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80 Years of Paint
Via frieze.com
Jan 16
Carmen Herrera, now 98, has been painting daily for 80 years, but of all the work she’s made there are “not too many” she still likes. “Sometimes I’m very pleased, sometimes not so pleased, but it takes me a little while to know that a painting is garbage.”
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CVA to Close
Via cva.edu
Jan 16
After 89 years, St. Paul’s College of Visual Arts has announced it’ll close on June 30. President Ann Ledy cites “the impact of the continuing economic downturn that began four years ago.” An agreement is in the works for students to finish their studies at MCAD.
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Lucky Dragons’ Sources
Via tate.org.uk
Jan 16
In a recent edition of “The Source,” artist Doug Aitken talks with experimental music duo Lucky Dragons (Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara, who visited the Walker in 2009) about sonic and emotional resonance, looping, and music as a form of research.
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Sneeze-Free
Via hyperallergic.com
Jan 16
Fear not, allergy sufferers! Wolfgang Laib’s 18x21 ft. work Pollen from Hazelnut, opening at MoMA Jan. 23, shouldn’t trigger sneezes. There have been “no known incidents” in 36 years of Laib’s use of pollen, according to a report from (fittingly) Hyperallergic.
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Passings: Nagisa Oshima
Via fandor.com
Jan 15
“Japan’s greatest living filmmaker,” Nagisa Oshima, has passed away at age 80. Subject of a 2008 retrospective at the Walker, Oshima’s films include In the Realm of the Senses (1976) and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), which starred David Bowie.
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Beasts in the Gallery
Via artinfo.com
Jan 15
Among items to appear in an exhibition at Contemporary Art Center New Orleans is Hushpuppy’s boat from Beasts of the Southern Wild. Opening after the Oscars, the show will feature the creative work of director Benh Zeitlin and his Court 13 Pictures colleagues.
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In Praise of Hatchet Jobs
Via guardian.co.uk
Jan 15
“Art reviews are getting way too polite.” Jonathan Jones says the art world needs its own Hatchet Job of the Year prize, which praises fierce literature reviews. “Wouldn’t it actually be fun … to burst a few inflated reputations?”
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Razing Picasso?
Via theartnewspaper.com
Jan 14
As officials debate the fate of government buildings damaged by a 2011 car bomb in Oslo, the fate of a series of concrete murals by Picasso is in the balance. Discussions are underway about how or if to preserve art created for the now-uninhabitable buildings.
