campaign ad men and artworld bigwigs, Charles and Maurice Saatchi.
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Going It Alone
Via artforum.com
Apr 3
“Making art by relying on your own resources cuts you out from a crowd that is begging for cash to do anything,” says artist Richard Jackson. “Fostering independence in yourself, wherever you are, can be more isolating than working up in the mountains.”
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Marriage Meme
Via hyperallergic.com
Mar 29
With SCOTUS considering the constitutionality of DOMA, Facebook users are showing solidarity for marriage equality through profile pics that riff on the iconic equals sign—with everything from a Rothko painting to a pair of cans of Bud making appearances.