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Eyetracking
Via art21.org
Jan 9
Alfred Yarbus’ work tracking the way a viewer’s eye moves about an Ilya Repin painting suggests “the eyes gravitate towards the clues that help decode the meaning of a painting.” Which prompts a question: how does the eye deal with abstract art?
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Picasso Vandal Surrenders
Via chron.com
Jan 9
On the lam since vandalizing Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair at the Menil Collection in June, Uriel Landeros surrendered to officials at the US/Mexico border Tuesday. An artist, he explains his act: “I did this to turn heads.”
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Bowie’s Back
Via bbc.co.uk
Jan 8
Celebrating his 66th birthday, David Bowie released the new single “Where Are We Now?” Tuesday. Teasing a new album due in March, the tune is accompanied by a video directed by Tony Oursler (last at the Walker in 2006 for Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty).
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Buses by Baldessari
Via latimes.com
Jan 8
Inspired by a Sol LeWitt rubber stamp, John Baldessari started making stamps of his own, bearing imperative messages. One—“Learn to dream”—now appears on 12 LA buses, in English and Spanish, as part of the Arts Matter campaign.
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Koolhaas Curates Venice
Via architectsjournal.co.uk
Jan 8
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has been confirmed as the next curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale. He says he aims to “give a new look” to architecture’s basic elements “to see if we can discover something new about architecture.”
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Looking Glass
Via nytimes.com
Jan 8
“One doesn’t usually know where ideas come from,” says Jasper Johns. But he knows what inspired the set elements he made for Merce Cunningham’s Walkaround Time (part of the Walker collection): looking at a booklet featuring line drawings of Duchamp’s The Large Glass.
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Passings: Ada Louise Huxtable
Via nytimes.com
Jan 8
“Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a part of the public dialogue,” said critic Paul Goldberger of Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, who died Monday at age 91.
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Digital Arts
Via pewinternet.org
Jan 7
A new Pew study, “Arts Organizations and Digital Technologies,” finds that of more than 1,200 arts organizations surveyed 77% agreed that digital technologies “played a major role in broadening the boundaries of what is considered art.”
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The Power of Non-Experts
Via hyperallergic.com
Jan 4
“[I]f we spend less time dismissing non-experts and more time listening, we can learn something,” writes MoMA’s Desi Gonzalez. “I dream of a world of grassroots art interpretations, that values the perceptions of a novice as much as a Ph.D.”