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Monk’s Tower
Via onbeing.org
Feb 22
Accompanying its recent segment on Meredith Monk, On Being links up video of a haunting performance by the vocalist with dancers and musicians inside a 78-foot-tall tower designed by artist Ann Hamilton.
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2012 Oscar Race
Via colorlines.com
Feb 22
Who votes on the Oscars? White men, mostly. A new study finds that the membership of the awards’ body, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is nearly 94 percent white and 77 percent male. Blacks and Latinos each make up 2 percent or less.
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Warhol 25 Years On
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 22
Andy Warhol “left his mark in many more ways than his actual work,” says Gillian Wearing, from his idea of hiring teams of artists to produce his work to his improvisational filmmaking. He died 25 years ago today.
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Sherman Monument
Via moma.org
Feb 21
For its Cindy Sherman retrospective, which comes to the Walker in November, MoMA installed a monumental mural featuring self-portraits of the artist as characters who “seem to be on the fringes of society,” according to curator Eva Respini.
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“Book Burning” in Berlin
Via berlinbiennale.de
Feb 21
A furor has erupted over Czech artist Martin Zet’s plan to make art from donated copies of a book by Thilo Sarrazin. Dubbed polarizing, “xenophobic and racist” by Igor Stokfiszewski, the books’ fate reminds some critics of Nazi-era book-burning.
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New Art Lexicon
Via artinfo.com
Feb 21
“As much as the theorists have interrogated ideas of beauty and the like, I don’t necessarily think the lexicon we use to discuss art has progressed,” says Nato Thompson in a discussion of his new book, Seeing Power.
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Gehry Backlash?
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 21
There’s a backlash against architects who are making “buildings that have movement and feeling,” says Frank Gehry. “The notion is that it is counterproductive to social responsibility and sustainability.”
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Diegetic Cinematography
Via rhizome.org
Feb 17
Diegetic sound is the part of a film score that characters can hear: background music in a car, as opposed to music that adds suspense for audiences. So what exactly is digetic camerawork? John Powers looks at the film Chronicle to explain.
