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Gramsci Monument
Via gramsci-monument.com
May 3
Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument, to run July 1 thru Sept. 15, will host a range of activities—including a radio station—from a structure on the grounds of a Bronx housing development. The Dia-backed project is the last of his philosopher-based monuments.
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Totally Uncool
Via hyperallergic.com
May 3
Usually silent on ripoffs of her art, Barbara Kruger comments on a suit by clothing brand Supreme (with its Krugeresque logo) against designer Leah McSweeney. Of the “uncool jokers” involved, she writes, “I’m waiting for them all to sue me for copyright infringement.”
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Art Formula
Via latimes.com
May 2
Spite doesn’t seem to underpin art in William Powhida’s new LA show, which apes artworld “formulas” from Cattelan-style taxidermy to Richterian abstraction, writes Holly Myers. He sincerely asks, “How does the art world work and how should we feel about that?”
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On Being Curated
Via frieze.com
May 1
What’s it feel like being curated? Eight artists weigh in on the rise of the curator and what it means, including W.A.G.E., Slavs and Tatars, and Daniel Buren, who revisits his 1972 statement “Exhibiting Exhibitions.”
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Nanocinema
Via youtube.com
May 1
A promotion for IBM’s research on atomic memory, this is also the world’s smallest stop-action animation. A Boy and his Atom was made by photographing atoms stacked two high and magnifying the results 100 million times to create a story.
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How Artists Work
Via npr.org
May 1
For Louis Armstrong it was weed. For Tesla, an 8 pm dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, and for Kierkegaard, caffeine. In his new book Daily Rituals, Mason Currey looks at how famed creators—including Richter, Tharp, and Picasso—get work done.
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Museum Finder
Via exploreminnesota.com
Apr 30
May is Minnesota Museums Month, highlighting more than 500 state aquariums, gardens, and museums. The 2013 edition includes a free Museum Finder app that helps you search out the top sites on your smartphone, from the Walker to the US Hockey Hall of Fame.
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New Duke Artists
Via ddpaa.org
Apr 30
New recipients of the Doris Duke Artist Awards have been named. Among them are artists who have shared our stage (or will), including Ping Chong, Myra Melford, Tere O’Connor, Pavol Liska, Kelly Copper, David Lang, Elizabeth Streb, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and others.
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Mao-Free
Via artdaily.com
Apr 29
Some of Andy Warhol’s most iconic works are absent from a just-opened show at Shanghai’s Power Station of Art—his portraits of Chairman Mao. It was a “mutual decision” between the center and the Andy Warhol Museum, which loaned some 300 works for the exhibition.