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Gramsci Monument
Via gramsci-monument.com
May 3
Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument, to run July 1 thru Sept. 15, will host a range of activities—including a radio station—from a structure on the grounds of a Bronx housing development. The Dia-backed project is the last of his philosopher-based monuments.
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Totally Uncool
Via hyperallergic.com
May 3
Usually silent on ripoffs of her art, Barbara Kruger comments on a suit by clothing brand Supreme (with its Krugeresque logo) against designer Leah McSweeney. Of the “uncool jokers” involved, she writes, “I’m waiting for them all to sue me for copyright infringement.”
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Art Formula
Via latimes.com
May 2
Spite doesn’t seem to underpin art in William Powhida’s new LA show, which apes artworld “formulas” from Cattelan-style taxidermy to Richterian abstraction, writes Holly Myers. He sincerely asks, “How does the art world work and how should we feel about that?”
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On Being Curated
Via frieze.com
May 1
What’s it feel like being curated? Eight artists weigh in on the rise of the curator and what it means, including W.A.G.E., Slavs and Tatars, and Daniel Buren, who revisits his 1972 statement “Exhibiting Exhibitions.”
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Mao-Free
Via artdaily.com
Apr 29
Some of Andy Warhol’s most iconic works are absent from a just-opened show at Shanghai’s Power Station of Art—his portraits of Chairman Mao. It was a “mutual decision” between the center and the Andy Warhol Museum, which loaned some 300 works for the exhibition.
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Jerry’s Girl
Via animalnewyork.com
Apr 29
Fresh off an appeals court ruling in his favor (mostly) in the copyright-infringement case Cariou vs. Prince, Richard Price is out with another work of appropriation: a composite made from all 57 of the women Jerry Seinfeld dated on his long-running sitcom.
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Prince Prevails
Via hollywoodreporter.com
Apr 25
Overturning a March ruling, an appeals court judge has found that Richard Prince largely did not infringe on the copyright of Patrick Cariou in his “Canal Zone” paintings: his use of Cariou’s photos of Rastafarians was deemed “fair use” in 25 of 30 cases.
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Turner 2013
Via guardian.co.uk
Apr 25
“A streak of subversive humour” runs through the work of artists named to the 2013 Turner Prize. Congrats to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tino Sehgal, Laure Prouvost and David Shrigley, who’ve been nominated for the £40,000 prize.
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Rising Tides
Via blouinartinfo.com
Apr 24
Facing perilously rising sea levels, Tuvalu and the Maldives are using their pavilions at the 2013 Venice Biennale to highlight climate change. The island nations will feature projects that both poetically and concretely address the crisis.