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Moby on LA Architecture
Via moca.org
Feb 19
“Baffling, Byzantine, fantastically uncohesive”: A few words musician/blogger Moby uses to describe Los Angeles’ built environment in a new video promoting Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., running April through July 2013.
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Band’s End
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 19
“Staff Benda Bilili, at least as we have known and loved them for the past few years, are no more.” Andy Morgan reports what happened to the Congolese group of street musicians who rose to international stardom before finances and suspicion effectively did them in.
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Touch the Art
Via washingtonpost.com
Feb 19
When the wall holding Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 C began collapsing Friday at the National Gallery of Art, a group of students was there to catch it. The 10 x 37 ft. mural saw only minimal damage.
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Death Metal
Via dailymail.co.uk
Feb 15
Pedro Reyes’ Disarm project—in which he turns guns into musical instruments—is getting renewed interest in the wake of US gun violence, but the project actually references Ciudad Juarez, where at its worst, firearm deaths hit 10 per day.
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Transparency Scarf
Via hyperallergic.com
Feb 15
Before Wikileaks blew up to become a household name, Metahaven created an identity for the group. Quickly events prompted a new focus—on fundraising for legal battles. Enter a Metahaven-designed Wikileaks scarf that “talks about opacity and transparency.”
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Rural Liberation
Via huffingtonpost.com
Feb 15
After spending most of his career in NYC, sculptor Aaron Spangler’s relationship to rural images in his art has changed since moving to northern Minnesota. “Having the luxury of taking them for granted liberates me from my compulsions towards them.”
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Valentine’s Alternatives
Via sva.edu
Feb 14
Handsome devils, a bleeding-heart message in felt, fake wood type: School of the Visual Arts design staffers Steven Heller, Debbie Millman, Marshall Arisman, and others offer their alternatives to the cutesy pink Valentine.
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Unorginality Examined
Via theatlantic.com
Feb 13
Copying is both timeless and, given the nature of the Internet, particularly contemporary, writes Steven Heller. Which is why New York gallery P!, run by Project Projects’ Prem Krishnamurthy, is tackling the topic during a six-month series.
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Art and Data
Via smu.edu
Feb 13
SMU launched the National Center for Arts Research Wednesday. A collaboration with the Cultural Data Project, the center will analyze arts data to help arts organizations “more deeply engage existing audiences and reach new ones,” according to SMU’s José Bowen.