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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.
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Women & Population
Via creativetimereports.org
Feb 4
Immigrant women are having fewer children, Barbara Crossette, author of two UN population reports, tells Laurie Anderson. “It shows that if you just let women from the developing world have the same rights—or, rather, access—that we have, they make smart decisions.”
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Trisha Steps Down
Via nytimes.com
Feb 2
Contemporary dance pioneer Trisha Brown, 76, has withdrawn from the company that bears her name, citing health concerns. The company will continue to exist, with longtime collaborators Diane Madden and Carolyn Lucas as associate artistic directors.
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“Humbug”
Via telegraph.co.uk
Feb 1
Artist Carl Andre, 77, on Conceptualism: “I think it is humbug myself. That is my own private opinion… I just don’t believe in Joseph Kosuth’s slogan ‘art as idea as idea’—if it is an idea it has never entered the world.”
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The Global Studio
Via creativetime.org
Jan 31
Creative Time announces its new Global Residency artists, who’ll be funded to travel to “explore a burning question that cannot be fully pursued in the studio.” 2013 recipients include Theaster Gates, who’ll travel to Haiti, and performance artist Suzanne Lacy.
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Rolling Ais
Via designboom.com
Jan 31
A new Ai Weiwei collaboration was unveiled at last week’s Art Stage Singapore: a series of round sculptural likenesses of the artist created by Hong Kong-based toy designer Eric So. The title: Aibudao, which translates to “unlovable” in Chinese.
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Shooting the Boom
Via nytimes.com
Jan 31
Alec Soth, whose Walker show From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America is on view at the Cranbrook Museum of Art, discusses photographing the “crazy carnival” of North Dakota’s oil boom for this week’s New York Times Magazine cover in an audio slideshow.
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New Stetson
Via brooklynvegan.com
Jan 31
Sax player Colin Stetson (Sound Horizon 2012) drops a new LP, New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, Apr. 30. Mixed by Ben Frost (who plays a Walker-copresented gig in St. Paul next week), it features four tracks with vocals by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver).