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80 Years of Paint
Via frieze.com
Jan 16
Carmen Herrera, now 98, has been painting daily for 80 years, but of all the work she’s made there are “not too many” she still likes. “Sometimes I’m very pleased, sometimes not so pleased, but it takes me a little while to know that a painting is garbage.”
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Sneeze-Free
Via hyperallergic.com
Jan 16
Fear not, allergy sufferers! Wolfgang Laib’s 18x21 ft. work Pollen from Hazelnut, opening at MoMA Jan. 23, shouldn’t trigger sneezes. There have been “no known incidents” in 36 years of Laib’s use of pollen, according to a report from (fittingly) Hyperallergic.
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In Praise of Hatchet Jobs
Via guardian.co.uk
Jan 15
“Art reviews are getting way too polite.” Jonathan Jones says the art world needs its own Hatchet Job of the Year prize, which praises fierce literature reviews. “Wouldn’t it actually be fun … to burst a few inflated reputations?”
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Razing Picasso?
Via theartnewspaper.com
Jan 14
As officials debate the fate of government buildings damaged by a 2011 car bomb in Oslo, the fate of a series of concrete murals by Picasso is in the balance. Discussions are underway about how or if to preserve art created for the now-uninhabitable buildings.
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Barney’s Board
Via juxtapoz.com
Jan 10
Matthew Barney has contributed a skateboard deck for an auction to benefit a DIY skate park in Detroit. Number 19 in his Drawing Restraint series, it features a graphite pad on the underside, turning the skateboard into a rolling drawing tool.
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Open Call: The Exception and the Rule
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Jan 10
Are you an artist with a foot in activism, a community organizer, or a small business owner? Are you someone who questions the status quo? Are you interested in uncovering structures of power and exclusion? Are you the exception and the rule? This spring, London-based artists Karen Mirza and Brad Butler present a collection of […]
Are you an artist with a foot in activism, a community organizer, or a small…
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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.