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Art & Privilege
Via guardian.co.uk
Dec 2012
Turner winner Elizabeth Price says her career would’ve been impossible without education and public funding— both of which are imperiled in the UK. She fears art will become “available only to privileged people, and expressive only of that experience.”
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Culture in Abandoned Spaces
Via bigredandshiny.com
Dec 2012
A day after Theaster Gates was named one of 50 new USA Fellows, BR&S runs a Q&A with Gates on his dOCUMENTA (13) project, 12 ballads for Huguenot House, which he says is about “the possibility of culture in abandoned spaces.”
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The Military Is Present
Via artnews.com
Dec 2012
Artists, museums, and public art groups are increasingly looking to veterans—both to tell stories of war and as valuable audience members. Efforts range from Nina Berman’s photos of disfigured vets to a listening station staffed by veterans in Times Square.
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Whitney Picks
Via nytimes.com
Nov 2012
Three outside curators have been tapped to curate the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Stuart Comer (Tate), Anthony Elms (ICA Philadelphia), and Michelle Grabner (Art Institute of Chicago) will be advised by WhiBi 2012 curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders.
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Margolles Honored
Via guardian.co.uk
Nov 2012
Teresa Margolles, whose work has viscerally addressed drug-related crime in her native Mexico, has been named winner of this year’s Artes Mundi prize. Judges of the £40,000 award cited “the sophistication of her work in confronting an ongoing human tragedy”.
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Doonan’s 8 Theories
Via slate.com
Nov 2012
Slate style columnist and longtime Barney’s window dresser Simon Doonan offers theories on “why the art world is so loathsome.” In his sights: Art Basel Miami, “the growing mania for melanging fashion with art,” and the art world’s coziness with one-percenters.
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Kahlo’s Closet
Via dailymail.co.uk
Nov 2012
The Blue House in Mexico City is offering a new way to see Frida Kahlo’s life and art—through an exhibition of her prosthetic legs, dresses, and corsets, including one similar to the back brace she wore in her self-portrait The Broken Column.
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Beck’s Beer
Via gawker.com
Nov 2012
Glenn Beck—yes, he’s still around—has made his own Andres Serrano-style artwork by photographing an Obama toy in a jar of beer (initially he claimed it was urine). It’s his reaction to an artist who painted an image of the president crucified.
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Critiquing Johnson
Via artinfo.com
Nov 2012
Glenn Ligon and Coco Fusco are among the 800+ signers of a petition to the NY Times criticizing Ken Johnson’s writing: “Using irresponsible generalities, Johnson compares women and African-American artists to white male artists, only to find them lacking.”