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Toyo Ito’s Pritzker
Via latimes.com
Mar 18
Japanese architect Toyo Ito, featured in the Walker’s 1986 show Tokyo: Form and Spirit, has won this year’s Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most presigious honor. The 71-year old is best know for his Sendai Mediatheque, a seven-story glass box completed in 2001.
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Big Air Package
Via cbc.ca
Mar 18
Billed as the world’s largest indoor art installation, Christo’s first project since the 2009 death of wife Jeanne-Claude is Big Air Package, an inflated fabric dome measuring 70 meters high and 50 meters wide installed in Germany’s Gasometer Oberhausen.
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New Conservation
Via bloomberg.com
Mar 15
The work of the art conservator has changed since the heyday of frescoes and oils. Now the art fixer’s tools can range from specially sourced elephant dung (to repair an Ofili) to out-of-production fluorescent bulbs (to remedy a burnt-out Flavin).
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Haeg on Home
Via thelabmagazine.com
Mar 15
With Fritz Haeg’s “At Home in the City” residency launching May 11, The Lab films the artist in his geodesic dome as he discusses “home,” which he says “represents culture and society at the cellular level” and “the place where most people can effect immediate change.”
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Quiet Formalism
Via badatsports.com
Mar 14
Bad at Sports’ Eric Asboe’s visits to the Twin Cities included looks at two exhibitions that represent “spare, quiet returns to formalism,” the Walker’s Painter Painter and the Soap Factory’s group show R.U.R.
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Francis on Art
Via artlyst.com
Mar 14
Pope Francis’ stance on contemporary art? Not good, if his actions in 2004 are any indicator. As a cardinal in Argentina, Jorge Bergoglio dubbed an exhibition of works by León Ferrari “blasphemous” and successfully lobbied for its censorship.
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Form(s) and Content
Via artinamericamagazine.com
Mar 14
For its Ai Weiwei show, According to What?, the Hirshhorn presented its catalogue content two ways—as a $40 book or a $5 magazine. “The result was over 9,000 magazines sold, far more than the number of catalogues that usually sell for any given show.”
