A bit of deconstruction preceded the installation process for Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Autoconstrucción Suites: Prior to the Mexico City–based artist’s arrival, all the non-load-bearing walls in the Target and Friedman galleries–including the one separating the two spaces–have been removed. It’s the first time since the Walker expansion opened in 2005 that the galleries have been […] A bit of…

A replica of Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth is being built in Munich, but unlike its London counterpart it won’t have art on it. Artist Alexander Laner is furnishing the hollow pedestal as a tiny apartment where one lucky resident can live rent-free.

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.

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.

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).

Los Angeles–based artist Dianna Molzan presents a visual diary of the making of her painting Untitled (2010-2013).

“When an object is discarded by a person, it’s valueless,” says Abraham Cruzvillegas. “For autoconstrucción, it could be seen as prime matter.” The Mexico City-based artist gives such “dead” objects a new use by “revealing instead of hiding their nature.” Here Cruzvillegas discusses how this idea of “self-construction” underpins his artistic practice and offers a metaphor for the creation of his own identity.