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Gardening Between Hope and Doom: Fritz Haeg on Edible Estates
Paul Schmelzer
Nov 2012
Confronting a symbol of the American Dream, Fritz Haeg will visit Minnesota in May to plant a garden in an unlikely place. Situated between “simultaneous, equally valid points of doom and hope,” his Edible Estates will turn a suburban front lawn into a vegetable garden—an optimistic, if possibly “ridiculous,” act. His aim: to explore the “fantastic notion of what the city I want to live in looks like.”
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Black Friday Hoax
Via latimes.com
Nov 2012
In advance of Black Friday strikes and protests at Walmart stores, an email hoax has targeted the Arkansas museum founded by Sam Walton’s heir. The email falsely said Crystal Bridges would be closed Friday in solidarity with striking workers.
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Rothko Repair
Via bbc.co.uk
Nov 2012
A Mark Rothko painting vandalized at Tate Modern in October could take 18 months to repair. “The ink from the pen [of Wlodzimierz Umaniec] has bled all the way through the canvas causing a deep wound, not a superficial graze,” says the BBC’s Will Gompertz.
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Art & Banking
Via believermag.com
Nov 2012
This “unexpected double history of banking and the art world” starts with Hirst: Made from $23.6M in stones, the full $100M value of his famed skull comes in the making. It “applies the technique of a leveraged buyout not only to a work of art but as a work of art.”
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Last Pictures Launch
Via echostarxvi.com
Nov 2012
Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures heads into space Tuesday aboard the Echostar XVI satellite. His project—discussed in our series Lowercase P: Artists & Politics—includes 100 photos of our culture. Watch the launch live at 1:15 pm EST/12:15 CST.
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Blogs
Painting as Score: Sarah Crowner on Format
Untitled (Blog)
Nov 2012
“The way I make paintings involves a lot of stretching, a lot of muscle, a lot of ‘body’–cutting, taking apart, dealing with the material,” says New York–based artist Sarah Crowner.
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Ramallah View
Via artforum.com
Nov 2012
Bidouin editor Negar Azimi recounts her trip two weeks ago to Ramallah to jury part of the Qalandiya International. The renewed conflict between Israel and Palestine, she writes, “underscores the importance of these fragile but enduring cultural institutions.”
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Market Backlash
Via reuters.com
Nov 2012
Felix Salmon sees stirrings for a “more supportive and democratic art world, taken seriously by respected gatekeepers, which increasingly views the twice-yearly shenanigans at Sotheby’s and Christie’s as an obscene sideshow rather than as a true gauge of value.”
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Postcards of War
Via frieze.com
Nov 2012
Inspired by the art of Alfredo Jaar and Yoko Ono, British war artist Derek Eland worked with troops and civilians in Afghanistan to create “Diary Rooms,” spaces covered with text-covered postcards about their sometimes mundane, often stunning experiences with war.