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“When Reality Isn’t Dramatic Enough”
Via bagnewsnotes.com
Feb 22
An award-winning photo by Magnum’s Paolo Pellegrin doesn’t depict what the caption says it does, writes Michael Shaw, who sparks a discussion in comments and elsewhere about representation, captions, and plagiarism.
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A Minnesota Slant
Via featureshoot.com
Feb 21
Taking its title from Bernd and Hilla Becher’s work, photographer Cameron Wittig’s Duluth Typologies messes with perception by squaring hillside homes in the northern Minnesota city with the expected horizon.
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Lynch on Lithography
Via latimes.com
Feb 21
In a new mini-documentary, David Lynch visits Idem Paris, a French lithography shop that’s worked with artists from Matisse to Duchamp to Raymond Pettibon. Shot in black-and-white, the wordless short serves as a meditation on the analog mechanics of printing.
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DJ Dinos
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 20
Artist Dinos Chapman is “terrified” how Luftbobler, his debut album of “experimental ambient electronic noise,” will be received. “I can’t hide behind my brother. Jake and I do this thing where I can blame it on him or he can blame it on me. This is just me.”
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Walker on Django
Via chicagotribune.com
Feb 20
Kara Walker on Django Unchained: “As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win—or just not be so sad! It’s nice to have a badass black hero, though I left telling a friend I wished Django had been a women.”
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Touch the Art
Via washingtonpost.com
Feb 19
When the wall holding Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 C began collapsing Friday at the National Gallery of Art, a group of students was there to catch it. The 10 x 37 ft. mural saw only minimal damage.
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Death Metal
Via dailymail.co.uk
Feb 15
Pedro Reyes’ Disarm project—in which he turns guns into musical instruments—is getting renewed interest in the wake of US gun violence, but the project actually references Ciudad Juarez, where at its worst, firearm deaths hit 10 per day.
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Rural Liberation
Via huffingtonpost.com
Feb 15
After spending most of his career in NYC, sculptor Aaron Spangler’s relationship to rural images in his art has changed since moving to northern Minnesota. “Having the luxury of taking them for granted liberates me from my compulsions towards them.”
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Tweeting About Curating
Via lttds.org
Feb 12
In advance of its February 19 conversation with Dia’s Yasmil Raymond (formerly of the Walker) on the evolving role of the curator, Latitudes is seeking questions via Twitter. Use the hashtag #opencurating to be part of the Barcelona-based event.