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Rockaway Recovery
Via galleristny.com
Feb 25
Aiming to “foster the creative debate on urban recovery after Hurricane Sandy,” MoMA is hosting a call for ideas to sustainably rebuild the boardwalk, housing, social spaces, and other fixtures of Rockaway Beach. Deadline is March 15.
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“When Reality Isn’t Dramatic Enough”
Via bagnewsnotes.com
Feb 22
An award-winning photo by Magnum’s Paolo Pellegrin doesn’t depict what the caption says it does, writes Michael Shaw, who sparks a discussion in comments and elsewhere about representation, captions, and plagiarism.
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Fade to White
Via hyperallergic.com
Feb 21
A SoHo storefront filled with records might give vinyl collectors pause: It’s stocked only with copies of the Beatles’ White Album, and none are for sale. An installation by Rutherford Chang, We Buy White Albums chronicles the use and abuse of the 1968 classic.
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A Minnesota Slant
Via featureshoot.com
Feb 21
Taking its title from Bernd and Hilla Becher’s work, photographer Cameron Wittig’s Duluth Typologies messes with perception by squaring hillside homes in the northern Minnesota city with the expected horizon.
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Lynch on Lithography
Via latimes.com
Feb 21
In a new mini-documentary, David Lynch visits Idem Paris, a French lithography shop that’s worked with artists from Matisse to Duchamp to Raymond Pettibon. Shot in black-and-white, the wordless short serves as a meditation on the analog mechanics of printing.
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In Praise of Public
Via vice.com
Feb 20
Showcasing “the wonderfulness of public domain material” has become a life calling for Adam Green, who cofounded The Public Domain review, a website curating and contextualizing the best of digitized out-of-copyright imagery, film, music, and text.
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DJ Dinos
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 20
Artist Dinos Chapman is “terrified” how Luftbobler, his debut album of “experimental ambient electronic noise,” will be received. “I can’t hide behind my brother. Jake and I do this thing where I can blame it on him or he can blame it on me. This is just me.”
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Global Post
Via post.at.moma.org
Feb 20
MoMA’s post, an “online journal, archive, exhibition space, and open forum” aimed at exploring “multiple and alternative narratives of art’s histories,” launched Friday as part of its Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives in a Global Age initiative.
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Walker on Django
Via chicagotribune.com
Feb 20
Kara Walker on Django Unchained: “As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win—or just not be so sad! It’s nice to have a badass black hero, though I left telling a friend I wished Django had been a women.”