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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.
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Passings: Allan Arbus
Via nytimes.com
Apr 23
While best known for playing psychologist Maj. Sidney Freedman on M*A*S*H, Allan Arbus—who passed away Monday at 95—started out as a fashion photographer. A photo he took with then-wife Diane Arbus was featured in The Family of Man.
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Haring’s Message
Via creative.arte.tv
Apr 23
Arte Creative and Dailymotion launch a new six-part documentary on Keith Haring. Directed by Maripol, The Message looks at the artist, from his activism—from AIDS to apartheid—to his work with kids (part six features footage shot during a 1984 Walker residency).
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“Tough Cookie”
Via bluebottlecoffee.com
Apr 22
“It’s funny to think that our frozen banana based on a Robert Mapplethorpe photograph didn’t get censored, but that this cookie plate did.” That’s Leah at Oakland’s Blue Bottle Coffee recounting the time they tried to make a Richard Serra-inspired cookie plate.
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State on Trial
Via guardian.co.uk
Apr 16
What kind of state are we in when we start to think about “the state”? In a new op-ed for Creative Time Reports, Ai Weiwei writes about the current state of China: “Manipulation of the truth does not lead to a lack of truth—it’s worse than no truth.”
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175 Fine Fellows
Via gf.org
Apr 12
Photographer Alec Soth is among 175 American and Canadian artists, scholars, and scientists named 2013 Guggenheim Fellows. Others making the cut: filmmaker Marie Losier, composer Myra Melford, artist Coco Fusco, and filmmaker Ira Sachs.
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Frenetic Pop
Via nytimes.com
Apr 12
Claes Oldenburg’s early installations, writes Blake Gopnik in a preview of MoMA’s show (opening Sunday), show “a frenetic, angry, even political side that has been lost in our concentration on him in his later, cheery Pop Art incarnation.”
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Jellyfish Eyes
Via flavorwire.com
Apr 11
Jellyfish Eyes is the name of Takashi Murakami’s wallpaper long a fixture near the Walker Art Lab. It’s also the title of his debut film, hitting theaters Apr. 26, which features an array of “fantasy creatures, from the utterly hideous to the unbelievably adorable.”