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Collecting Cunningham
Via brooklynrail.org
Dec 2011
“Given Merce Cunningham’s lifelong capacity for reinvention, it is no surprise that he is posthumously pushing the Walker Art Center to rethink how and what it collects,” writes the Walker’s Abigail Sebaly.
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Congrats to USA Fellows
Via usafellows.org
Dec 2011
Among artists named USA Fellows for 2011—which comes with a $50,000 check from USA Artists—are many with Walker ties, but a special congratulations to locals making the cut, including choreographer Morgan Thorson and composer Mary Ellen Childs.
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Coolhunting Bither
Via coolhunting.com
Dec 2011
Citing work with artists as diverse as Young Jean Lee, Bill T. Jones and Laurie Anderson, Coolhunting profiles the Walker’s Philip Bither, “one of the most progressive curators of the interdisciplinary arts.” News to us: His grandfather was a jazz banjo player.
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Ultimate Merce
Via merce.org
Dec 2011
“Mondays with Merce” screens the last interview done with legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham. Filmed in 2009, a month before his death, the then-90-year old recalls road-tripping (and foraging) with John Cage, David Tudor, and others.
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Performance v. Performance Art
via culturebot.net
Dec 2011
“[I]t seems that many of the visual arts curators currently working to promote visual arts performance lack knowledge in contemporary performance,” writes Andy Horwitz, “and I think this presents a problem, as well as a challenge.”
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Art Works in Minnesota
via nea.gov
Oct 2011
A new NEA survey finds there of 2.1 million artists in the U.S. workforce, some 42,000 living here in the Land o’ Lakes. Other findings: Minnesota leads the nation in the concentration of jobs in book publishing, and the Twin Cities’ concentration of theater jobs is twice the national average.