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Koshalek Resigns
Via washingtoncitypaper.com
May 23
Hirshhorn Museum Director Richard Koshalek has resigned after an inconclusive board vote over an inflatable architectural pavilion for the museum. He reportedly didn’t feel his vision, both for “the Bubble” and for the museum, had support.
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Schimmel Goes Gallery
Via latimes.com
May 23
Paul Schimmel, who resigned as chief curator at MOCA last year, is getting into the gallery biz: He’ll be heading up a new LA branch of Hauser Wirth (& Schimmel). Expect shows that “feel more museum-like in terms of scale, scholarship and complexity.”
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“International Disco Latin”
Via e-flux.com
May 23
In the new issue of e-flux journal, artists Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl respond to “International Art English,” Alix Rule and David Levine’s discussion-provoking essay on contemporary art’s penchant for artspeak.
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Dumbass
Via guardian.co.uk
May 23
Ai Weiwei has released the first single from the metal album The Divine Comedy (due 6/22), along with the Christopher Doyle-directed video “Dumbass.” With music by Zuoxiao Zuzhou, the song served as “a kind of self-therapy,” the dissident artist says.
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A Bubble Backer
Via washingtonpost.com
May 20
“Greenlighting the Bubble,” writes critic Philip Kennicott of the Smithsonian’s inflatable public programs space, “will require faith in the power of ideas and culture, in the proposition that art has something to say, that its voice needs to be heard in Washington.”
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Museum Politics
Via theartnewspaper.com
May 19
The new Palestinian Museum scheduled to open in Birzeit next year, is only political, says curator Jack Persekian, “in the sense that it provides spaces and opportunities for Palestinians to shape their own historical narrative and to engage with it.”
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Milk Map
Via rawstory.com
May 17
For a new show in Hong Kong, Ai Weiwei has created a map of China using 1,815 cans of baby formula. After six children died from melamine-tainted milk in China in 2008, many on the mainland have turned to Hong Kong in search of new sources of milk powder.