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Tom Hanks of China
Via artinfo.com
Mar 5
“Ai Weiwei is the Tom Hanks of Chinese cinema,” says cinematographer Christopher Doyle (Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love), who’s working with the artist on a new project. Ai is “so fucking beautiful on film because he’s so solid, he doesn’t give a shit.”
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Handy Decanter
Via juxtapoz.com
Mar 5
Geoff McFetridge—who designed the art now going up on construction fencing outside the Walker—unveils a new project, a decanter for Bushmill’s Irish Whiskey featuring his iconic hands imagery. The hand-blown bottles are part of an edition of 75.
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Abraham’s List
Via artforum.com
Mar 4
A new top-10 list by Abraham Cruzvillegas—whose show The Autoconstrucción Suites opens at the Walker Mar. 23—points out cultural moments from Werner Herzog’s The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) to Mexico’s Stridentism movement, launched in the 1920s.
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Passings: Thomas McEvilley
Via jacket2.org
Mar 4
Scholar, critic, translator, and poet Thomas McEvilley has passed away at age 73 from complications of cancer. A prolific author, he penned numerous volumes including 2010’s Yves the Provocateur: Yves Klein and Twentieth-Century Art.
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Applied Design
Via colbertnation.com
Feb 28
Come for the jokes, stay for the applied design: MoMA curator Paola Antonelli matched wits with Stephen Colbert Wednesday, highlighting objects from a vase made by bees (through “slow prototyping”) to Massoud Hassani’s landmine-exploding “dandelion.”
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Yorke GIF
Via pitchfork.com
Feb 28
For electronic supergroup Atoms For Peace’s new video, “Ingenue,” Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke (AFP vocalist) delves into contemporary dance, pairing with dancer Fukiko Takase. Like many a Yorke dance move, this one, too, is now available in GIF form.
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Culture of Incarceration
Via creativetimereports.org
Feb 27
Photographing both Supermax prison complexes and suburban developments from the air, Christoph Gielen began noticing “striking” similarities in planning forms, which raise questions about the idea of “prisons as our new mass housing.”
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Gallagher in GIFs
Via art21.tumblr.com
Feb 26
“This idea of repetition and revision is central to my process—this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries,” says Ellen Gallagher, whose work is in our collection. A fitting way to look at her work? The repetitive GIF format!
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Crowdsourcing Gold
Via wired.com
Feb 26
An Oscar first: Sunday’s awards show featured the first Academy Award for a crowdsourced film. Inocente, a short documentary about homeless 15-year-old artist Inocente Izucar, took home a prize. Its funding included $52K raised last summer on Kickstarter.