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Royalties Ruling
Via nytimes.com
May 21
A federal judge in California has ruled unconstitutional a law that gives artists a cut when their art is resold. Chuck Close and other artists had filed a class-action suit against Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and eBay over not being paid for past sales.
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Byers Promoted
Via post-gazette.com
May 18
Dan Byers, former Walker curatorial fellow and a co-curator of the 2013 Carnegie International, has been named the Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art. He’s the first appointee to the new endowed position.
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Music and Magritte
Via brainpickings.org
May 17
Like Warhol after him, René Magritte paid his bills through commercial work early in his career. His stylized sheet music covers from the mid-1920—including one for Fernand Rousseau’s Marche des Snobs—predated album cover art by nearly two decades.
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John Waters, Hitchhiker
Via gawker.com
May 16
While driving in Ohio recently, members of the band Here We Go Magic noticed a familiar-looking hitch-hiker on highway on-ramp. Circling back, they picked up none other than filmmaker, artist, and curator of our Absentee Landlord show John Waters.
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The Warhol Crater
Via nasa.gov
May 16
Via Gallerist NY we learn that NASA has named 23 of Mercury’s “impact craters” after art figures. In addition to Nureyev, Nabakov and Alvin Ailey, visual artists like Magritte and Warhol are also honored with namesake divots on the planet closest the sun.
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Kissing Kusama
Via artinfo.com
May 16
“Part memoir, part critique, part artistic statement,” Yayoi Kusama’s new autobiography is a unique if “weird” book, addressing themes of mental illness, poverty, and sexuality, including a comical if sad anecdote about making out with Joseph Cornell.
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The Local Scene
Via artinamericamagazine.com
May 16
As an Art in America “roving eye,” Walker Art Center chief curator Darsie Alexander looks at the Minneapolis-St. Paul art scene and her studio visits with artists Cameron Gainer, Katherine Turczan, and Nate Young.
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Back to the Water
Via guardian.co.uk
May 16
Falling in a lake at age 6 was a seminal experience for Bill Viola. “I saw the most beautiful world I’d ever seen: fish, shafts of light, plants waving in the breeze. That’s why my art has so much to do with water—because I dream about going back to that place.”
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Shock Art
Via washingtonpost.com
May 14
Shocked by the Time cover bearing Martin Schoeller’s image of a mom breastfeeding her 3-year old? Then steer clear of “Roman Charity,” a tale interpreted by Rubens and Caravaggio that shows a daughter breastfeeding her jailed father to save him from starvation.