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Basquiat’s Ex
Via artinfo.com
Mar 27
By the time Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alexis Adler broke up in 1980, the then-budding artist had used the walls of Adler’s East Village home as a canvas. Now Adler is revealing these works, along with photos and ephemera, for the first time.
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Please Draw Freely
Via guggenheim.org
Mar 26
In conjunction with its current exhibition, Gutai: Splendid Playground, the Guggenheim has developed a participatory website, Please Draw Freely, which invites users to create drawings in collaboration with living Gutai artists.
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Curatorial Criminology
Via artforum.com
Mar 26
“The Curator’s Office, with its cigarette butts and coffee stains, is like a crime scene, motivating the viewer to uncover the identity left behind by this illusive figure,” says Mark Dion of his installation in the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s More Real show.
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Gunning for Change
Via standard.co.uk
Mar 26
“A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear,” says Pedro Reyes of his Disarm project, in which he turns guns into music-makers. “But if you turn it into an instrument, it’s like social gold. It brings people together and you build trust.”
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Art Space
Via smithsonianmag.com
Mar 26
China-born Cai Guo-Qiang, who makes pyrotechnic artworks meant to be seen from space, says he moved to the US because NASA’s here: “I was attracted to anything that would bring me closer to the universe—and the universe closer to me.”
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Asleep in the Museum
Via gothamist.com
Mar 25
Tilda Swinton is performing The Maybe—in which the actress sleeps in a glass box inside MoMA—intermittently throughout the year. The unannounced naps will happen a half dozen more times throughout the museum by year’s end.
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Habitable Art
Via independent.co.uk
Mar 22
A replica of Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth is being built in Munich, but unlike its London counterpart it won’t have art on it. Artist Alexander Laner is furnishing the hollow pedestal as a tiny apartment where one lucky resident can live rent-free.
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No MOCA Merger
Via latimes.com
Mar 20
The board of cash-strapped LA MOCA voted Friday to reject a merger offer from LACMA. “The Board is in agreement that the best future for MOCA would be as an independent institution,” said a museum statement released Tuesday.
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Big Air Package
Via cbc.ca
Mar 18
Billed as the world’s largest indoor art installation, Christo’s first project since the 2009 death of wife Jeanne-Claude is Big Air Package, an inflated fabric dome measuring 70 meters high and 50 meters wide installed in Germany’s Gasometer Oberhausen.