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Museum Day Live
Via hyperallergic.com
Sep 2012
The Walker, along with some 1,500 other museums are free on Saturday. Just click through, select a museum, and get a pair of tickets, gratis. It’s part of the Smithsonian-sponsored Museum Day Live.
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Pop Portraits
Via mediabistro.com
Sep 2012
Campbell Soup Company is taking Warhol-mania one step further with its “Pop Art Portraits.” A new Facebook app turns profile photos into Warholian silkscreens, which—according to the company—could end up as Campbell’s official cover photo.
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JR to DC
Via washingtonpost.com
Sep 2012
DC’s Contemporary Wing, a 14th street modern art gallery, is will welcome a giant “civil-rights themed installation” by French graffiti artist JR. This will mark his first project in Washington and will be based on the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike of ‘68.
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Sacred Images
Via nytimes.com
Sep 2012
From Chris Ofili’s Blessed Virgin Mary to the anti-Muslim film that sparked riots across the Muslim world, images of the sacred “have generated intense conflict,” write the authors of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America.
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Wiley’s World
Via africasacountry.com
Sep 2012
Kehinde Wiley’s World Stage aims to “chart the presence of black and brown people” globally, but Orlando Reade finds its Israel section “superficial, almost naive,” considering its failure to address concerns about the treatment of Africans there.
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Guerrilla Girls Boston
Via boston.com
Sep 2012
Around 11% of works in the Museum of Fine Art’s collection are by women, a fact the Guerrilla Girls are protesting with a new billboard truck recently parked in front of the Boston venue. It reads: “Do women have to be naked to get into Boston museums?”
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Fearless
Via telegraph.co.uk
Sep 2012
“All these women’s works show how art gives women a voice denied them by the society in which they live.” The Telegraph profiles artists featured in a new Saudi exhibition that demonstrates the growing presence of modern art—and women’s art—in the country.
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Ai’s Passport
Via nytimes.com
Sep 2012
Chances are slim that Ai Weiwei will be able to attend the opening of his big Hirshhorn survey next month. “They’re still holding my passport,” he says of Chinese authorities. “They said they want to give it to me but have no clear time schedule for that.”
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Picturing the Dead
Via jmcolberg.com
Sep 2012
Photoblogger Jörg Colberg and artblogger Carolina Miranda (C-Monster, Time) have a thoughtful back-and-forth on whether the news media should show pictures of the dead, like the body of the late ambassador Christopher Stevens. Follow the links.