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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.
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New Conservation
Via bloomberg.com
Mar 15
The work of the art conservator has changed since the heyday of frescoes and oils. Now the art fixer’s tools can range from specially sourced elephant dung (to repair an Ofili) to out-of-production fluorescent bulbs (to remedy a burnt-out Flavin).
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Haeg on Home
Via thelabmagazine.com
Mar 15
With Fritz Haeg’s “At Home in the City” residency launching May 11, The Lab films the artist in his geodesic dome as he discusses “home,” which he says “represents culture and society at the cellular level” and “the place where most people can effect immediate change.”
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Quiet Formalism
Via badatsports.com
Mar 14
Bad at Sports’ Eric Asboe’s visits to the Twin Cities included looks at two exhibitions that represent “spare, quiet returns to formalism,” the Walker’s Painter Painter and the Soap Factory’s group show R.U.R.
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Francis on Art
Via artlyst.com
Mar 14
Pope Francis’ stance on contemporary art? Not good, if his actions in 2004 are any indicator. As a cardinal in Argentina, Jorge Bergoglio dubbed an exhibition of works by León Ferrari “blasphemous” and successfully lobbied for its censorship.
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MOCA Story
Via cmonstah.tumblr.com
Mar 14
Confused by all the twists and turns in the recent history of LA MOCA? Carolina Miranda translates the story in gif format, using pop-culture references from Jon Stewart and King Kong to Monty Python and Star Wars.
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Art and Oil
Via bloomberg.com
Mar 12
An oil trader paid $100M by Citigroup the year the government bailed the company out now owns a private art museum in Vermont. In its collection: photos by Edward Burtynsky, who documents environmental damage from extraction industries.
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Chinese Metal
Via guardian.co.uk
Mar 11
“Metal, often derided and dismissed, is a rich resource for anyone who wants to transgress repressive norms,” writes Keith Kahn-Harris on news Ai Weiwei is releasing a metal-influenced album with musician Zuoxiao Zuzhou (featuring cover art by Ai).