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Turrell Summer
Via nytimes.com
Feb 8
Three summer shows dedicated to James Turrell—whose art includes the Walker’s Sky Pesher—started out as an idea for a touring exhibition, but the scale of his built light environments suggested different venues (LACMA, MCA Houston, and the Guggenheim) instead.
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Art Foundations
Via brooklynrail.org
Feb 8
His ousting at MOCA and Mike Kelley’s death have opened up a new world for Paul Schimmel, chair of Kelley’s foundation: Artists’ foundations, he writes, will become “among the most important not-for-profit institutions to directly support the arts.”
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Underground Labyrinths
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 7
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, artist Mark Wallinger has completed the “largest art commission ever.” He’s created 270 unique 2-D mazes, one for each stop in the city’s labyrinthine subway system.
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Completing Courbet
Via telegraph.co.uk
Feb 7
There’s more to the woman in Gustav Courbet’s The Origin of the World, which depicts a closeup of a nude torso: A leading Courbet expert has authenticated a recently discovered companion painting to the erotic 1866 work—and it depicts the woman’s head.
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Ruppersberg on High
Via artinfo.com
Feb 6
Throughout February, Allen Rupersberg’s art is on view on a giant billboard beside New York’s High Line. Can’t get up close to see it? The 18 brightly colored posters in You & Me are similar to those in the artist’s interactive piece in our show The Living Years.
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“So, Thank You, Dan.”
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 5
Jenny Holzer on her breakthrough moment: “Putting up anonymous street posters around lower Manhattan. Dan Graham, an artist I admire, noticed them, talked to people about them, and finally figured out that I was the person doing them. So thank you, Dan.”
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Homage in Tape?
Via twitter.com
Feb 4
Pepsi’s Super Bowl commercial featuring a guy duct-taped to the ceiling struck Paul C. Ha, director of MIT’s List Center, as familiar. It’s a lot like Maurizio Cattelan’s A Perfect Day (1999), in which he duct-taped a Milan gallerist to the wall.
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“Humbug”
Via telegraph.co.uk
Feb 1
Artist Carl Andre, 77, on Conceptualism: “I think it is humbug myself. That is my own private opinion… I just don’t believe in Joseph Kosuth’s slogan ‘art as idea as idea’—if it is an idea it has never entered the world.”
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The Global Studio
Via creativetime.org
Jan 31
Creative Time announces its new Global Residency artists, who’ll be funded to travel to “explore a burning question that cannot be fully pursued in the studio.” 2013 recipients include Theaster Gates, who’ll travel to Haiti, and performance artist Suzanne Lacy.