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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.
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“So, Thank You, Dan.”
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 5
Jenny Holzer on her breakthrough moment: “Putting up anonymous street posters around lower Manhattan. Dan Graham, an artist I admire, noticed them, talked to people about them, and finally figured out that I was the person doing them. So thank you, Dan.”
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Iris Reimagined
Via getty.edu
Feb 5
The Getty has relaunched its Iris blog as an online magazine featuring original writing, “Art News From Around the Web,” and the new social media series “Getty Voices,” which includes weekly topical discussions on the site, Facebook, and Twitter. Congrats!
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Woody Updated
Via cynthiahopkins.com
Feb 5
Cynthia Hopkins, whose Walker-co-comissioned This Clement World opens at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York Tuesday, offers a song from the music-theater piece—a climate-crisis reworking of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.”
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Homage in Tape?
Via twitter.com
Feb 4
Pepsi’s Super Bowl commercial featuring a guy duct-taped to the ceiling struck Paul C. Ha, director of MIT’s List Center, as familiar. It’s a lot like Maurizio Cattelan’s A Perfect Day (1999), in which he duct-taped a Milan gallerist to the wall.