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Picasso Vandal Surrenders
Via chron.com
Jan 9
On the lam since vandalizing Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair at the Menil Collection in June, Uriel Landeros surrendered to officials at the US/Mexico border Tuesday. An artist, he explains his act: “I did this to turn heads.”
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Buses by Baldessari
Via latimes.com
Jan 8
Inspired by a Sol LeWitt rubber stamp, John Baldessari started making stamps of his own, bearing imperative messages. One—“Learn to dream”—now appears on 12 LA buses, in English and Spanish, as part of the Arts Matter campaign.
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Looking Glass
Via nytimes.com
Jan 8
“One doesn’t usually know where ideas come from,” says Jasper Johns. But he knows what inspired the set elements he made for Merce Cunningham’s Walkaround Time (part of the Walker collection): looking at a booklet featuring line drawings of Duchamp’s The Large Glass.
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The Power of Non-Experts
Via hyperallergic.com
Jan 4
“[I]f we spend less time dismissing non-experts and more time listening, we can learn something,” writes MoMA’s Desi Gonzalez. “I dream of a world of grassroots art interpretations, that values the perceptions of a novice as much as a Ph.D.”
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Duchamp Forever
Via mediabistro.com
Jan 3
Marking the 100th anniversary of the seminal 1913 Armory Show, the US Postal Service is issuing a set of 12 modern art “Forever” stamps. Available for preorder now, they feature Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O’Keeffe, and others.
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A Chair Was Present
Via hyperallergic.com
Jan 3
When the chairs were removed after Marina Abramović’s MoMA show The Artist Is Present closed, NYC artist Man Bartlett took home the tape on the floor indicating placement of the work’s chairs. One is now part of a collage for sale on eBay.
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Best MAN
Via artinfo.com
Jan 2
Assessing the best of 2012, Modern Art Notes gives top-10 props to Zoe Strauss’ survey in Philadelphia, Richard Serra’s drawing retrospective at the Menil Collection, and our own “killer website,” to name a few. Thanks, MAN’s Tyler Green!
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Fast and the Feds
Via theartnewspaper.com
Jan 2
Interested in US drones, Israeli-born artist Omer Fast took out a Craigslist ad seeking a drone operator. Enter the FBI. He tells Eyal Weizman, “We were told to stop what we were doing and threatened in suggestive, spy-movie language.”
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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.