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Bamuthi = Best
Via citypages.com
Dec 2011
“Approachable and avant-garde,” performing artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph is one of the year’s best artists, writes hip hop artist Guante, who praises Bamuthi’s skill in using “art as an entry point to engage in real, sustainable community activism.”
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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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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.