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Hennepin Makeover OK’d
Via startribune.com
Feb 8
“To get more people downtown, we don’t need to build a Millennium Park,” says the Walker’s Olga Viso. “We already have great assets, we just need to link them.” The Minneapolis City Council approved a plan to do so Friday and turn Hennepin Ave. into a cultural district.
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Turrell Summer
Via nytimes.com
Feb 8
Three summer shows dedicated to James Turrell—whose art includes the Walker’s Sky Pesher—started out as an idea for a touring exhibition, but the scale of his built light environments suggested different venues (LACMA, MCA Houston, and the Guggenheim) instead.
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Art Foundations
Via brooklynrail.org
Feb 8
His ousting at MOCA and Mike Kelley’s death have opened up a new world for Paul Schimmel, chair of Kelley’s foundation: Artists’ foundations, he writes, will become “among the most important not-for-profit institutions to directly support the arts.”
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Passings: Donald Byrd
Via pitchfork.com
Feb 7
Prolific jazz/R&B trumpeter Donald Byrd has passed away at age 80. After a career-launching stint with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Byrd went on to record more than 40 solo albums, in addition to sideman gigs with the likes of Monk, Coltrane, and Hancock.
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Underground Labyrinths
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 7
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, artist Mark Wallinger has completed the “largest art commission ever.” He’s created 270 unique 2-D mazes, one for each stop in the city’s labyrinthine subway system.
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Completing Courbet
Via telegraph.co.uk
Feb 7
There’s more to the woman in Gustav Courbet’s The Origin of the World, which depicts a closeup of a nude torso: A leading Courbet expert has authenticated a recently discovered companion painting to the erotic 1866 work—and it depicts the woman’s head.
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Ruppersberg on High
Via artinfo.com
Feb 6
Throughout February, Allen Rupersberg’s art is on view on a giant billboard beside New York’s High Line. Can’t get up close to see it? The 18 brightly colored posters in You & Me are similar to those in the artist’s interactive piece in our show The Living Years.
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Designer Coloring Book
Via juxtapoz.com
Feb 6
For its new book series, Apartamento magazine invited artists and designers to create coloring pages for kids. The first three limited-edition books are by Reg Mombassa, Matt Leines, and Geoff McFetridge (who speaks at Insights 2013 next month).
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Origin of Aeron
Via fastcodesign.com
Feb 6
Now a design icon, the Aeron chair had troubled beginnings: conceived of by Don Chadwick and Minnesota’s Bill Stumpf as ergonomic seating for the elderly, the futuristic design was initially a tough sell for manufacturer Herman Miller.