Archive Visual Arts
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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.
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Art Work
Via wsj.com
Dec 2012
With union rights and unemployment continuing to make headlines, artists and museums are again focusing on labor, from Theaster Gates’ sculptural shoeshine chairs to the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s show The World at Work: Images of Labor and Industry.
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Marilyn Minter on Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #351, 2000
Via walkerart.org
Dec 2012
“She’s one of my relatives,” jokes Marilyn Minter about the “freckled lady” in Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #351 (2000). “Usually when you see images [freckles are] always airbrushed out … This is not a glamorous stereotype. This is not a flamboyant character. She reproduced an ordinary-looking person, and that changes the meaning. To create the ordinary blows my mind.”
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NatGeo on Instagram
Via hyperallergic.com
Dec 2012
The proposed change to Instagram’s terms of service has irked many, but one of the more high-profile users taking note is National Geographic, which used the platform to tell its 640k followers it’s suspending its account over the proposed change.
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Autodestrucción
Via artinamericamagazine.com
Dec 2012
In March, Abraham Cruzvillegas will show his “autoconstrucciónes” at the Walker, but currently in LA it’s Autodestrucción—works that show how Internationalism can be “appropriated, customized, modified, adapted and even destroyed” based on local needs.
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Turnaround Arts
Via nytimes.com
Dec 2012
A poor test-taker who was born with face blindness, Chuck Close says, “Art saved my life.” He’s working with Turnaround Arts, a federally sponsored program dedicated to using art to help improve academic performance at struggling schools.
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Expanding the Book: An Interview with Badlands Unlimited
Latitudes
Dec 2012
Under the motto “books in an expanded field,” Badlands Unlimited aims to challenge ideas about publishing to encompass everything from art shows curated for the Kindle and iPad to experimental typography and artist e-books. In an interview with Barcelona-based Latitudes, Badlands’ Paul Chan, Ian Cheng, and Micaela Durand discuss their work “embracing every facet of a book’s social life today.”
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When Art… Isn’t
Via hyperallergic.com
Dec 2012
A show at a Columbia University’s Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery examines “non-art,” that is, “damaged art objects that insurance companies deemed worthless by a legal maneuver that entitles the owner to an indemnification payment.”
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Guards as Art
Via slate.com
Dec 2012
Andy Freeberg’s portraits of women gallery monitors in Russian museums move focus from the art to its guardians, creating some compelling juxtapositions: “The women’s positioning, their clothing, the angles of their faces—all seem almost set-up in the images.”