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175 Fine Fellows
Via gf.org
Apr 12
Photographer Alec Soth is among 175 American and Canadian artists, scholars, and scientists named 2013 Guggenheim Fellows. Others making the cut: filmmaker Marie Losier, composer Myra Melford, artist Coco Fusco, and filmmaker Ira Sachs.
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In Praise of Hatchet Jobs
Via guardian.co.uk
Jan 15
“Art reviews are getting way too polite.” Jonathan Jones says the art world needs its own Hatchet Job of the Year prize, which praises fierce literature reviews. “Wouldn’t it actually be fun … to burst a few inflated reputations?”
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Godot in NOLA
Via nola.com
Oct 2012
On Sunday, HBO’s Treme recreated a 2007 production of Waiting for Godot on New Orleans’ streets. That piece, which included Treme’s Wendell Pierce, was staged by artist Paul Chan, who says post-Katrina NOLA reminded him of the void in Samuel Beckett’s 1953 play.
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Future of Phaidon
Via wsj.com
Oct 2012
Billionaire art collector Leon Black has purchased Phaidon Press, the international art book publisher. Insiders claim that Black’s wealth and resources may help the company expand its reach by distributing books about lesser-known artists.
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Free Reads
Via bbc.co.uk
Sep 2012
For 12 years, Hernando Guanlao has been running an unofficial library outside his Manila home. With no lending rules, you’d think the books would be stolen, but what started as a collection of 200 volumes has instead grown to around 3,000.
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eBook Avalanche
Via artinfo.com
Sep 2012
NY Art Book Fair founder AA Bronson says Paul Chan—who launched our Lowercase P: Artists & Politics series—is the “future of art publishing.” Chan’s Badlands Unlimited “is the tip of the iceberg and there’s an avalanche coming of eBook publishing.”
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A Good Bad Review
Via salon.com
Aug 2012
“You’re not impaling Hitler or protecting the Shire from Saruman,” writes J. Robert Lennon “You’re reviewing a book.” He argues there’s a good way to write a negative review and a bad one. A cardinal rule: “Don’t be a dick.”
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Passings: Remy Charlip
Via nytimes.com
Aug 2012
Remy Charlip, a choreographer and founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, passed away Tuesday at age 83. Also a prolific author of children’s books, he won three Illustrated Book of the Year citations from the NY Times.
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2012’s Worst Sentence
Via mediabistro.com
Aug 2012
Cathy Bryant wins worst sentence in this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which takes its name from the man who penned, “It was a dark and story night…” Her entry muses on whether—when mites are involved—eyes are really the window to the soul.