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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.”
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Paint & Materiality
Via kaleidoscope-press.com
Dec 2012
“In a day, we experience most images with a cursor,” says the Walker’s Eric Crosby of Painter Painter, an exhibition of works that resist that notion, including pieces that are “sprayed, frayed, printed, stitched, glued, smeared, stretched, and so on.”
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Cindy Blinks
Via studio360.org
Dec 2012
What happens when contemporary artists, including Alex da Corte and Joe Kay, try their hands at making animated GIFs: Bruce Naumann-like loops of a perpetually lit/extinguished candle or an Untitled Film Still featuring a blinking Cindy Sherman.
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Yellow Prison
Via guardian.co.uk
Dec 2012
Wlodzimierz Umaniec, who vandalized a Rothko mural at Tate Modern to promote the made-up art movement Yellowism, has been sentenced to two years in prison. Restoration of the work could take 20 months and cost more than $300,000.
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Walker Un-censored
Via artinamericamagazine.com
Dec 2012
Covered since mid-November, a Kara Walker drawing at the Newark Public Library is now unobscured, despite protests from some visitors. Walker says the 6-by-9½-foot work “conjures horrors of reconstruction and 20th-century Jim Crow-ism and the Tea Party.”