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Museum Politics
Via theartnewspaper.com
May 19
The new Palestinian Museum scheduled to open in Birzeit next year, is only political, says curator Jack Persekian, “in the sense that it provides spaces and opportunities for Palestinians to shape their own historical narrative and to engage with it.”
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Milk Map
Via rawstory.com
May 17
For a new show in Hong Kong, Ai Weiwei has created a map of China using 1,815 cans of baby formula. After six children died from melamine-tainted milk in China in 2008, many on the mainland have turned to Hong Kong in search of new sources of milk powder.
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Frogtown Farm
Via tcdailyplanet.net
May 16
With only 0.006 acres of green space per child—the city’s lowest—St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood is due for some greening up. And it’s happening: community members are converting 12 acres into an urban demonstration farm, nature sanctuary, and rec area.
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Kudos to Kempson
Via pwcenter.org
May 16
Sibyl Kempson—who collaborated with Elevator Repair Service on this week’s preview performances of Fondly, Collette Richland—has been awarded the 2013–14 McKnight National Residency and Commission from Minneapolis’ Playwright Center.
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Temporary Museum
Via artforum.com
May 15
In curating the 2013 Venice Biennale, Massimiliano Gioni isn’t creating an “anti-Biennale,” as Francesco Bonami put it. With The Encyclopedic Palace, he’s aiming for “a temporary museum more than simply a show that captures the supposed zeitgeist.”
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Inflatable Joyride
Via good.is
May 15
For Friday’s National Bike to Work Day, may we suggest some artful garb? At the heart of Aeolian Rides, a nine-year project by artist Jessica Findlay, are inflatable outfits that billow in the wind, creating pedal-powered sculpture.
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Wojnarowicz Writes
Via galleristny.com
May 14
NYU’s Fales Library has digitized David Wojnarowicz’s journals. Dating from 1971 to 1991, the year before the artist died from AIDS-related complications, they chronicle everything from a 1971 Outward Bound trip to his time in New York.
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Roden Creator
Via latimes.com
May 13
Perhaps the greatest progress made over the last decade on James Turrell’s Roden Crater: The artist has finished detailed plans so the in-progress earthwork—already nearly 40 years in the making—can be finished without his involvement, if necessary.
