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Passings: Les Blank
Via blouinartinfo.com
Apr 9
Les Blank, dubbed the “King of the Folkie Filmmakers” by J. Hoberman, has passed away at 77. Celebrating folk communities, from polka lovers to Zydeco phenoms, his films include Burden of Dreams (1982), which chronicled the making of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo.
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Messerschmidt’s Motifs
Via youtube.com
Apr 9
Diamonds, aliens, a Michael Jackson mask, the mirhab motif in Islamic architecture: In a new segment by The Playlist, Andy Messerschmidt discusses the visual influences in his art, including his new Walker installation, Graze Anatomy.
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Haacke and the PM
Via blouinartinfo.com
Apr 9
With the death of Margaret Thatcher, Rozalia Jovanovic looks at the flap over Hans Haacke’s 1984 Taking Stock (unfinished), a portrait of the PM that features plates bearing the faces of campaign ad men and artworld bigwigs, Charles and Maurice Saatchi.
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Assayas on the ’70s
Via brooklynrail.org
Apr 8
Olivier Assayas (Carlos) on the ’70s: “You stepped out of the old world and into a parallel one where you could be yourself and do something no other generation has done since: experiment with your own life, your own fate. And there have been a lot of casualties.”
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“Be Free, Big Organs!”
Via bebopified.com
Apr 8
Recapping our Zorn @ 60 music marathon Saturday, Pamela Espeland writes on John Zorn’s solo midnight organ concert at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral: “It was dramatic, deeply spiritual and thrilling. Let’s start a movement. More improvised music in churches!”
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Soundings
Via nytimes.com
Apr 5
Sound is “getting recognized as a frontier,” says Barbara London, who’s curating MoMA’s upcoming Soundings: A Contemporary Score. The museum’s first big sound art show, it features recordings of, among other things, flying bats and Taiwanese factory.
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Nakedly Subversive
Via thestranger.com
Apr 5
In the “sweetly subversive” Untitled Feminist Show—a Walker commission now being performed at Seattle’s On the Boards—Young Jean Lee “grabs cliches, wrestles them into submission, then makes them tell jokes,” writes critic Brendan Kiley.
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Passings: Roger Ebert
Via suntimes.com
Apr 4
“No good film is too long,” wrote Roger Ebert. “No bad movie is short enough.” The influential film critic, who visited the Walker in 1999 for dialogue with Werner Herzog, passed away Thursday at age 70 after a long battle with cancer.
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Tumblr Art
Via rhizome.org
Apr 4
For its 2013–14 grant cycle, Rhizome has a new category: Tumblr-based art. Three grants of $1,000 to $5,000 will go to “projects from emerging artists engaged with Tumblr.” Jury members include Laurie Anderson and Massimiliano Gioni, among others.